With 29 days of the transfer window behind us, Southampton are yet to make a signing.

This comes despite the promise of Ralph Hasenhuttl, who said towards the end of December that the Saints “will do something” about the full-back positions in the market.

It may have taken almost the entirety of January, but that declaration may be about to come true after The Sun revealed that Southampton have beaten Crystal Palace to the signing of Kyle Walker-Peters.

The 22-year-old’s arrival would be a welcome one at right-back, seeing as Cedric has been sidelined with a knee injury whereas Yan Valery has been missing since November with an ‘ongoing illness’.

However, while he would provide much-needed depth, there are some concerns over the England U21 international.

For a start, Tottenham’s willingness to let him depart, despite the fact that his exit would leave Serge Aurier as the club’s only natural right-back, is alarming.

The Ivorian isn’t the most assured player in the world, and is liable to the odd brain-fart or two, so the fact that Jose Mourinho has played the former Paris Saint-Germain full-back in all of his games as Tottenham boss and hasn’t given Walker-Peters a single second of Premier League action since his arrival on November 20th is telling.

Even under the former Chelsea and Manchester United boss’ predecessor Mauricio Pochettino, Walker-Peters was not fancied – in fact, the Spurs academy graduate has played just 242 league minutes all season.

The former Southampton manager handed the Tottenham No.16 just three Premier League starts – all coming in the first three outings of the campaign – before sticking him back on the bench in preference of Aurier.

Who is that?! Nobody has been able to name the teams all of these obscure managers were once in charge of…

For the north Londoners to be happy to leave themselves in a rather precarious position in terms of right-back depth and wave goodbye to Walker-Peters should signal red flags for Hasenhuttl over his impending arrival.

Why on Earth was he not fancied by either Pochettino or Mourinho? Well, the St Mary’s faithful could be about to find out…

In other news, these Southampton fans were left fuming at this “embarrassing” & “disgraceful” news…