Southampton managing director Toby Steele says improving St Mary's remains on the agenda.

The club posted a loss of £34million for the year ending June 2019, with the previous set of accounts resulting in a £29million profit.

But Steele told the Daily Echo: “The stadium is nearly 20 years old and we are on a cycle of maintenance that takes up a fair amount of our capital expenditure budget.

“Fans don't always see what we do but we have to do it.

“The bits that people do see, whether that's the LED boards we put in, the sound system and the 1885 Lounge, we want to continue doing all of that.

“Every year we earmark things to do and we are looking at a couple of projects to do now but whether that's this summer or the next one, we always want to bring fans new and exciting things.

“We know we can't continue to offer the same thing year after year because we need to do new things to keep the fans coming and to also bring new fans to the ground."