• Former club-record signing banished from Saints’ first team
• Hughes: ‘Sofi made a mistake. He needs to rebuild a bit of trust’
Sofiane Boufal has been banished from Southampton’s first team after an altercation with Mark Hughes during the Premier League defeat by Chelsea and will not be considered for Saturday’s game against Bournemouth.
The Morocco midfielder, a £16m club-record signing from Lille in 2016, was a substitute against Chelsea at St Mary’s and is understood to have refused to warm up when Hughes instructed him to do so. That apparently led to a clash in the dressing room after Southampton, who had led 2-0 with 20 minutes to play, were defeated 3-2 – since when Boufal has not been in the squad.
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