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Southampton鈥檚 executive director of football, Les Reed, has told 大象传媒 Radio Solent that club captain Jose Fonte has handed in a transfer request.

The 33 yr-old has rejected new terms on his current contract offered to him in the summer after winning Euro 2016 with Portugal.

Fonte has maintained that he wants Saints to offer him a longer contract than the one he signed in October 2015, which has 18 months to run.

But Reed says he鈥檚 had the chance to sign an improved and extended deal, and Fonte has asked to leave the club:

鈥淲e haven鈥檛 had any bids for Jose and I don鈥檛 know whether we will or not. He鈥檚 contracted to us, he鈥檚 had several opportunities to improve the contract situation. He鈥檚 reserved his right not to do that, and made it very clear he would like to explore the opportunities for a transfer.

That鈥檚 where we are at the moment, Jose wants to leave the club. He鈥檚 formally asked for a transfer. He muted this earlier in the summer when he rejected the original offer to improve his contract, and has repeated it since, and in doing so has declined the opportunity to both improve and extend his contract. Those are the facts on the table. The other fact is we haven鈥檛 had any enquiries for him.鈥�

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