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- Updated: December 2, 2016
Claude Puel admits he does not know Southampton’s strongest team but says he prefers to rotate his starting line-ups.
Beyond consistently selecting Fraser Forster, Oriol Romeu and Virgil van Dijk, the Frenchman has regularly changed his starting team as he balances the side’s involvement in the Premier League, Europa League and EFL Cup.
Captain Jose Fonte has also been rotated and Puel was asked about the fact that the defender is yet to sign the contract he has been offered.
“I don’t know my first team with 11 players. My first team has 22 or 23 different players and this is important for me,” he said. “Jose has a contract and after I don’t speak about the contract of the players.
“It’s a story between the club and the …