Players were always going to leave after being relegated from the Premier League, but we are now seeing the plans laid by the recruitment team come to fruition.
Yes, you want to keep your best players, but we all realise that Southampton are not the top team of the South Coast now.
Brighton are an established Premier League club. Bournemouth are an established Premier League side. In the last three seasons, we have been a Championship side for two of those.
I see us as very much in a rebuilding stage. We are in a transition period where we have to try and get back to being that more dominant, regular Premier League side again.
Southampton have completed the signing of Casper Jander._(Image: Southampton FC/Matt Watson)_
It's getting tougher, and losing your best players like Mateus Fernande and Tyler Dibling make that harder, but you also cannot expect to keep them if you've been relegated.
Fernandes was brilliant for us in the Premier League last year and gets his move back to the division he strives to play in. His exit allows us to overhaul the squad.
Providing all of the deals come off, Saints will sign four players - Finn Azaz, Tom Fellows, Caspar Jander and Leo Scienza with the money raised by selling Fernandes. That's good business.
Azaz seems like an exciting signing. You can't change every single player, clearly, but the squad needed a definite redirection, I think Azaz can be a symbol of that.
Fellows knows this division too, but I cannot say I know all that much about Jander and Scienza - I trust that technical director Johannes Spors does, however.
Hopefully, the new signings, along with Mads Roerselv, who arrived last week, can allow Still to switch to the back four system he has always wanted to use.
Mads Roerslev made his Saints debut as a substitute in Saturday's defeat to Stoke City_(Image: Stuart Martin)_
I know the boss is not obsessed with formations; in fact, he's the total opposite, but adding a player to the top line can certainly help us.
It remains to be seen who we have available to us against Watford at the time of writing, meaning some new signings could make their debuts against Pompey.
If any of the players had no idea about the rivalry before coming into the club, the topic of conversation, I would imagine from the minute the whistle blows tomorrow afternoon, everything will be looking towards that game.
I know there'll be one or two players going off on international duty, but the focus will very much firmly switch to that game.
It will do within the club, but very much for every single supporter as well. It's all everyone's going to be talking about for the next few weeks.
That being said, nobody will be looking past Watford this afternoon. Like us, they have claimed a win, a draw and a defeat from their first three games this season.
I'm hoping we can make a similar start at Vicarage Road to the one we made in 2019, when Shane Long scored the fastest goal in Premier League history.
Having beaten Norwich City 3-0 in the cup last week, who themselves knocked out Watford in the previous round, this is a chance to keep the goals flowing.
And with new faces coming into the building over the coming days, the players who start this afternoon know that their shirt is up for grabs.
That should serve as extra motivation, but new signings also lift the group. Most players are happy to see further quality join the ranks.