That pretty much was Walker until Poch turned him into a quality FB. If a player has that raw pace and a manager is able to coach them into being more technical and smarter with/ without the ball they can become a proper decent player. We've done pretty well over the years buying English talent too so wouldn't necessarily say the fanbase is obsessed with bang average talent.
Yeah he probably was but all of those Southampton players were very good back then, it's why they got raped by Pool for most of them, lol. He's definitely better than what we've got though, so on that front he should be a decent enough signing, just think we could do better. Arsenal keep being linked with Partey... That's a game changer if they get him.