Southampton should ditch forgotten man who earns 2x greater than Walker-Peters

Southampton followers will hope that, after a rocky begin to the season, the newly promoted facet’s kind does decide up after the worldwide break is over.

Solely netting one purpose to date, with three defeats from three additionally making for grim studying, Russell Martin now has the prolonged break to try to get extra out of his group on the coaching pitch to attempt to positively influence their worrying early Premier League kind.

He may properly even find yourself experimenting with what he at his disposal to try to get factors on the board, nevertheless it appears to be like most unlikely that Kamaldeen Sulemana will get an opportunity to impress within the first-team image.

Sulemana’s time at Southampton

As soon as costing the Saints a membership file £22m, it is truthful to say Sulemana has by no means fairly lived as much as this bumper price ticket when enjoying on the South Coast.

From 44 appearances up to now donning a Saints strip, the ex-Rennes winger has solely managed to seize two objectives and 4 assists, with zero strikes coming his method throughout Southampton’s promotion-winning marketing campaign.

Solely averaging 39 minutes per conflict that very same season, it hasn’t been an excellent shock to see Sulemana’s standing within the St. Mary’s pecking order take a battering transferring up a league, with no video games being handed to him to date within the Premier League.

A transfer to Ajax was meant to be the confidence-boosting swap Sulemana wanted on deadline day, however that mortgage journey was initially placed on maintain, owing to the actual fact it was unclear whether or not or not the entire paperwork involving the transfer passed off earlier than or after the Dutch window slammed shut.

There had even been the potential for him to maneuver completely to the Eredivisie giants for £17m as a part of the momentary deal, though journalist Fabrizio Romano has since confirmed that the deal is now off.

Martin and Co doubtless would not have been too gutted to see the again of their £22m flop if he had departed, owing to his hefty wage within the Saints camp which sees him earn double the wage that key first-teamer Kyle Walker-Peters finds himself on.

Sulemana’s wage at Southampton

As per Capology, Sulemana’s wage for the season forward is available in at an extortionate £40k-per-week, a wild quantity for a participant who’s but to style any motion for Martin’s males in both the league and even the EFL Cup.

Quite the opposite, Walker-Peters stays a key cog within the Saints machine, with the South Coast outfit relieved that the previous Tottenham Hotspur man did not transfer to new pastures this window simply gone.

No matter objectives just like the one above from the attack-minded defender serving to Southampton obtain promotion final season, and Walker-Peters averaging 87 minutes per conflict within the Premier League to date, the favored 27-year-old solely earns a lesser £20k-per-week pay packet.

Walker-Peters will not be the one aggrieved member of the Saints camp in relation to Sulemana incomes extra, with the likes of Will Smallbone and different fastened first-teamers additionally incomes much less.

Wanting on the desk above, it is not a shock to see that Southampton do need to stability the books and do away with their £40k-per-week man, with first-team stalwart on the again from final season in Taylor Harwood-Bellis even incomes considerably much less at £7.5k-per-week.

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Southampton have been susceptible to many blunders within the switch market through the years, with Sulemana one other one now added to the record.

Whereas Martin and Co will doubtless now be pressured to attend till January to dump the expensive forgotten man, the hope will likely be {that a} last-gasp deal might be struck with a handful of markets nonetheless open throughout the globe.