Ross Stewart

[S-Clarke]

It's the same argument as in the summer really, we cannot put all our eggs into the Ross Stewart basket. If we keep him around it should be on a deal which works for us, lower wage, shorter length, weighted towards appearances etc.

But we need to go out and buy a first choice striker, Stewart - if he stays - will be part of the squad, we need to go out and buy a Larin or similar who is going to be the main striker. We can't have a situation again where we are so poorly stacked up top with just Stewart as the only 'true' number 9 we have.

I'm somewhat discounting Downs as he's continued his 'non footballer' form at Hamburg too, so I think we can discount him ever being any use.

[Jack]

4 hours ago, Football Special said:

We're about to play a minimum of 8 games in a month, crazy schedule to end the season and we'll need Stewart to stay fit for as much of that as possible, he'll be keen to prove himself to earn another contract with us or elsewhere. Do we have an automatic option to extend? 

I feel like if he even plays half of the minutes from those 8+ games, we’re doing well out of him. Such a shame that he can’t be relied on and he can’t ever get a proper run of games to play himself into form. 
 

The other worry is we’re very reliant on Larin staying fit, he’ll need to chip in with a lot of minutes too. 

[pimpin4rizeal]

2 hours ago, Jack said:

I feel like if he even plays half of the minutes from those 8+ games, we’re doing well out of him. Such a shame that he can’t be relied on and he can’t ever get a proper run of games to play himself into form. 
 

The other worry is we’re very reliant on Larin staying fit, he’ll need to chip in with a lot of minutes too. 

For me jury is still out on larin as well, we know he’s a good physical presence but whether he can be a high scoring clinical striker is still a big question 

[Turkish]

6 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

It's the same argument as in the summer really, we cannot put all our eggs into the Ross Stewart basket. If we keep him around it should be on a deal which works for us, lower wage, shorter length, weighted towards appearances etc.

But we need to go out and buy a first choice striker, Stewart - if he stays - will be part of the squad, we need to go out and buy a Larin or similar who is going to be the main striker. We can't have a situation again where we are so poorly stacked up top with just Stewart as the only 'true' number 9 we have.

I'm somewhat discounting Downs as he's continued his 'non footballer' form at Hamburg too, so I think we can discount him ever being any use.

But we did go out and buy a first choice striker, unfortunately he was absolute pony.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

But we did go out and buy a first choice striker, unfortunately he was absolute pony.

I genuinely think he’s the worst outfield player I’ve ever seen for us in 40+ years.

That includes Ali Dia, Lee Todd, David Lee and Scott Marshall (OG).

Makes Keith Cassells look like Didier Drogba. 

Edit - worst I’ve ever seen in professional football. And I’ve seen some shit players for the likes of Cheltenham Town, Torquay United etc.

Edited 11 minutes ago by Gloucester Saint