Russell Martin prefers playing possession football that a pressing game, but next season he might be playing a Prassing game after the latest rumours coming out of mainline Europe.
The player said to be in Saints sights along with Bologna & Atalanta according to football-italia.net is Sturm Graz left-sided wingback Alexander Prass.
The 23 year has played 90 games in the Austrian Bundesliga since joining in 2021, he has notched 10 goals and 16 assists.
Add to that 23 games in European competition as well as a few more in the domestic cups in Austria and he has a fir bit of experience.
He made his debut for Austria in November 2022 and played in all four games played by his country at the Euro's this summer, he didn't score but did have an assist in each of the wins over Poland & the Netherlands.
With two years left on his contract Sturm Graz and the player have decisions to make, the asking price is said to be around £10-12 million including performance related add ons.
At that price it could well be of interest to Southampton, who tend to do their best transfer business when they find up and coming players who are under the radar and in the £12-15 million bracket, for some reason when we go over that level of transfer fee, we seem to find players who don't quite work out.