Tyler Dibling was taken out of the Saints first team squad training with manager Will Still saying that his head was not in the right space due to the transfer rumours surrounding him, but a return is in the hands of the player.

There has been a lot of transfer speculation concerning Tyler Dibling, most of it instigated by his agents who have always seemed keen to move him to what they see as a bigger club, on the face of it putting their chances of earning bigger fee's ahead of the players development.

But the reality is that so far the only club to show any real interest has been Everton who are reported as having had several bids rejected.

Their recent signing of Jack Grealish on loan from Manchester City has cast doubts on whether Everton are still interested in Dibling.

Grealish's arrival will make it even more difficult for Dibling to get a place in the starting line up, an Everton supporter recently gave the opinion that if Dibling did plot up at Goodison, he would be 5th in line for the 2 wide attacking roles, behind Grealish, ex Saint Carlos Alacaraz, Iliman Ndiaye & Dwight McNeil.

The move would be attractive to his agents, but perhaps not now to Dibling who has always put his own personal development ahead of playing for a big club, at least up till now.

Ironically he would probably do well to take a look at Jack Grealish's career and how the man who now stands in his way to a place in the Everton first team stayed loyal to Aston Villa at a similar age to Dibling when they were relegated from the Premier League in 2016 and stayed for the 3 seasons that Villa spent in the Championship.

So if Everton cool their interest then Dibling has some decisions to make with seemingly no one else interested at the moment.

Now according to The Daily Echo Saints manager Will Still has revealed that the ball is now in Dibling's court as to whether he rejoins the squad, insisting that Dibling will be part of his plans if he remains at the club beyond the September 1 deadline and is open to welcoming him back sooner.

"I think as long as he's at the football club, he'll be involved. I think we've shown it with Matty Fernandes," Still explained about the starlet.

"But we just need to make sure that he's getting the right headspace and committed to what we're doing.

"If that's the case, over the next couple of days, if he wants to be a part of it and he wants to be involved, then he will be. But ultimately, it's pretty much down to him."

Dibling of course is young and his head is being turned by Everton's overtures, but that is no excuse, he could look at current Saints team mate Matteus Fernandes, the Portugese midfielder is only 19 months older than Dibling, and he too is being courted by a club wanting to pay big money for his signature in West Ham United.

But his attitude is light years ahead of Dibling, he has not trained apart because his head is being turned, he has featured in both of Saints two games so far and put in a shift, running his socks off and not shirking a tackle, if he can do it then so should Dibling or indeed any of our other players looking to move, but not in the squad such as Joe Aribo & Sam Edozie.

They are professionals, they signed contracts to play for Southampton FC and as long as they are at the club, the average Saints supporter in the stands if offered a job elsewhere, could not tell their current employers that they won't be in for the next week or so whilst they consider the offer or try to get their potential new employer to up the offer, so why should a so called professional footballer.

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