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Rising England stars Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana look set to stay at Southampton this summer after executive director Les Reed strongly reaffirmed on Friday the club's intention to keep their star players.

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SOUNDBITE (English): Les Reed, Southampton executive director:

"As we stand, there have been no enquiries and we have had no bids and there have been no offers for any of our players. So that is accurate, that is the truth and that is exactly where we are. So reports that we are about to close deals on certain players and so on, and totally misinformed, misleading and are not true. No club has been given permission to talk to any of our players. So reports that some of our players are in the process of negotiating stellar transfer fees or contracts are absolutely misinformed."