Prodigal Son Could Return To St Mary's

After three years away from the club Saints are rumoured to be talking to Arsenal about the return of one of our prodigal sons, last seen in a Saints shirt in 2014.

Arsenal have apparently told Callum Chambers that he has no future at the Emirates and that he can leave for a fee of £15 million, slightly less than the amount the Gunners paid to Saints to take him to North London in the summer of 2014.

Initially he flourished under Arsene Wenger who sought to change him from the full back role he started in at St Mary's into a central defender, something which had been mooted at Saints but never quite tried.

But his second season at the Gunners saw him play only 12 times in the Premier League, last season although he started on the opening day he was soon off to Middlesbrough on loan for the rest of the season.

There were many at the time who though that given the issues with Jose Fonte that Saints should have brought Chambers back to St Mary's last August, something that in hindsight would have been a very good idea.

Now it seems it could happen although there will be competition from supposedly Everton and Newcastle, although it would be strange if the Toffee's were interested given that they seem to be well served at both right back and central defence, the two positions were Chambers would be looking to get a game and at this stage of his career he needs to be looking at regular first team football.

Still only 22 he has plenty of time to kick start his career and fulfill the potential that he showed at Saints in his first spell and that has seemed to have been knocked out of him at Arsenal.

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