Morgan Schneiderlin has hailed the market work of Southampton after their impressive start to the season.
The 24-year-old has started the season fantastically, following up a brace in the win at West Ham with a fine curling effort at the end of Saturday's 4-0 defeat of Newcastle - against whom six of Saints' eight summer signings started.
"They have a very good scouting department and they took some very good players and players who will integrate into the philosophy of the club," Schneiderlin said.
"Nice people who want to work hard and everything, and that's all well done to them.
"Losing players like Luke Shaw, like Rickie Lambert, like Adam Lallana, like Dejan Lovren, it's something that's very hard to replace and after four games we are happy.
"But we need to make a judgement at the end of the season, or in six months. We have to stay with our feet on the ground, keep working and then doing our best, but it's at the end of the year that everyone's going to judge us."
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