Ross Stewart - Official: Signs for Swansea

[BarberSaint]

1 hour ago, Lighthouse said:

What is it they say, the longest two letter word in the English language?

"No"?

[saintant]

1 hour ago, St Chalet said:

If he stays fit for 3 years it's a great signing.

If he stays fit for 3 years it's a miracle.

[LiberalCommunist]

If he plays 30 games this season then we lost out big time, if he manages just 12, then we'll feel justified with his departure. 

Either way though, he's gone now. And nothing changes that. 

[LGTL]

13 minutes ago, saintant said:

If he stays fit for 3 years it's a miracle.

More like 3 minutes. 

[Colinjb]

I don't blame him looking for long term stability.

It does leave a poor aftertaste though after we stood by him. He made me eat my words, believing he was broken only for him to absolutely show himself to still be capable.

[disconnect]

3 years is a miracle for someone with his injury record. 2 with an option for a third may be realistic to get him to sign for them, but if it’s 3 straight up, he’s done very well to get that. I imagine he’ll now go on to have his best 3 seasons in the past 4 years (and only miss 2 months of each season) 🤣

Good player, but injury waiting to happen! 

[SNSUN]

Agent has played a blinder there, found the loophole then got his client more money and a longer deal. I'm not that fussed, I thought Larin was better in the second half of the season anyway.

Farewell LND. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

He gone for the best deal he can get. I wish him...well, the form that always works in our interests.

[CSA96]

 

[YouStags]

I genuinely don't see what others do in Stewart. Scored a few but not many, and too injury prone to be relied upon. Completely indifferent to him going to Swansea.

[Weston Super Saint]

Good luck to Ross. Hopefully people can let it go now!!

[stknowle]

4 hours ago, CSA96 said:

Swansea have given Ross a contract until 2029

 

 

They misspelt Jock. Fair play to Ross for getting a 3 year deal. If that’s what he wanted from us I 100% get why we weren’t prepared to give it to him. I really liked him when he was finally fit, IF he stays that way Swansea have a top top signing. 

[saintant]

12 minutes ago, stknowle said:

They misspelt Jock. Fair play to Ross for getting a 3 year deal. If that’s what he wanted from us I 100% get why we weren’t prepared to give it to him. I really liked him when he was finally fit, IF he stays that way Swansea have a top top signing. 

According to Spors at the fans forum Ross was unable to commit 100% to the club after spygate and he only wanted players who were able to do so. He implied this was more the reason he moved on than this 5 day period before we were expelled from the Play Off final. Seems there was more to it than came out at the time if Spors is to be believed.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

45 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Good luck to Ross. Hopefully people can let it go now!!

But...why Blackburn of all places? 🙂

[Eric The Red]

54 minutes ago, stknowle said:

They misspelt Jock. Fair play to Ross for getting a 3 year deal. If that’s what he wanted from us I 100% get why we weren’t prepared to give it to him. I really liked him when he was finally fit, IF he stays that way Swansea have a top top signing. 

Agreed a 3 year deal is an insanely good deal for Ross. He's probably on a lower wage than we offered but doubt he would would have been guaranteed more than 1 year from Saints.

[Weston Super Saint]

13 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

But...why Blackburn of all places? 🙂

Beggars can't be choosers 🤷‍♂️

[Wade Garrett]

He’s a c*nt.

[Saint Pete]

6 hours ago, saintant said:

According to Spors at the fans forum Ross was unable to commit 100% to the club after spygate and he only wanted players who were able to do so. He implied this was more the reason he moved on than this 5 day period before we were expelled from the Play Off final. Seems there was more to it than came out at the time if Spors is to be believed.

I guess there are 2 sides to every story and we have not heard both. I imagine Stewart might see it that Saints weren't 100% committed to him when they chose not to trigger the extension at any earlier point before we were expelled from the play offs?

Whatever, time to move on now. It's not the end of the world that Stewart hasn't stayed - he wasn't our most important player and would always have been a risk with his injury record - just as long as he is replaced with a striker of equal or better abilities to help the team. Over to you Johannes!

[wild-saint]

6 hours ago, Saint Pete said:

I guess there are 2 sides to every story and we have not heard both. I imagine Stewart might see it that Saints weren't 100% committed to him when they chose not to trigger the extension at any earlier point before we were expelled from the play offs?

Whatever, time to move on now. It's not the end of the world that Stewart hasn't stayed - he wasn't our most important player and would always have been a risk with his injury record - just as long as he is replaced with a striker of equal or better abilities to help the team. Over to you Johannes!

Exactly this, it looks to me that we weren’t intending to activate the additional year if we went up otherwise we would have done it already.if we wanted him to stay we could have matched the 3 year deal but didnt see the value. No big deal and obviously have alternative options that the club see as better value.

[swedish dave]

Interesting recent survey showed that Swansea had one of the lowest salary bills in

the Championship. If they've given RS ´...a 3 year deal (!) regardless of the salary, they 

ought to hope that he stays fit enough to go the course. Bearing in mind that Saints spent 

2 years trying to get him fully fit.  Swansea may have got him for free (as against our investment ) 

 but it's also a warning ...as we've been down that road with him before......

Edited 5 hours ago by swedish dave