Ward-Prowse to be gone within a year aswell. Southampton have a good recent history of selling and just bringing more through, Bale, Walcott and the Ox as examples, all be it the club was a t a different level then.
Great situation to be in if they can just produce some more, but we as fans get attached to players, hard to see how their fans can be "happy" with this opportunist ripping apart. I genuinely believe had the team stayed together and if the eye for talented foreigners continued they would have been a problem for some of the bigger teams in the future.