Man Utd and Liverpool circle Saints stars Shaw and Lallana

Southampton's young England stars could move on for a combined fee of almost £50m

Luke Shaw

THE football season has ended and the World Cup is looming, two sure signs that the holiday season is almost upon us. Another sign that summer has arrived is the usual welter of scare stories about sharks sighted off the south coast, and this year fans of Southampton have every reason to believe them.

No sooner had Saints stars Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana been named in Roy Hodgson's World Cup squad than they were being circled by predators.

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Bill Mann is a football correspondent for The Week.co.uk, scouring the world's football press daily for the popular Transfer Talk column.