If rumours in the media are correct and it should be noted that at this stage of the season they rarely are, Saints are tracking a left back from French top flight club Angers, but does this rumour have any substance.
According to the rumour mill Saints are looking at Angers Ivory Coast left back Souleyman Doumbia.
But the big question is that after recent speculation that Ryan Bertrand will be leaving the club at the end of the season as a free agent and that Ralph Hasenhuttl will not play him much in the final few games, is this just an agent putting his man into the frame and there will certainly be plenty of that in the coming weeks.
Accoring to media outlet Football Insider a Southampton source has told them that Doumbia, 24, is on their shortlist of targets and they are monitoring his situation ahead of the summer window.
Now this could have some truth in it, in that Saints with their black box system are continuously monitoring players in all positions at all times, but whether Doumbia is on that list is unclear as is the "Southampton Insider" Clubs do not usually tell the media who their targets are so as to not alert rivals, although they are not adverse to putting out false trails here and there to throw people off the scent.
Doumbia is no spring chicken and will turn 25 in September and so far in his career he has not exactly set the World alight, but then again neither had Kyle Walker Peters this time last year.
The left back first came to the fore in 2017/18 when he forced his way into the Grasshoppers team in the Swiss Super league, a move to Rennes in France didn't exactly pay off and he was soon shiiped off to Angers, initially on lon and then signed for a fee of around £2.5 million and his value does not seem to have risen too much since.
So is Doumbia a hidden gem as was Walker Peters or is he just a little bit of agents talk ?
My money is on the latter.