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The story of Man Utd’s half-time kit change against Southampton
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Ahead of Sunday’s EFL Cup final live on Sky Sports, we recall one of the most memorable meetings between Manchester United and Southampton - when Sir Alex Ferguson’s side famously changed kits halfway through a 3-1 defeat at The Dell…
In April 1996, Manchester United travelled to Southampton having won 11 of their previous 12 games to overhaul Newcastle United at the top of the Premier League table.
They seemed to be on an unstoppable charge towards the title, but on a scorching day at The Dell against relegation-threatened Southampton, they experienced a bizarre and unexpected setback that would live long in the memory.
Manchester United were taken apart during an extraordinarily one-sided first half on the south coast, with Ken Monkou, Neil Shipperley and Matt Le Tissier giving the hosts a deserved three-goal lead at the break.
Something had to change, but the introduction of Paul Scholes for Nicky Butt was not even the half of it. An angry Sir Alex Ferguson felt United’s kit was the bigger issue, with their grey shirts making it difficult for his players to see each other in the bright sunshine.
“I’m not sure if any of the players mentioned the kit,” recalled Lee Sharpe in The Guardian in 2006. “Personally I felt that we were playing really poorly, and that we couldn’t really blame anything or anyone but ourselves.”
Ferguson disagreed, immediately instructing his players to change into their blue and white second away strip. “The manager just stormed in and said: ‘Get that kit off, you’re getting changed,’” added Sharpe. “Those were the first words he said at half-time.”
Much to the bemusement of the watching supporters at The Dell, United’s grey shirts were nowhere to be seen as they trotted back out for the second half. Their performance did improve, but a late strike from Ryan Giggs came as a mere consolation as Southampton eased to a 3-1 win.
Ferguson later described the £10,000 FA fine as “the best £10,000 I ever spent”, but he was in no mood for jokes straight after the game, when he said his players had asked for the change and angrily rejected suggestions that it was a decision based on superstition.
“The players don’t like the grey strip,” he said. "The players couldn’t pick each other out. They said it was difficult to see their team-mates at distance when they lifted their heads. It was nothing to do with superstition.
“This club went 26 years without winning the league and we didn’t think about changing the red shirts. It’s nothing to do with that at all.”
United never wore the grey kit again, but to Southampton’s players, the whole furore smacked of sour grapes. Indeed, goalscorer Le Tissier insisted he hadn’t even noticed the change.
“If I’m honest, I didn’t realise until after the game that they’d changed their kit,” he told Sky Sports. "It was only afterwards that I was stopped by a journalist in the car park and asked about it. I didn’t have a clue up until that point, which is pretty ridiculous given it wasn’t like it was a subtle change!
“It was probably one of the worst excuses I’ve heard. It was definitely a case of the manager taking the heat off of his players. We just battered them in the first half. We were unbelievable. I remember they got a consolation in stoppage-time but it was nothing to do with their kit.”
The slip-up allowed second-placed Newcastle to move within three points of the top, but United rallied to win their final three games of the season and clinch the Premier League title.
Had the outcome been different, it’s safe to assume Ferguson would have spent rather more time bemoaning the kit conundrum that he insists caused United’s downfall at The Dell.
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QUIZ: Can you beat our League Cup quiz?
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SAINTS play Manchester United at Wembley in the League Cup final on Sunday.
As the clock ticks down to the big day we will be testing your knowledge on Saints’ League Cup campaigns.
Here, we bring you the first quiz of the week:
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TRAVEL organisers have eased the fears of fans by insisting that Southampton supporters won’t miss their side’s big moment under the Wembley arch this Sunday.
Train companies are putting on extra transport to ensure fans will see the Saints compete in their first major final in 14 years this weekend, with Claude Puel’s men taking on Manchester United in the League Cup final.
More trains to and from the capital are being put on to help combat travel disruption ahead of the tens of thousands of Southampton FC supporters who will be descending on London this weekend.
South West Trains are adding two additional trains in the morning and two evening trains on Sunday.
Around 30,000 tickets were given to the club for the Wembley occasion in the sold out match. Thousands of fans who weren’t fortunate enough to get a ticket are still expected to travel.
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Transport for London said that they weren’t expecting any travel disruption on the day, despite the extra fans and England rugby supporters who will be travelling to Twickenham to see the national side take on Italy in the Six Nations.
A South West Trains spokesperson said: “We are pleased to confirm we will be providing additional trains between Southampton and London this Sunday to help Saints supporters travel to and from Wembley.
