Daily Echo:

SAINTS have signed rookie goalkeeper Jack Rose on a one-year contract.

The 22-year-old stopper was previously at West Bromwich Albion, spending his youth career there before being released in June having not made an appearance for the first team.

Rose spent time on loan at Accrington Stanley, making his professional debut there in the FA Cup, before heading to Crawley, again on a loan deal.

He arrives to bolster the club's under-23s' 'keeper options with Harry Lewis currently on loan at Dundee United and Paulo Gazzaniga likely to move before the end of the transfer window.

Rose said: “I came in for a week or so to get a feel for the place and show them what I could do and I’m excited to be here now.

“Everyone knows about the reputation Southampton have in bringing through young players and they give you opportunities.

“It makes it more real when you see the young players being given chances in the first-team so that’s one of my goals.

“There is a great pool of goalkeepers here who I can learn from to develop my game.

"Fraser is an England international, Stuart Taylor has a lot of experience and I trained with Alex McCarthy in the week –he was really good with me.

“Dave Watson has been with England and is brilliant at what he does, so I can’t wait to get going.”