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title: "Southampton: Fans slam Takumi Minamino"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/southampton-saints-takumi-minamino-leicester-city-ralph-hasenhuttl-st-marys-stadium/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "jonathan radcliffe"
section: "Premier League"
published: "2021-05-01T11:10:52Z"
modified: "2021-05-01T11:10:52Z"
---

# Southampton: Fans slam Takumi Minamino

**Southampton fans were livid with the performance of Takumi Minamino during their 1-1 draw with Leicester City on Friday night.**

The Saints picked up a point against Champions League chasers Leicester despite being down to 10 men for much of the match when Jannik Vestergaard was sent off early on. James Ward-Prowse even gave the St. Mary’s Stadium outfit the lead from the penalty spot before Jonny Evans equalised in the second half.

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However, despite the positive result, the fans were far from happy with the performance of £10.8m-valued Japan international Minamino ([Transfermarkt](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/takumi-minamino/marktwertverlauf/spieler/165793)). He completed a poor 58% of his attempted passes, while he won just three out of 11 duels ([SofaScore](https://www.sofascore.com/southampton-leicester-city/GsV)). Liverpool have spoken to Ralph Hasenhuttl and co about Minamino’s lack of playing time ([Hampshire Live](https://www.hampshirelive.news/sport/football/football-news/southampton-liverpool-minamino-jurgen-klopp-5357895)), but they can hardly complain based on this performance.

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The Southampton fans were far from happy with the former Red Bull Salzburg forward, and they took to social media platform Twitter to share their thoughts on his display.

### **Let’s see what the fans had to say about Minamino below**

**“can he send Minamino off and do us a favour?? He might be our worst loan signing ever and we had Taider!”**

Credit: [@SaintStu19](https://twitter.com/SaintStu19/status/1388224360243253254)

**“Minamino isn’t actually that good is he, would prefer to see Moussa play tbh”**

Credit: [@jamiepang](https://twitter.com/jamiepang/status/1388223626692939778)

**“Minamino offering nothing at present”**

Credit: [@jase1962](https://twitter.com/jase1962/status/1388230060101050371)

**“Minamino clearly has talent going forward but his off the ball work rate is shocking. It’s no surprise that Klopp sent him out on loan”**

Credit: [@miserygutscoop](https://twitter.com/miserygutscoop/status/1388230628341166082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1388230628341166082%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fmiserygutscoop2Fstatus2F1388230628341166082widget%3DTweet)

**“Well no because Minamino and Redmond did absolutely nothing and didn’t have any effect on the result.”**

Credit: [@sfc\_kristian](https://twitter.com/sfc_kristian/status/1388238002128818178)

**“Minamino 7?? He was awful!!”**

Credit: [@PhilWiseman1979](https://twitter.com/PhilWiseman1979/status/1388239922042228750)

***In other news, [Southampton fans are gutted at this Hasenhuttl reveal.](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/southampton-fc-news/southampton-saints-sam-mcqueen-ralph-hasenhuttl-st-marys-stadium-middlesbrough/)***