After sealing promotion to the Premier League with a 1-0 victory over Leeds United at Wembley, Southampton could flex their top-flight status for the first time this summer to land a target who reportedly wants to leave his current club.
Southampton transfer news
The Saints took just one season to bounce back from Premier League relegation and now find themselves back in the top-flight with an important summer transfer window ahead. The transfer headlines have already started on that front too, with the likes of Armando Broja linked with a return to St Mary’s following a successful loan spell in the 2021/22 campaign.
Having struggled to replicate the form of that loan spell ever since, Broja could finally rediscover his goalscoring touch with a Southampton return to finally end a nightmare Chelsea spell this summer and hand the Saints a welcomed boost in the process. If he does arrive, then it’s Che Adams that he will replace in what is some void to fill following the expiry of the Scotland international’s contract. But he may not be the only one handed that responsibility.
According to Carlton Palmer speaking to Football League World, Jack Clarke now wants to leave Sunderland amid interest from Southampton, who will reportedly have to pay at least £15m to land the winger’s signature this summer in a major boost for Russell Martin.
Palmer said: “Southampton, newly promoted to the Premier League, have renewed their interest in Jack Clarke of Sunderland. It’s been said by his agent that he wants to move on and I think it’s almost certain to happen this summer. Ian Harte has repeatedly said that the choice would be there for him to move on.”
