Lesley Ugogochukwu's loan spell at Southampton from Chelsea has not turned out the way either the club or the player had hoped, now it seems that he has wiped all references to Saints from his instagram page after his omission from the squad at Brighton.

Lesley Ugochukwu must have felt that he had a good chance of starting at Brighton, although he has only started 2 Premier League games for Southampton, the last of which saw him being taken off at half time at Bournemouth back in September, he has also made 4 appearances off the bench, 3 of them in the last 4 games, including 38 minutes against Liverpool last time out.

But despite Russell Martin being without a number of midfield options for the trip to The Amex, Ugochukwu was not even on the bench and no reason was given for his absence.

Now The Mail Online has reported that the 20 year old midfielder has deleted all mention of Southampton from his instagram account.

His bio tags Chelsea, while all of his photos are either him playing for the London club or France, with some other personal shots added in, but now nothing about Southampton.

This suggests that some sort of disagreement has taken place which has resulted in his axing from the 20 man squad for the game at Brighton.

In his 9 man bench Russell Martin had just 1 midfielder in Joe Aribo to call upon, yet he had 2 central defenders on hand, plus James Bree who can also play there, 3 wide men in Ryan Fraser, Sam Amo - Ameyaw & Sulemana and an attacker in Ben Brereton Diaz, in what was a very unbalanced bench in terms of who positional options.

Charlie Taylor was also missing, assuming that he wasn't injured, his ability to play in several roles would surely have been a good option to bring in balance.

So what happens next, you would think that Saints would be keen to sent back Ugochukwu to Stamford Bridge and Maxwel Cornet to West ham, however that might not be as easy as it sounds, it is reliant on the parent clubs taking him back, something that they might not be keen to do unless they have another club who is willing to take them on and that might not be so easy given their lack of game time.

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sledger added 23:28 - Dec 1 death moves quicker than leslie,hes got as much chance of playing for chelsea as i have
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dirk_doone added 08:44 - Dec 2 Let's hope so. Cornet can keep him company on the way back to London.
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IanRC added 11:10 - Dec 2 I really hope so he adds nothing and frequently is caught in possession.
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stmichael added 11:15 - Dec 2 Get rid and get JWP back for 2nd half of the season..
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