Southampton fans can lose sleep for a while if the arriving Will Smallbone deal fails to meet Southampton's handshake.
Southampton fans got seated for this fresh campaign by locking faith in four outstanding performers, in as many positions. Among them, the Saints have been proven over optimistic on everyone not named Gavin Bazunu.
Jay Robinson is driving the majority of decent attacks Southampton are creating, and that list's briefly omitted, Mateus Fernandes as well as Taylor Harwood-Bellis are thriving in their usual nature. If some pundits were to place the "can be sold" banner on all others exchanging ball-touches with the above ones, the fanbase might not remove those tags for seven days straight.
Notably, Will Smallbone for the urgency Southampton have demonstrated with their actions. The 25-year-old has only a couple of counterparts to beat and force himself into the midfield three, but the kicker is that Still stops counting his box-to-box midfielders after the count of two.
Offloading Will Smallbone's won't hurt Southampton in sporting aspects
For a second, Smallbone and his ex-team Stoke feels like an everyone wins transfer, but Mark Robins opinion may voice some no-thanks message for everyone hailing from St. Mary's.
Inspite of these struggles, transfer journalist Alan Nixon has spilled the ink on a £7.5m package coming from one of the division's most signing-friendly club Wrexham.
One showdown has already been completed with Wrexham, so only one leftover game isn't worth for Saints to bother about strengthening the latter. What bad can happen than Smallbone beating Southampton there, as the reverse tie is falling in April where Will Still will have either moved his troops inside top-six or would have been moved away from the club entirely.
Smallbone getting offloaded at that paycheck mark should be the end of story, here, but other twists can't be chalked off yet.