“There will be two additional trains in the morning, departing Southampton Central at 10.50 and 11.50am also calling at Southampton Airport Parkway. There will also be two additional evening trains, departing London Waterloo at 8.50pm and 9.50pm.”
Claude Puel’s men booked their place in the Wembley showpiece last month, beating Liverpool 2-0 on aggregate in the semi-final.
Shane Long’s 94th minute effort secured their spot, sending fans into a frenzy, booking travel arrangements and hotels around London.
A win against Manchester United would see the Saints secure their first piece of silverware since winning the FA Cup in 1976.
South West Trains said: “We would encourage supporters to leave extra time for their journey and travel via London Waterloo using the extra trains provided, particularly as there is also rugby at Twickenham on Sunday afternoon.”
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Winning influence: Which Premier League captains have the best success ratios this season?
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WHICH Premier League skippers have had the biggest influence on results this season?
Looking at the win percentages of all the club captains so far, one skipper stands out with an incredible 80% win ratio!
At the opposite end of the scale is Arsenal’s Per Mertesacker - who is yet to make a single appearance this campaign following a long-term injury.
CLICK THROUGH THE GALLERY ABOVE TO SEE WHICH CAPTAINS HAVE ENJOYED THE BEST CAMPAIGNS.
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Claude Puel’s route to Wembley: Southampton boss’ rise examined
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Claude Puel has guided Southampton to their first League Cup final for more than 25 years in his debut season at St Mary’s, but who is the man in charge of the south coast club?
The Saints surprised many by getting the better of much-fancied Liverpool in the EFL Cup semi-finals, with Puel’s side winning both legs of the tie 1-0 to progress to a Wembley meeting with Man Utd.
Puel and his players will once again be underdogs as they attempt to win Southampton’s first piece of silverware since beating of all teams, United, to land the 1976 FA Cup.
Ahead of Sunday’s showdown at the home of football, though, Jose Mourinho would be advised not to underestimate the wily Frenchman with more than 35 years’ experience in the game.
As a player, Puel was a tough-tackling defensive midfielder at Monaco, who he played nearly 500 matches for between 1979 and 1996, seven of which were under Arsene Wenger’s tutelage.
“Puel was well known in training to be a good tackler,” Wenger recalled of his one-time enforcer. “Even on the morning of a cup final he could tackle and even if it was the manager then no problem! He was a fighter as a player and he will be a fighter as a manager.”
In fact, Puel recalls one such occasion when he left his mentor on his backside in training in an attempt to persuade the then Monaco boss to recall him to the starting line-up.
“I felt Arsene was leaving me on the bench too often,” Puel told the Daily Telegraph. "He had organised a small match between us during training and he decided to take part.
“I tackled him in the game, he went flying and landed on his back. He couldn’t move. He wasn’t happy, but that didn’t stop him putting me in the team for the next game.”
Meanwhile, a former Monaco team-mate, Glenn Hoddle, rates Puel as one of the hardest-working players he’s known and L’Equipe’s chief football writer Erik Bielderman even likens him to Roy Keane.
Puel, 55, credits the current Arsenal manager as being a key influence on his coaching career, with the duo winning Ligue 1 (1988) and the Coupe de France (1991) during their time together at the Stade Louis II, as well as reaching the 1992 Cup-Winners’ Cup final.
“Of course Arsene Wenger was very important for me,” Puel told Sky Sports News HQ.
“I learned from him during seven years at Monaco, it’s a long time and now it’s interesting to see all the great trainers to develop what I can do.”
Two years after Wenger left the Principality for the J-League, Puel hung up his boots, although he remained with the club he had been at since 1979 as a fitness coach and then reserve-team manager.
It was at Monaco’s training ground, situated in the mountain village of La Turbie, that Puel first began to hone Thierry Henry’s skills as an attacker, skills that would later be used to devastate Premier League defences.
“I played with him and had him as a fitness coach as well,” Henry told Sky Sports. “He helped me work on bending the ball and stayed with me after training to develop my finishing. If you want to work and you’re willing to listen, you’re going to improve with Claude Puel.”
Henry never forgot this and even dedicated the goal that sealed France’s qualification for the 2006 World Cup to Puel.
In January 1999, Puel was promoted to replace Jean Tigana as Monaco head coach, winning the title and being named Manager of the Year in his first full campaign at the helm in the South of France.
As well as Henry, Puel was also credited with developing future stars such as Ludovic Giuly, David Trezeguet and Marcelo Gallardo during his two-and-a-half seasons at the club.
