Every Saints fan will tell you that there are only two positions that need immediate attention and neither are in the midfield, so why do the media keep linking us with every available midfielder on the continent.
Stop any Saints supporter in the street and ak him where Saints need to strengthen and they will all tell you we need to buy a striker and a central defender, so why given the fact that we already have six candidates for the three central midfield positions and that Claude Puel does not like wingers do the media continue to link us with virtually every midfielder in the game ?
Latest to be linked are Yoric Ravet and Lorenzo Pellegrini and that is just this morning's latest links.
Ravet is currently at Young Boys in Switzerland, at 27 Ravet has kicked about the French and Swiss leagues and it has only been in the last couple of years that he has made any sort of impact.
I would say that although Saints and Swansea are being touted as possible suitors, it will be alas poor Yoric for a move to St Mary's and that this is just his agent trying to stir up interest in the player to try and engineer a pay day for his client.
Pellegrini is a different matter, although it is hard to see where he would fit in at Saints at present. Currently as Sassuolo in Italy he is very much the latest wonderkid and supposedly being monitored by the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City with Saints and Tottenham about to go head to head for his signature.
Normally he would be the type of player we would be chasing, but Saints fans would rather hear news about a striker or defender.
But if we did go for him we would have to pay the 10 million euro buy out clause in his contract when he joined Sassuolo from Roma in 2015, that in itself is not a problem, but he would be one for the future rather than going straight into our side now I would suspect.
This one could come to fruition , but with his club not keen to sell in this window it is more likely to happen in the summer.
But these two being linked still asks the question why we are being linked with so many midfielders, it is not a priority area for us.
The reason is that we are seen on the continent as a progressive club who will give players a chance, Pellegrini although being linked with the big clubs will know that he would be unlikely to get in their starting XI or even on the bench whereas at Saints he would have the opportunity to impress and get in the side.