Southampton chief Les Reed feels they're in control during this summer's transfer window.

Reed is pleased that, while this summer has been busy, it has not been as wild as last year's was.

“I think it's not as frantic, it's not as turbulent, and the other side of it is, in addition to raids on our players, there were all sorts of other rumours going around about the future of the club, the ownership, Mauricio [Pochettino]," he told the Daily Echo.

“We aren't surrounded by all of that hysteria that we were last year.

“It's more like a normal manic transfer window, because everyone says the same – transfer windows are so unpredictable, because one thing happens and it triggers something else.

“That's why we think we have a good structure in place whereby we plan for all eventualities and therefore we can react quite quickly to things, or we can be quite proactive.

“We have got our ducks in a row, let's move on and like we said last year let's wait until we play Newcastle at the start of the season and at that point we can see if we have been successful or unsuccessful."