However, Puel’s 24-year association as both a player and manager at Monaco came to an abrupt end in the summer of 2001, before a six-year spell at less fashionable Lille soon followed.
There, as well as continuing his reputation for giving youth a chance after inviting a 16-year-old Eden Hazard to train with the first team, Puel - on one of the smaller budgets in France - took the club to their highest league finish in 50 years and again won the country’s Manager of the Year award.
That runners-up finish in Ligue 1 in 2004-05 led to participation in the Champions League the following season, a feat Lille repeated two years later when they reached the last 16.
The club, though, were knocked out by United in controversial circumstances that showed another side to the normally calm Frenchman.
Alex Ferguson’s side won the first leg at the Stade Felix-Bollaert thanks to Ryan Giggs’ quickly taken free kick seven minutes from time, but Puel threatened to lead his players off in protest after the Welshman’s winner came with goalkeeper Tony Sylva still organising his wall.
After his relative success at Lille, Puel then took the reins at Lyon, where he was known for trying to beat his players in pre-season mountain bike Alpine climbs.
But despite guiding the club to the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time ever in 2010, eliminating the Galacticos of Real Madrid along the way, his time at the Stade de Gerland was deemed a failure.
Lyon had won the previous seven Ligue 1 titles in a row before his arrival, but after embarking on the biggest spending spree in French history, including mammoth outlays on the likes of Yoann Gourcuff and Lisandro Lopez, the club won nothing under Puel and he was sacked in 2011 after falling out with president Jean-Michel Aulas.
Puel opted to take a brief time out of the game and was once again reunited with his mentor, this time in north London.
“After being Lyon manager, I had a sabbatical year and went to see Arsenal train and play thanks to my contact with him [Wenger],” he recalls, before taking the Nice job in 2012.
Puel guided the tiny Mediterranean side to fourth in his first year in charge - their best league finish since 1976 - and then repeated the feat last season with a team built around current Leicester City midfielder Nampalys Mendy and the mercurial talents of Hatem Ben Arfa, who scored 17 goals.
Under Puel, the former Newcastle United winger won a recall to the French national team and a place on the Ligue 1 Player of the Year shortlist, once again demonstrating his outstanding man-management skills and ability to extract the best from those players willing to listen to him.
“Everyone wanted to watch Nice last year,” said Henry. “He managed to get the best out of Ben Arfa and I’m not surprised. He’d go through walls as a player and he’ll demand that of his players. He’ll want a team that plays with discipline and organisation but also freedom.”
Puel promoted no fewer than 16 youngsters from the academy to the first team and kept getting results in the process, including qualifying for the Europa League proper for the first time in almost 40 years.
His exploits in France, particularly at Lille and Nice, also highlighted an ability to build a team capable of beating those with greater financial resources, as seen by Southampton’s run all the way to Wembley.
“There is one word to describe him: builder,” French journalist Maxime Dupuis said of his compatriot. “This guy is perfect to build something with young players.”
And despite the Southampton job being his first outside his homeland, the Frenchman has continued that at St Mary’s this season.
Puel immediately spotted that winger Nathan Redmond could be better deployed as a forward, with the player responding by scoring Southampton’s winner in their EFL Cup semi-final first-leg win over Liverpool at St Mary’s in January.
“He played always wide, but I think he is a very good striker,” said Puel, who also had no hesitation in throwing England U21 international Jack Stephens in at the deep end in the second leg after an injury to captain Virgil van Dijk.
“It was an exciting game for him to play, but it was potentially difficult for him too,” was Puel’s verdict of how the 23-year-old centre back performed in the visitors’ 1-0 victory at Anfield.
“He was calm and mature. I saw him play for the U23 team and it made me realise picking him would be a normal selection. I am very pleased for all of the people in the academy who have worked very hard with him.”
Another youngster hoping to be involved against United this weekend, midfielder Harrison Reed, has spoken in glowing terms of training under Puel this season.
“It’s a lot of technical stuff - short, sharp stuff,” he commented of the man who gave professional debuts to future Premier League stars such as Kevin Mirallas, Yohan Cabaye, Mathieu Debuchy and Hazard.
However, with the League Cup up for grabs at Wembley on Sunday afternoon, do not think for one moment that Puel will not be prepared to sacrifice his footballing principles for the chance to lead Southampton to their first trophy in 41 years.
“Puel loves entertaining football, but is also realistic,” says Bielderman.
