Russell Martin’s side is aiming to compete for promotion to the Premier League this year at the first attempt.
The Saints haven’t quite had the consistency to maintain the pace with the top two so far, but they are still in the mix for a top six finish.
The team’s form in front of goal will be key to their promotion push, with Adam Armstrong and Che Adams playing important roles in the squad.
With Ross Stewart still yet to feature for the team, the two forwards are being relied upon up front.
Here we look at how their expected transfer value (xTV) compares as the club competes for promotion back to the top flight…
Football Transfers leads the way in calculating xTV, with their website also offering an explanation as to how it works.
“In association with FootballTransfers, SciSports calculates Expected Transfer Values (xTV) for more than 240,000 professional football players in over 250 leagues,” writes the Football Transfers website.
“They do this by using a machine learning model that is trained on around 600,000 historical transfers to find patterns in the transfer fees paid for transfers in the past.
“In combination with other influential attributes this results in authentic player valuations that are updated every month.
“Their model is built to best represent the intrinsic value of a player based on historic and futuristic on-pitch added value under free market circumstances.”
This model takes into account information such as player age, position, performance (both current and past), experience, league strength and contract situation.
