Puel was appointed as Saints boss last week and immediately made it clear he wanted to work closely with the youngsters and improve them as much as possible.

Reed, 21, told Southampton’s official YouTube channel: "Especially being one of those young players, it's important for the manager to come in and want to improve young players, and to put an emphasis on that is great for us.

“We've got a lot of quality players in the dressing room that are young. Obviously, we've got the senior boys who help us, so if we've got a manager also trying to help us that's brilliant.

"I imagine it does give everyone a bit more encouragement and want to go that extra yard to impress him. Obviously, if you have a manager coming in and not encouraging the youth and stuff like that it gets you down a little bit, but with a manager that's encouraging it then it looks really positive for us.”

Reed also gave an insight into how the first week or so of training sessions under Puel and his staff have been.

"It's been really good,” he said. “Obviously, with the new manager and the new staff coming in, everyone's been looking to impress him. We've been doing a lot of sessions and a lot of work on the training pitch, so it's been really good.

"It's a lot of technical stuff – short, sharp stuff around mannequins, just getting our feet moving. In the first few sessions we just want to get all the cobwebs out and get the technique back and stuff like that, and we've also been doing some small-sided games, which has been enjoyable for the lads.”





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