FanSided World Football
·16 April 2025
Championship announcement assures Southampton to be stress-free about midfield

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·16 April 2025
Shea Charles has earned a glowing young player recognition from the Championship which will assure Southampton to remain stress-free about their midfield squad upgrades.
Stepping into the Championship, a return to the squad drawing board is a guaranteed thing for Southampton. Having to assemble a quality rich squad is in itself a sizeable task and doing that on a relatively constrained budget than the Premier League is the pinnacle of transfer difficulties.
Couple that with an increased departure activity which is set to be headed swiftly, Southampton arguably have more work to do than the timeframe they have at hand.
Knowing these impending hurdles, taking a stress-free roadmap like reassessing the current set of players can save a welcome ton of time and effort for the Saints. Further, the criteria should be fixed around Championship credentials where one incoming candidate surely fits the bill well.
Recently, the Championship have rolled out their young player of the season favourites and Southampton's in-demand loanee Shea Charles has made the cut there.
Talk about timing and the Saints have been listed an in-house solution to spark a new energy into their midfield ranks. Throughout the course of the campaign, Charles has highlighted why Southampton never resorted to any kind of transfer hard-ball whenever Sheffield Wednesday came calling for his services.
With Charles, the Saints knew they could bridge the widening talent gap in the middle of the park.
Still, overwhelming him with Premier League commitments would have done more harm than good to his morale, a direction which thankfully the board never drifted in.