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A lot of bad decisions have been made in recent years at Southampton.
Apart from appointing Mauricio Pellegrino and then replacing him with the abysmal Mark Hughes, the Saints have made a number of slip-ups in the transfer market with Director of Football Operations Ross Wilson overseeing a vast amount of terrible captures.
Wilson was at the helm when the likes of £15m Wesley Hoedt walked through the door, along with £18.1m Mario Lemina, £19m Guido Carrillo and £16m Mohamed Elyounoussi, to name a few.
All four of the aforementioned players cost the Saints a combined £68.1m, but Wilson’s work this summer has shown the first steps of the Saints chief wanting to amend his mistakes and help Ralph Hasenhuttl.
It was Wilson who was reportedly the driving force behind Hughes being replaced by the Austrian, and he is seemingly trying his best to help the former RB Leipzig boss get what he wants this summer whilst amending previous mistakes.
Hasenhuttl said towards the end of July that he wants a squad of 22 players going into the Premier League opener against Burnley, with the Saints employing 29 first-team players at the time.
Since then, however, Wilson has worked hard to find new clubs for fringe players whose exits would help Hasenhuttl get his wish, whilst the Director of Football has also managed to offload two first-teamers who were not in the Austrian’s good books.
Both Lemina and Charlie Austin had been completely frozen out by Hasenhuttl and were taken off the first-team schedule, strongly suggesting that the boss no longer wanted those players around.
Wilson has since managed to loan Lemina out to Galatasaray and sell Austin to West Brom in a permanent deal, so he is evidently working hard to keep the manager happy and ensure he has his wishes fulfilled.
The Director of Football has overseen some expensive mistakes in the past, but he appears to be keen to make amends.
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