Transfer speculation that both Sadio Mane & Victor Wanyama would be the subject of bids from Man Utd & Spurs respectively have led to panic in the ranks of the supporters.
Ronald Koeman has once again emphatically stated that no one will be leaving Southampton Football Club in the final days of the transfer window, but no matter how much Koeman or the club themselves state this, certain areas of the media continue to try and make headlines out of little actual substance.
In the case of Sadio Mane to Manchester United it seems that this rumour was put about by the United Chairman who had lost out on signing Pedro from Barcelona and was trying to placate his own supporters by making out that he had a plan B, this has had the opposite effect in that Man Utd fans are questioning him even more and wondering why the club are preparing to pay the same amount for in their words "a virtually unknown Senagalese" that they could have for a Brazilian who is at the peak of his career and has won it all.
In the case of Tottenham the Wanyama rumour again has little substance, but it is no coincidence that there appears to be no love lost between Saints and Tottenham and that being the case Mauricio Pochettino himself has never shown any real affection for Saints even during his spell here and this could perhaps be at the root of the rumour.
But Koeman is a man of his word who tells it how it is and he is saying that no one is going and there was never any doubt of either player being left out of the side at Watford.
"I don’t make changes due to speculation. It’s about the strategy we have as a club and again - no-one is for sale. They will continue to be Southampton players. That’s everybody.”
You cannot have it put more bluntly that that, today's transfer market is fueled by the internet and social media and that leads supporters to panic at every rumour of a player leaving and salivate at every rumour of a player arriving, the truth is most rumours don't come to fruition for one reason or another, if they are going to happen they will happen and fans have to realise that Saints do have a strategy going forward, sometimes that strategy will go off course for one reason or another, but that doesn't mean we are in meltdown we are just in stormy seas.