Saints, Leicester City and Birmingham City along with several French clubs are all said to be interested in acquiring the services of 24 year old Swiss striker Andi Zeqiri from Brighton & Hove Albion.
Andi Zeqiri has spent a lot of his time at Brighton out on loan but as he enters the final year of his contract, the Seagulls are looking to offload him on a permanent basis and several Championship clubs are interested according to footballleagueworld.co.uk
The 24 year old started with Lausanne in his native Switzerland and made his name with them in 2019.20 scoring 17 goals in 33 games to earn them Promotion back to the Swiss Super League.
That earned him a move to Brighton who paid around £4 million to sign the then 21 year old. He featured in his first season making 9 Premier League appearances off the bench, but failed to score and the following season he joined Augsburg in Germany on a season long loan. He made 22 Bundesliga appearances scoring twice and with two assists.
Last season he was back in his home country to join FC Basel for the season and in 30 League games for them scored 11 goals, but his best form came in the Europa Conference League where Basel reached the semi finals, he scored 5 goals in 11 games.
He has also won 8 caps for Switzerland
Now it seems that although he isn't in Brighton's plans, he is interesting Championship clubs including Saints, but how much of this is his agent trying to drum up interest is another story.
Personally I would say his record is not as good as that of Sekou Mara when he joined us and unless we sign a proven goal scorer should Che Adams depart, then we might as well give Sekou Mara a chance.
He is still only 21 and at times last season showed that he has a touch, vision and an eye for goal.