Southampton chairman Ralph Krueger says the club have no need to offload the likes of Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana this summer. Liverpool and Tottenham have both been linked with Lallana, while Chelsea consider his England team-mate Shaw.
He told the Daily Echo: "First of all, it's very clear that we are in control. We are in control of all the player transfers. All the top players are under long term contracts.
"Any transfers that take place will be under our terms. We will decide the terms to potential transfers in and out of the club.
"We will involve the manager. That is important for everybody to know. That's why we have been able to not agree to any transfers to date, because we have control of the situation, and anybody who is saying anything else doesn't understand that we are in a strong position with the Saints."
Krueger added: "We, after many months now, are extremely pleased with the foundation that we have here. We said from the start that we have to roll up our sleeves and work very hard and we have been doing that behind the scenes. There are some things that aren't really sexy for the fans but are really important for the health and stability of the club.
"We have an outstanding new chief commercial officer in Martin Semmens, the owner and founder of Elvis Communications in London, who's building our commercial department.
"We have Kate Terry, the new head of marketing, moving to us from Apple in London and a new chief financial officer coming.
"Our executive board level has been rebuilt with Les (Reed) heading up the sports, Gareth (Rogers) as the CEO and with these two new appointments we have an unbelievable new and strong foundation built on the people we already found here. There's a lot of good things happening in the club."
