Saints are in competition with Stoke City for Barcelona youngster Adama Traore according to the Spanish media
Stoke have already signed Marc Muniesa and Bojan Krkić from Barcelona's youth system and are said to have been interested in Adama for some time. Southampton have recently added themselves to the list along with Manchester City, say Mundo Deportivo.
Traore is part of Barcelona's B squad and has yet to break into the first team set up although he did play one La Liga game for them as well as a Champions League game back in 2013/14 season both as a second half substitute.
Ronald Koeman is known to be looking for a genuine winger and Adama as he is known fits that bil., The young winger has a buyout clause of €15m, which converts to around £10.5m, that may be enough to hold interest off for now but the player's desire for progress could push Barcelona into a loan, if he impressed on loan then that £10.5m clause could be more appealing, although Ronald Koeman might be wary after the Alderweireld situation.
But a loan might be the answer to Koeman's dilemma, his problem is he has a lot of attacking options to hand already, if he were to spend big on say the likes of Andros Townsend, the player would probably not get in the side so would be an expensive luxury.
Adama however would be a cheap alternative and add to the armoury for the season, yes of course there is no guarantee that we might be able to sign him if he were to be an outstanding success, but Koeman knows that the loan system is there to be used and signing a player at the end of the loan isnt always the end game, its sometimes about plugging a gap for a short time and Adama might just do that.
The problem though is that Stoke and also Everton who have also been linked might offer a better chance for the player to play games and that could hand the advantage to either club over our good selves.