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The Times newspaper, it’s fair to say, was not a huge fan of the League Cup when it was introduced in 1960.
Instead of looking outward to new, European horizons, the Football League were instead looking inward with the creation of a new cup for their 92 members.
The Times, in May 1960, wrote: "Where a drastic reduction is required in an attempt to raise quality, no doubt quantity and a further spread of mediocrity will be the dose.
"Where men like Count Bernabeu with his wider horizons, think in terms of a European-league for the future … the Football League propose next season to implement their useless Football League Cup to be played in midweek.
“It gets the players, the clubs and the public nowhere.”
Nearer the start of the first ever League Cup season, The Times were still in critical mood. One reporter wrote: “Our game is now further to be saddled by a pointless, prosaic, parochial new tournament.”
Who knows what that correspondent would have made of the Zenith Data Systems Cup or the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy!
The Football League originally proposed the League Cup as part of a scheme to reduce the number of clubs in each division and, consequently, the number of games played each season.
The reduction in numbers was not agreed to by the league’s member clubs, however, causing the ties to be squeezed into the existing fixture list.
Ties were intended to be played midweek under floodlights, as they are these days.
However, some 3pm kick-offs were needed since not all clubs had floodlights in 1960.
Though all 92 Football League clubs were eligible to participate, Arsenal, Sheffield Wednesday, West Bromwich Albion, Wolves and Tottenham did not enter.
There were hardly financial reasons to do so - the prize money for winning the competition, after all, was only £750.
In the semi finals, Aston Villa beat reigning league champions Burnley while Second Division Rotherham defeated Third Division Shrewsbury over two legs.
Due to fixture congestion, the first two-legged League Cup final was held over until the 1961/62 season had started. As a result, winners Aston Villa started their defence nine days after lifting the silverware!
Peter McParland scored Villa’s second leg winner as they came from 0-2 down in the first leg to triumph 3-0 at Villa Parl.
As a result, he carved out a little piece of English football history for himself as the first player to score in, and win, both major domestic knockout finals.
Four years earlier, the Irishman had scored both Villa’s goals in a 2-0 FA Cup final win over Manchester United.
In 1961/62 there were only three fourth round ties.
An amazing five clubs - including eventual finalists Norwich and Rochdale - received byes to the quarter finals.
Rochdale, the first Fourth Division club to ever reach the final, had dumped out second tier Saints in the first round.
Entry to the competition was not mandatory for Football League clubs until 1971/72 - six seasons after the final had been switched from a two-legged affair to a one-off Wembley occasion in a bid to inject extra glamour.
Though five clubs did not enter in the first season, that figure tumbled to ten in 1961/62 while the following season 12 clubs chose to stay away.
After 83 clubs entered in 1965/66, all but two entered the following season.
The bigger entry was reflected in the decision to play the final at Wembley and also to grant the winners entry to the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (later the UEFA Cup).
The 1969/70 was the first season when all 92 clubs entered, though league champions Everton opted out of the 1970/71 season.
After entry became compulsory in 1971/72, there has only been one occasion when not every club has competed.
That was in 1986/87 when Luton Town were thrown out for refusing to lift the club’s ban on away supporters entering Kenilworth Road.
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LONDON: Manchester United skipper Wayne Rooney could miss Sunday’s League Cup final against Southampton at Wembley after manager Jose Mourinho revealed that the striker was still struggling with a muscle injury.
Rooney, United’s all-time top scorer, has not played since the start of February and missed Sunday’s FA Cup fifth-round win over Blackburn Rovers.
“I don’t know,” Mourinho told reporters when asked if Rooney would be fit to face Southampton in the final.
Mourinho also ruled Rooney and defender Phil Jones out of United’s Europa League last-32 match at St Etienne on Wednesday. United have a 3-0 lead from the first leg of the tie.
“Rooney is injured. Jones is injured. I don’t think they will recover,” said the manager. “Rooney and Jones haven’t trained with the team yet so I don’t think they will be there for Wednesday.”
United, who have won the League Cup four times before, beat Hull City 2-0 at Old Trafford before losing 2-1 away in the semi-final to progress to the final with a 3-2 aggregate score.
Southampton beat Liverpool 1-0 both home and away in the semis to book their first major Wembley final since losing to Nottingham Forest in the 1979 League Cup final.
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Twelve men who have played for both Saints and League Cup final rivals Manchester United
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Twelve men have played for Saints and their League Cup final rivals Manchester United since the Second World War - from Norman Kirkman to Morgan Schneiderlin.
