Mauricio Pellegrino believes it could be a good week for Saints as they try and tie up a £50m double swoop for Quincy Promes and Guido Carrillo.

The club have already been boosted by a spirited draw at Tottenham, and could get a significant lift if Les Reed can deliver two new faces in the coming days.

Pacy Dutch winger Promes could obliterate the club’s transfer record if he arrives from Spartak Moscow for a fee of around £30m, while big Argentinian striker Carrillo is a potential £20m transfer from Monaco.

“Hopefully next week will be a good week for us,” said Pellegrino.

“In the market anything can change in one second. It’s like football.

“Negotiation is about two sides and you have limitations to arrive at a point and then you need the other part to do the job.”

The result against Spurs has eased the pressure on Pellegrino, who had joked being a manager is like sitting in an electric chair.

“We use it as a joke,” he smiled.

“They ask if I am worried about my job but the manager is the easier employee to lose, because we depend on results. We use this as a joke.

“It’s really difficult to be seated in the same chair a lot of time.”

As if to prove it, Watford sacked Marco Silva, who had been a potential for the Saints job before going to Vicarage Road.

“I have to respect the decision because I don’t know what happened in this club,” said Pellegrino.

“The biggest risk in football is to work in football.

“If the sense of everything that this is a game but the problem is we hear budgets, and money, and you will buy players, and we think it’s a match.

“The sense of everything this is a game. If you don’t want to lose don’t play the game.

“I am not afraid to lose my job to be honest because it’s part of our life.

“I play football from ten-years-old and when you win you have to win again, when you draw you have to win, when you lose you have to win. The question is always the same.

“I play for teams and was very lucky because I was champion a lot of years, but even when you are the best on Monday you have to train to be the best again. It’s never finished.

“It’s part of our life and I have got this feeling for a lot of years.

“I have fears for the health of my family, not for my job.

“I enjoy doing my job in a difficult moment.”

Saints were without Shane Long with flu and Maya Yoshida with a hamstring injury but Pellegrino said: “Friday and Saturday (Yoshida) has been training high intensity.

“It would have been a risk to put him on the bench but this week I think he will be ready.”