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Is This Midfield Starlet The Sort We Need To Be Buying?

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Linked with a £10million move to Liverpool in recent days, there is a lot of hype surrounding Southampton’s 17 year old midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, but exactly who is he?

Oxlade-Chamberlain joined the Saints youth setup at the age of just 7 after his father, former Stoke City player and former Saints coach Mark Chamberlain, recommended him for a trial. He joined the club after a successful trial period and he made his way through the youth ranks. In his first year as a scholar, he impressed in the club’s reserves last campaign and scored his first goal for the club in a reserve match v Bournemouth with a well taken run and shot.

More accustomed to playing in central midfield at this point, he has however impressed playing on the wing this season. After becoming the second youngest debutant for Southampton’s senior team last March coming as substitute against Huddersfield at 16 years and 199 days, just behind Theo Walcott, he has established himself as a first team regular this campaign.

He scored his first senior goal for the club against Bournemouth in a 2-0 victory days before his 17th birthday back in August and has gone from strength to strength since then, scoring goals against Carlisle and Bournemouth as well as two and an assist against Dagenham & Redbridge in a 4-0 win where he was named Man of the Match for the first time last month.

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  • samuel charles says:

    Do you have any idea who and what liverpool are after or do you print these to generate hype.

    liverpool sign players like this, i will takeaway my investmnet form the club and thats clear.

    and for the record bring rafa back now, sack roy and invest properly,,, i said PROPERLY ???

  • Joe says:

    Bit of a crazy response to a totally reasonable article.

    We need to keep investing in youth, especially homegrown youth (what with the rules regarding that and so on…)

    It can also potentially save a lot of money spent on a foreign import at a later date, this leaving the club with more revenue.

    NESV’s policy is based around a strong youth set-up, so what makes you think you know better samuel?

    Get off your horse, and give CAPS LOCK a break.

  • Julie says:

    Come on Sami C, if you see FOOTBALL as a bussiness ( AND I BELIEVE IT HAS BECOME A GLOBAL BUSSINESS ) then Liverpool is a big Company, NESV is now their parent Co & players become assets to buy & sell like commodities. From this scenario I can see Sami C’s point. Pay 10MIL for this kid = risky business or is it? The last time any club paid this kind of money for someone so young was MANURE 4 ROONEY!!! Like Sami C I don’t see this kid turning into a world-beater any time soon. Anyway If we’re going to be splashing that kind of money on the youth @ that price he should be a starter. As for RAFA well he was a great asset to this company but we now have different owners with a different board, moving in another direction with a different setup. Can RAFA work with this board, move in the same direction & work under a different setup maybe, if he can’t then NESV will see him as a liability!!!

  • daboy says:

    I certainly believe the club must bring in the best young talent and if they must pay large sums so be it.
    My only qualm is i do not think with his C.V this kid is worth anywhere near that sort of money.
    The fact he is being talked up to be as good as Walcott in the future is no glowing endorsement.

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