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As a saints fan it pains me to look at the list of players who have been and gone over the last ten years, a credit to our ability to either grow players or find relatively cheap gems, this team would do OK I reckon....
a few years out of date but this article talks a little about our "black box" https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37954971
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Presumably it's the scouts who establish that they'll fit in and that they're actually available for Southampton to buy though?
There are plenty of players coming for big money who don't fit and don't work as stepping stones - look at Joelinton. Maybe that will work out, and he did score on Sunday - but that was £40m for a striker whose best season was 8 goals.
Has any other club been such a consistent stepping stone to bigger clubs for players and managers?