After three years away from the club Saints are rumoured to be talking to Arsenal about the return of one of our prodigal sons, last seen in a Saints shirt in 2014.

Arsenal have apparently told Callum Chambers that he has no future at the Emirates and that he can leave for a fee of £15 million, slightly less than the amount the Gunners paid to Saints to take him to North London in the summer of 2014.

Initially he flourished under Arsene Wenger who sought to change him from the full back role he started in at St Mary's into a central defender, something which had been mooted at Saints but never quite tried.

But his second season at the Gunners saw him play only 12 times in the Premier League, last season although he started on the opening day he was soon off to Middlesbrough on loan for the rest of the season.

There were many at the time who though that given the issues with Jose Fonte that Saints should have brought Chambers back to St Mary's last August, something that in hindsight would have been a very good idea.

Now it seems it could happen although there will be competition from supposedly Everton and Newcastle, although it would be strange if the Toffee's were interested given that they seem to be well served at both right back and central defence, the two positions were Chambers would be looking to get a game and at this stage of his career he needs to be looking at regular first team football.

Still only 22 he has plenty of time to kick start his career and fulfill the potential that he showed at Saints in his first spell and that has seemed to have been knocked out of him at Arsenal.

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pete_boggs added 10:38 - Jun 21 Why would we want him? He's rubbish.
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TimSaint added 10:51 - Jun 21 The Boro defence didn't concede many last season, but ultimately they got relegated. We should be setting our sites a little higher than that. Yes he is still young and has potential, but apparently he didn't want to come here on loan before, so why would he want to back here permanent basis. No thank you !!
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Sanguin added 11:17 - Jun 21 He seems like a bargain if we can really get him for less than we sold him for three years ago.
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Jesus_02 added 11:29 - Jun 21 We are pretty well appointed at LB TBH. Pied is a fare player and Cedric looks to be improving. I can only see him coming if we sell Cedric.
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legod7 added 12:06 - Jun 21 Jesus, most of the time he plays as a centre back. We need another centre back anyway even if VVD stays.
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SaintBen added 12:28 - Jun 21 Jesus, Both Pied and Cedric are RB's and if we were seriously considering a move for Chambers, he'd be coming in as competition for Yoshida/Stephens...
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SaintBrock added 12:50 - Jun 21 WTF would we want him back here? Prodigal Son my rrrrrrr he is little more than a spoilt money grubbing little brat who believed all the hype and found out the hard way that he is effing useless. Sorry for the unusual outburst of invective but we shouldn't even be giving him or his deluded agent air.
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bstokesaint added 12:59 - Jun 21 I’m not fussed either way. I like to give credit where it’s due though and so congratulations to Les and the board for seeing that £15m for an unproven second string left back was stupid money. And that was supposed to be part of a “meltdown”! In fact during said "meltdown" only Lallana seems to have gone on to improve.
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BoondockSaint added 13:20 - Jun 21 You must be joking! He gets what he wants-transfer to one of the biggest clubs in the league with a huge rise in wages, and he show up for his first training session with them well overweight? "Unprofessional" doesn't even begin to describe him!
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soulman64 added 14:57 - Jun 21 it was luke shaw who turned up for pre season overweight
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ThereIn76 added 15:11 - Jun 21 One major factual error here - he never appeared in a Saints shirt, just that God-awful plain red abomination from adidas.
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LeicesterSaint added 18:41 - Jun 21 Really rated him before he left, thought he would be a huge star but as usual the grass is not always greener. Would be interested in this but only at the right price - £15 million is way too much.
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aceofthebase added 22:59 - Jun 21 He was as good as, if not better than Clyne and many a game he was preferred. With proper grooming he should have developed into a centre back role but at Arsenal he was rushed into the job. I have no idea of his character but if he went for the money well who hasn't left saints for more money.
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