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5 biggest Southampton ‘flair’ signings of the last 5 years

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In the 66th minute at St. Mary’s Stadium last night, something special took place in front of Southampton supporters’ eyes.

The club’s most expensive signing of all-time, Sofiane Boufal announced himself to Saints fans in the best way possible by scoring an absolute screamer past Jordan Pickford to hand Saints a place in the last eight of the EFL Cup.

Enduring a delayed start to his Southampton career through injury, the Moroccan international hadn’t played in front of his home crowd prior to yesterday evening’s game.

Only appearing in two recent cameos against both Inter Milan and Manchester City away from home, Southampton fans have been eager to see what all the fuss was about regarding £21 million Boufal’s talents.

Starting in an experimental attacking trio consisting of Lloyd Isgrove and Jay Rodriguez last night, Boufal enjoyed a good, if not spectacular game on the whole but take nothing away from his strike which was out of this world.

With Boufal’s worldy of a strike being one that will stay in the memory for a long time, it got us thinking about who exactly have been Southampton’s five biggest flair players of the past five years.

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