Everton Defender To Have Southampton Medical Today

It seems Saints are going to do some transfer business today, according to media reports, Everton defender Mason Holgate is

travelling to Southampton today for a medical and if successful will sign for Saints.

Everton fan site goodisonnews.com has spotted a tweet by journalist David Ornstein from The Athletic claiming that Mason Holgate

will be in Southampton today for his medical ahead of signing a season long loan deal at St Mary’s, although he also says that there will

be no option to buy at the end of it.

Holgate signing will not be surprising, it has been bubbling under for the last few weeks, although it had gone quiet of late.

Holgate is primarily a central defender, although he has also played for the Toffee’s at right back, so is comfortable in a back three as

well as a back four.

The two big questions that will be asked by Saints supporters now is firstly will the club still be pursuing the signing of Nathan Wood

from Swansea City and if so what that will mean for the two current central defenders Jack Stephens and Jan Bednarek.

Neither have been completely convincing in the opening games and certainly do not complement each other as a pair, we are too often

caught for pace at the back and a lack of organisation.

So does Russell Martin see Holgate and Wood as a pairing or are we now going to drop our interest in the Swansea man and bring in

Holgate to pair with one of the existing duo.

Everton fans seem to have no animosity towards Holgate, only disappointment that it hasn’t worked out for him Goodisonnews seem

to hope that he will rejuvenate his career at St Mary’s and return a better player who can recapture the form he showed a couple of seasons ago.

Certainly he doesn’t seem to be the type of player Sean Dyche likes to employ in the centre of his defence and since the ex Burnley

managers arrival he has played just 3 times out of the grand total of 8 appearances he made last season.

This season, so far down the pecking order is he under Dyche, that he hasn’t even been named on the bench in their two opening games.