Southampton midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin is keen for manager Mauricio Pochettino to pen new terms.

If the new Saints board can persuade Pochettino to sign a fresh long-term contract and can invest money in the squad - despite the "difficult" financial situation they say they have inherited - then Schneiderlin believes there will be no reason for the club's best players to leave.

He told the Daily Echo: "If they say to the main players and to the gaffer 'Listen, we're going to make you sign a long-term contract, we're going to keep the main players in there, we're going to bring in three, four, five more players to improve that squad to be in the top six' then why not?

"Look how we played (at Manchester City). There's not much gap between us and the top five or six, so why not?

"But, like I say, there's many things they need to do."