Wolves Are In The Hunt For Southampton’s James Ward-Prowse

England star Ward-Prowse, 28, is set to leave Southampton this summer following the club’s relegation to the Championship.


West Ham, Newcastle and Aston Villa are on the free-kick specialist’s trail.


Now SunSport can exclusively reveal that Wolves are also keen. Saints are looking around for around £40million for their homegrown star.


The midfielder has spent his whole career at St Mary’s.


Ward-Prowse has racked up a massive 409 appearances for Saints and scored 55 goals.


Seventeen of those strikes have come from free-kicks in the Premier League.


That leaves Ward-Prowse just one shy of David Beckham’s record.


Perhaps his best set-piece goal of all came at Molineux in January 2022.


That was when he launched an exocet dead-ball missile from 30 yards during a 3-1 defeat for Saints.


The ace recently hit out at his Southampton teammates for not doing enough all season following their relegation.


Skipper Ward-Prowse backed the club to bounce straight back to the Premier League, but said standards have slipped from day one this season.


Southampton have sacked two managers and suffered a club record 24 defeats with two games left to go.


Ward-Prowse said as cited by Sports Central: "It's disappointing. It is a moment that has been coming. "We knew we had put ourselves in a difficult position. "When these things happen you go away individually and as a club and ask if you have done enough? I don't think we have. We talk about leaving things out there and ultimately that is why we are where we are now.


He added: "Have decisions been right? Have we been good enough on the pitch? Have we done enough as a team to progress? I believe we should be performing at a better level than we have done and we have not done that on a consistent basis. "From the first day of the season until now you can tell the standards have slipped. "I have been here right through from eight-years-old, for all the ups an downs. I'm sure with the good people at the club it will be back in the Premier League in no time.

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