Southampton are preparing to launch an audacious bid to gatecrash the Premier League’s top four next season.
Saints’ hierarchy have served notice on Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal that one of them will not be planning for a Champions League campaign this time next year.
The south coast club expect to be big players in the transfer market during the summer and manager Mauricio Pochettino will sit down with executive chairman Nicola Cortese in the near future to discuss targets.
The Southampton boss has already told Chelsea to forget about making a £10million bid for exciting teenage left-back Luke Shaw and said: ‘Perhaps we will go and get some Chelsea players ourselves.’
Pochettino has also indicated he expects his side to improve and finish in the top four and now honorary president and former Southampton and England winger Terry Paine has joined in the optimistic view of the future.
When asked about the prospect of Champions League football in a couple of years, Paine said: ‘Why in a couple of years? It might be next year.
‘I think in football if you have to be something, you have to be optimistic – why not dream of big achievements, big goals?
‘We are an ambitious club and we have a clear way of how we want to proceed and the type of football we want to be playing, where there are means of getting that done.
‘Why not put in the effort, the imagination to make that happen and dream together to reach for the stars, why not?’
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