Here, the Daily Echo looks back at the dozen who have represented both the Wembley finalists.
The full back made unofficial appearances for Manchester United during the war, but never played a competitive game. Moved to Saints from Leicester in 1950, but made only 20 league appearances for the club. After spells managing Exeter City and Bradford Park Avenue he dropped out of football to become a baker. He later scouted for several clubs, including Saints.
The left back made his United debut in 1967 and played in six European Cup ties in the club’s run to the 1967/68 European Cup final, though he lost his place in the final to Shay Brennan. After 121 league appearances for United he joined Saints for £50,000 in 1972. He could not displace Joe Kirkup as first choice left back, though, and moved back to Lancashire to join Preston the following year after just 21 Saints games. At Deepdale he was reunited with former Old Trafford team-mate Bobby Charlton, who had just taken over as Preston boss. Indeed, Burns was his first signing.
United boss Sir Matt Busby described the Welshman as ‘the finest centre forward in Europe’ after Davies had scored all Saints’ goals in a 4-1 win at Old Trafford in August 1969.
Davies was a prolific scorer for Saints, with 85 goals in 119 First Division games in his first three seasons at The Dell.
His four-goal show at Old Trafford made up a third of his entire 1969/70 top flight tally, though.
He left Saints in March 1974 after netting 153 goals in 277 appearances.
In November 1974, he moved to Old Trafford, Tommy Docherty paying Pompey £43,000 for his services.
By this time, though, Davies’ best days were long gone. He only made 10 appearances for United - eight in the Second Division and two in the FA Cup - and didn’t score at all.
A man for the big occasion, the midfielder scored for Sheffield Wednesday in the 1966 FA Cup final and for Wolves in the 1972 UEFA Cup final. However, he lost both finals - to Everton and Tottenham respectively.
McCalliog moved to Old Trafford in March 1974 for £70,000 from Wolves, but could not prevent the club being relegated to the second division (Saints went down the same season as well).
McCalliog started the 1974/75 season as a United regular but was sold in February 1975 to Saints for £40,000.
The player would go on to write his name into Saints folklore by providing the pass for Bobby Stokes to score the winner in the following year’s FA Cup final against his former employers.
In the quarter final, he had struck the only goal at fourth tier Bradford City.
McCalliog played 72 games for Saints and scored eight goals before losing his place in January 1977 to new signing Alan Ball. He left at the end of the season to play in the North American Soccer League for Chicago Sting.
A prolific scorer for AFC Bournemouth, MacDougall won a dream move to Old Trafford in September 1972 for a fee of almost £200,000.
He was to only play 18 times for United, though, with one of his four goals coming in a 2-1 win against Saints two months later.
Signing for Saints from Norwich for £50,000 in 1976, MacDougall was top scorer in his first season, 1976/77 - hitting 23 goals in 36 Second Division appearances.
Reunited up front with former Cherries strike partner Phil Boyer, MacDougall contributed 14 more goals as Saints win promotion to the top flight in 1977/78.
Despite five goals in the first 10 games of the 1978/79 First Division season, MacDougall told boss Lawrie McMenemy he no longer felt able to cut it at the highest level and was allowed to return to Cherries.
Handed his debut by Lawrie McMenemy as a 16-year-old at Old Trafford in November 1980, the winger moved there permanently for £1.3m almost nine years later.
His best days, without a doubt, were in Saints’ colours.
He netted 64 goals in 253 appearances for the club , including 11 in the First Division when Saints finished runners-up to Liverpool in 1984.
While at United, he scored 11 goals in 71 appearances - helping the club win the 1990 FA Cup. He was a non playing sub when they won the European Cup Winners Cup 12 months later.
The emergence of first Lee Sharpe and then Ryan Giggs greatly reduced Wallace’s chances, and he left to join Birmingham in October 1993 for £400,000.
Three years later he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and he was forced to retire from football.
In 2006, he completed the London Marathon in five-and-a-half days.
Signed by United for £350,000 in early 1978 from Leeds United, the Scottish international striker was to score 41 goals in 126 appearances for the club.
He left Old Trafford in the summer of 1981, AC Milan signing him for £325,000. Three years later, aged 32, he returned to England to sign for Saints for £150,000. There he was top scorer in his first season, 1984/85, with 12 league goals as Saints finished fifth. He moved onto Bristol City in 1987.
A legend at Old Trafford for his 120 goals in 354 appearances over two spells.
