Southampton legend Mick Channon has slammed Calum Chambers for a lack of desire after the young full-back completed a move to Arsenal yesterday.
Chambers made 21 appearances for the Saints in a breakthrough 2013-14 campaign, but after just one season of first-team football, the 19-year-old has left his boyhood club.
Despite joining a side who will compete in next year's Champions League, Channon has said that he believes Chambers would have developed more as a player with regular first-team football at Southampton.
Channon told talkSPORT: "What sort of ambition have these players got if they are going to go to these clubs, sit on their backsides and get splinters in their backside? I can't see the sense of it.
"The culture of football now seems to be getting as much money as you can, no matter whether you play on a Saturday. That is the worry for me.
"Why do Arsenal want him? I just don't understand it. He would be better off learning his trade at Southampton. The lack of players wanting to play every Saturday is the biggest disappointment I have. The players' attitude these days is, 'I will go for the money and sit on my backside and play 25, 30 games a year.'"
Chambers became the fifth player to leave St Mary's this summer, after Luke Shaw left for Manchester United, and Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert and Dejan Lovren joined Liverpool.
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