Southampton say Arsenal whizkid Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain came from a planned junior system.

Les Reed, the club's head of football development, insists it is only the start.

"Alex was not an accident," says Reed of a player sold at 17 to Arsenal for £12 million this summer in the Mail on Sunday. "Maybe at the next stage of our academy's development we'll have two Oxlade-Chamberlains in a single year, and then three."