Here he picks his top 16 youth recruits and explains why – in no particular order...
5. Kit Symons - Scholarship 1987
'Simply a good footballer and a great centre-half. I had a fight with Arsenal to get him.' Picture: Steve Morton, EMPICS Photo: Steve Morton
6. Matt Ritchie - Scholarship 2006
'I promised him at 14 that he would get his apprenticeship aged 16. Such a talent - and I knew Southampton wanted him.' Picture: Allan Hutchings Photo: Allan Hutchings
7. Steve Claridge - Scholarship 1982
'With his back to goal, he was one of the best I had ever seen on the football pitch. Play the ball into him and it would stick.' Photo: None
8. Darren Anderton - Scholarship 1988
'As a kid he was all arms and legs, like a giraffe, Bambi on ice. I knew he'd make it.' Picture: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images Photo: Shaun Botterill
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