Southampton Target Ex Liverpool Midfielder
Saints are looking towards Salzburg, not for the sound of music, but for a midfielder, although this one will perhaps not have the wow factor for Southampton fans that they were hoping for.
The man in question is 2o year old central midfielder Bobby Clark who joined RB Salzburg from Liverpool for a fee of £10 million last summer.
At Anfield his first team chances were limited, he made just 6 Premier League appearances for Liverpool totalling 94 minutes, although. He did rack up a few more minutes game in various cup competitions for the Reds.
He joined RB Salzburg hoping for more game time, but it hasn’t quite worked out that way, he has started just 7 League games with another 10 off the bench plus 6 Champions League games & 1 Austrian cup appearance.
Due to injury he missed a big chunk of the last half of the season and now it seems that Salzburg are open to offers and Saints are one of the clubs interested with the Austrian club willing to take a loss on their transfer fee paid, £8 million quoted as the starting price.
This won’t go down well for some supporters who will point at the fact that we need experience and not youth in what is a key area of the park, however it should be noted that Mateus Fernandes arrived at St Mary’s short on age and experience and he didn’t do too bad a job.
So Clark could re-ignite his career in the Championship and perhaps go on to better things, hopefully with Saints at least that seems to be the plan.
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