Anything but a legend at Saints, where he made 60 appearances after a £650,000 move from Chelsea in the summer of 1998 and only scored twice.
A far cry from his early days at United where he struck 24 league and cup goals in his second full season, 1984/85, before netting 17 in the league the following season.
That form won him a £2.5m move to Barcelona in the summer of 1986, but he returned to Old Trafford two years later for £1.5m.
He struck 21 times in all competitions in 1990/91, including two in the European Cup Winners Cup final win against Barcelona, and added 22 more in 1993/94 when United won the double for the first time.
He moved to Chelsea in 1995 and onto Saints three years later.
A flying winger at Old Trafford between 1991-1996 - where he scored 36 goals in 161 appearances - Kanchelski was given a one-year Saints contract by Gordon Strachan ahead of the 2002/03 season.
The Russian only appeared in one league game, against Everton as a sub, before leaving in the first ever January transfer window to join Saudi Arabians Al-Hilal on a free.
Only made seven first team appearances for United after coming through the ranks at Old Trafford, prior to moving to Derby. Signed for Saints in the January 2003 transfer window for £1.5m. Made 94 appearances for Saints before leaving to join Stoke in August 2006 for £225,000. Aged 34, and playing for non league Chester at the time, Higginbotham made his international debut in 2013 for Gibraltar.
The left back was only 17 when Nigel Adkins threw him in for his Premier League debut in November 2012.
But he never looked out of place and in March 2014, aged 18, made his senior England debut.
He went to that summer’s World Cup and appeared in the draw with Costa Rica.
On his return to Saints, and after 60 league appearances for the club, he moved to Old Trafford for a whopping £27m.
That made him one of world football’s most expensive teenagers.
In his two and a half seasons at United, Shaw has been restricted to just 28 league appearances.
He missed most of the 2015/16 season with a badly broken leg suffered in a Champions League fixture.
Still only 21, he has also struggled for regular football under Jose Mourinho.
Little did they know it at the time, but Saints had a bargain when they paid French club Strasborg £1.2m for an 18-year-old Schneiderlin in the summer of 2008.
He went on to become a key member of the club’s rise from the depths of League 1 to the top seven of the Premier League, making 261 appearances in all competitions.
After three seasons as a Premier League regular with Saints, he moved to Manchester United for £25m in the summer of 2015.
Jose Mourinho’s arrival last summer saw him fall out of first team favour, and last month he jumped at the chance to be reunited with his former Saints boss Ronald Koeman at Everton.
At £20m, he was the most expensive signing in the January transfer window.
Alan McLoughlin was a trainee at Old Trafford who left without ever playing a first team game, McLoughlin became Saints’ first £1m signing in December 1990 when he moved from Swindon. He only made 27 appearances, however, and within two years had moved to Pompey for £400,000.
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Having grown up watching #SaintsFC at The Dell, @CraigDavid says he is excited by our #MarchToWembley: https://grabyo.com/g/v/FdrsUaSJy0g
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We have a message for you from the New Orleans Saints.
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#MarchToWembley: Saints 1-0 Sunderland
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Sofiane Boufal netted a brilliant goal on his first start in Southampton colours as Saints edged past Sunderland with a 1-0 win in the fourth round of the EFL Cup.
Moroccan Boufal who had made two appearances as a substitute in the past week, was out to make an impression on his home bow, and took to his role as entertainer with some neat footwork throughout the contest.
His shining moment came midway through the second half when he seamlessly plucked a high ball out of the air before going on to curl a superb arching finish into the top corner for a goal worthy of winning any game, let alone this one.
An otherwise largely forgettable contest saw Saints labour their way to victory, though Sunderland to their credit battled on until the end, on a night which was further soured for them when manager David Moyes was sent to the stands for an over-zealous reaction to an unanswered penalty claim.
IT’S A BEAUTIFUL GOAL AND I’M SO HAPPY TO SCORE MY FIRST GOAL AT ST MARY’S. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT OF ALL THE FANS WHO CAME TODAY.
IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE TO MAKE MY DEBUT IN FRONT OF ALL THOSE FANS AND I’M GRATEFUL TO THE MANAGER FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.
the young players had a good spirit. sometimes it was difficult for them, because they didn’t have experience and maturity, but with energy and quality, like the goal of boufal, it was ok.
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Southampton 3-1 Man Utd - April '96
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We recall one of the most memorable meetings between Man Utd and Southampton when Sir Alex Ferguson’s side famously changed kits halfway through a 3-1 defeat at The Dell.
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