Now that the dust has settled Southampton can reflect on a busy summer in which Sport Republic provided Russell Martin with 14 first-team signings. Russell Martin will have known there was a lot of work to be done to get his Southampton squad ready for the Premier League and the Saints boss has been backed by owners Sport Republic over the summer. Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Flynn Downes and Ryan Fraser were all signed permanently after successful seasons on loan Southampton last season, whilst the likes of Mateus Fernandes, Ben Brereton Diaz and Yukinari Sugawara also made the move to St Mary’s. I…
