Victor Wanyama ‘different person’, says Southampton boss Koeman

Koeman believes it is only right that the window should close before the start of the season, so that such issues do not arise while competitive games are being played.

“I think they have to look to that”.

“Virjil’s strength is playing from the back and he’s part of a team now that like to dominate”.

“We know he has two more years on his contract, and maybe in the next few months the club will have a good time to talk to Victor about that”, said Koeman.

Koeman, who won 78 caps with the Oranje, was reportedly overlooked by the KNVB before they appointed Guus Hiddink previous year and he admits he still has aspirations to manage the Oranje. “I think that’s the most honest to do”.

Southampton manager Ronald Koeman has tried to put a rest to the Victor Wanyama transfer saga, saying the midfielder has “accepted he will stay” at the south coast club following their refusal to sell him to Tottenham Hotspur in the final days of the transfer window.

The Kenyan has now returned to Saints training and is fully focused on the task at hand. “I spoke to Victor and it was a different person yesterday – really different than he was in the last week of the transfer window”.

Goalkeeper Fraser Forster is continuing to work his way back from a serious patellar tendon injury suffered in March and Koeman said he was hopeful that the England worldwide could make a return before Christmas. “Whether that’s possible or not, I don’t know but the opportunity is there to do that”, he recently said.

“But Victor didn’t say anything about that…”

“I think ambition is always a good thing for a player, but okay it happened and I like to go forward”.

“He understands the situation; he understood how it was in the last week”.

“If the player shows real commitment to everybody at the club, I can forget what happened in the last week of the transfer window”, he concluded.