With just a month to go until the Premier League starts again for Southampton, Saints fans can really start to get excited.
Some impressive displays in the second half of the 2018/19 season saw Ralph Hasenhuttl making his mark on his side and perhaps providing a look to the future.
There will still be a lot of work to do for the Austrian to fully implement his strategies at St Mary’s, but this pre-season will be an ideal time to do that.
Saints fans will hope that the result is a more comfortable top-flight finish than the 17th and 16th of the last two seasons.
Hasenhuttl preferred the use of the 4-2-2-2 system when at RB Leipzig and it produced impressive results, so that could be what he goes to for this upcoming campaign.
To familiarise his players with the formation though, he will have to outline a few things; some of which he started to use when he arrived in December: