Southampton manager Ronald Koeman has revealed that his players have been turning up to the club to train on their days off.
The Saints have started the 2014/15 season in fine fashion with three wins and a draw from their opening five Premier League fixtures and find themselves in the fourth round of the Capital One Cup after beating Arsenal on Tuesday night.
Wednesday was supposed to be a day off following the clash with the Gunners at the Emirates Stadium nut such is the commitment of the Southampton players that they asked to come to training according to the boss.
"The players showed a great ambition, because we planned last Wednesday as a day off after the Tuesday," said Koeman.
"But Jose Fonte said to me: 'Boss, we would like to come to train tomorrow'.
"I said 'But you have a day off, I've planned a lot of things with my wife!'
"But we changed it and we had a recovering session.
"I never had that - a team, a squad, say 'no day off' and that means a lot for me, that means a lot about the ambition of the players.
"We spoke to each other and said: 'OK, if you win against Queens Park Rangers, then you get that day off for next week', and we hope to win on Saturday."
