Southampton like confirmed the signing of Mohammed Salisu on a four-year deal from Steady Valladolid.
The 21-year-used central defender arrives at St Mary’s as the club’s 2d addition of the summer season, after a improbable individual season in La Liga had the leisure of Europe on crimson alert.
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Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhüttl talked about: “Here’s an extraordinarily predominant signing for us. Mohammed is a participant who suits our profile well. He’s younger and has a enormous quantity of doable, nonetheless he’s also someone who has the qualities to attain in and merit the group as soon as he’s up to the pricetag with our approach of playing.
“I love what I truly like considered of him prior to now in his video games with Valladolid. He’s ranking defensively, he’s aloof with the ball – one thing that is predominant in our group – and he has factual crawl too.
“I net he’s going to compare in well with us and that that is also a factual living for him to assemble his game additional. We like some factual centre-backs here and that is also every other ranking option for us.”
Salisu added: “It is an extraordinarily factual feeling to be a Southampton participant. I’m very jubilant to be fragment of the club and I’m taking a glimpse forward to starting here.
“Southampton is a club with an extraordinarily rich historical previous in developing younger gamers, so it is a long way an extraordinarily factual club for me to assemble my abilities and to learn a lot as a younger participant. I do know that the group expects a lot from me and I’m going to envision out to give all I can to merit the group.”
The centre inspire labored his approach into the foremost group in the 2019/20 season, making 32 appearances across all competitions and serving to Steady Valladolid to a first rate 13th-positioned cessation.
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