Some Saints fans have been quite critical of the relationship between Southampton and one of Sport Republic's other club's Goztepe, not that Saints supporters have anything against the Turkish club, but they are not considering the bigger picture.
Over the past couple of years or so a section of the fanbase seem to resent the fact that Sport Republic have more than one club on their roster, they look at the fact that Saints have signed players such as Mateusz Liz on free transfers and then loan them to Goztepe.
They see it as financially supporting the Turkish club using money that could be used to buy players for Southampton.
The truth is that in the grand scheme of things very little cash is being spent, it is about finding potential players and testing them at Goztepe in the Turkish top flight and then seeing if they are good enough to progress to England.
As in the case of the aforementioned Liz who joined Southampton on a free transfer and was immediately loaned to Goztepe, who would then pay his wages, after a season in Turkey he was transferred permanently to Goztepe and a small profit was made by Southampton.
With Will Still being a manager who looks at all aspects of the game and looks outside the box with his decisions, it is probably something that he will be keen to develop and utilise.
A similar thing happened over the course of the last season with two players going to Goztepe on loan, Kuryu Matsuki was signed from FC Tokyo for a nominal fee of around £1 million and the then 21 year old was sent on loan to the Izmir based sister club.
He has had a mixed season in Turkey having featured in 28 league games for Goztepe, but only 10 of them in the starting line up, but the attacking midfielder has scored 2 goals and 4 assists.
The stats suggesting that he is not quite ready for a place in the Southampton squad, he like Liz might see Saints sell him on a permanent basis for another small profit or alternatively another loan either again with Goztepe or elsewhere.
But as footballleagueworld.co.uk are suggesting, the second returning loanee, Brazilian striker Juan, might well be pushing for a place in the Saints squad.
The 23 year old who was signed on a free transfer from San Paulo in Brazil, was in good form for Goztepe before a hamstring injury ended his season, he was a regular started 21 games plus another 5 off the bench saw him score 7 goals and 5 assists.
He is essentially a centre forward, but as footballleagueworld.co.uk report, he is a little more versatile than just an out and out striker.
He can play down the centre, he can play out wide in a front 3 or he can play a little deeper as a second striker behind a centre forward, almost as a replacement for Matteus Fernandes should he leave the club.
They also report that:
"Compared with forwards in similar leagues, Juan ranks higher than 96% of forwards for chances created per 90 minutes.
"Compared with players in the Süper Lig alone, he ranks 91.8%.
"Defensively, he is no slouch either. Ranked 79.6% for balls won in the final third, Juan is well suited to a pressing game should Still decide to play that way. Juan ranks highly among similar players for interceptions (83.7%) and tackles won (85.7%).
"Knowing that Still prefers his team to play aggressively and work very hard, it's easy to see why Juan should join the first-team for pre-season."
So with Juan returning to pre season training at Staplewood in about 3 weeks Will Still might be ready to take a look at the Brazilian and consider whether he should be part of his squad.
The Turkish Super Lig is a top flight division, although not of the standard of the Premier League or other truly top European leagues, it is still competitive and perhaps on a par with the Championship, so this coming season Juan could be a contender.
If that is the case then after several key players of the Southampton squad depart as suspected, then Juan could save the club a fair few million in transfer fees.
If that is the case then it will highlight what Sport Republic are trying to achieve in the long term at Southampton Football Club.
So far it has not born much fruition, but as I have said it is about looking to find one or two gems out of a number of options tried and so far at a cost of around a million in transfer fees it is not exactly putting a big hole in the transfer budget.
In the past for every Mick Channon, Steve Williams, Danny Wallace, Matt Le Tissier, Alan Shearer or Gareth Bale, there are literally dozens of their team mates at youth level who fail to make it at the top level, some play at lower league clubs and we turn a small profit, others leave the professional game altogether.
For every Kevin Keegan signed there was a Mike McCartney, a player signed form a lower league club and who didn't really make it at the club and moved on at a loss.
Traditionally English football clubs look to build youth teams and bring players through that way, but the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea have ripped that model apart by signing large numbers of youngsters who will never make their first team and then sell them on to help them with their Financial Fair Play rules stats.
With Chelsea able to recruit in the Southampton area, that has seen many youngsters who would normally sign for Saints and then move up the youth ranks poached by Chelsea either at a young age as with Levi Colwill, born in Southampton & now an England International or as with Tyler Dibling who went and returned at 17 or Jay Morgane who went and didn't and spent last season at Gillingham.
Southampton have always led the way in producing youth players and now they have to look to adapt and change and they have now done this.
With players being snapped up by Chelsea now, we have to look to other areas and that is finding the gems not at a young age, but those that are a few years older and have potential, bringing that potential on via developing them at our sister clubs.
It won't take over the Academy system completely, but it is an important addition to the recruitment options going forward.
So far it hasn't produced a star, but its in it's initial stages and we have only signed a small number of players for a small outlay so far, it has broke even, but if Juan does join the Saints squad for the coming season, then we might well see some benefit from the system.
In the other direction we have had 18 year old Izzet Furkan Malek on loan from Goztepe who has played in our academy teams this season and also Joachim Saya Sandi who was signed for around £3.5 million from Sports Republic's other club Valenciennes and featured in the last two games in the Premier League last month.
Football has changed at a rapid rate over the last decade or so and continues to do so, Southampton FC also have to change and after a period of floundering, they seem to be getting back on track again.