Ross Stewart contract talks

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monty987 said:
So who would replace him?
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Hopefully that will be where the recruitment team comes in, the problem we have as supporters is we will never see enough football to pick up on potential players, yes there will be some players that we will come across at this level that we think would be decent, but had any one picked Ross Stewart as a top striker for us to sign.
I remember when we first signed him there were a couple of posters suggesting how **** he was.
We have made some exciting signings of late but if I'm honest I'd never heard of 90% of them till they signed.
If Stewart does leave we will all speculate as to who we should sign, I just very much doubt we would ever predict who it would be and further more probably wouldn't of heard of them anyway
 
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TopCat_ said:
Couldn't disagree more. Self sustainable can also lead to profit and promotion. It all hinges (IMHO) on recruitment - if you can buy a Stewart for 350k or a Cirkin for 900k, develop them then sell them on for £5-10m which gets reinvested into the team to find more hidden gems, or established players then you can still be successful. The last thing we want is KLD to be financing the club every year like Short was because that smacks of bad recruitment and financial management.
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Well KLD has categorically ruled out splurge spending, so that will not be happening!

As for Ross, I imagine he'll be off if there is a proper, serious offer put in, unless clubs are waiting to see how he comes back from his injury. We'll just have to hope in that case that they have the situation covered, which in fairness they have been pretty good at for a while now, though this will be a big test of the recruitment set up.

Ross might only get this one chance to set himself up for life. He was probably earning lower than many of us when he came here, so standing in his shoes, you can see the attraction if say Everton came in for him and he gets a 3 or 4 year deal on Premier league cash.

Love to see him stay though.
 
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rowley said:
Well KLD has categorically ruled out splurge spending, so that will not be happening!

As for Ross, I imagine he'll be off if there is a proper, serious offer put in, unless clubs are waiting to see how he comes back from his injury. We'll just have to hope in that case that they have the situation covered, which in fairness they have been pretty good at for a while now, though this will be a big test of the recruitment set up.

Ross might only get this one chance to set himself up for life. He was probably earning lower than many of us when he came here, so standing in his shoes, you can see the attraction if say Everton came in for him and he gets a 3 or 4 year deal on Premier league cash.

Love to see him stay though.
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I wouldn't blame him at all. my only worry is that he'll be lining up against us next season because Everton are ****ing gash with Lampard in charge
 
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Charley Farley said:
*Just seen your post young2077 after putting this up.

If our plan is to find promising young players, coach them and when they start playing good, sell them, then use the money to find other promising young players, how will we improve?
When Ba, Bennette and Michut start playing well will they be sold off?
Selling Ross may bring a lump sum in but how much of that sum will be used to get other players in and will they be an improvement on Ross or more ‘promising young players’

Will we be a team with lots of inexperienced but promising players, continuously learning but sold when they improve.
It begs the question, why don’t other clubs cut out the middle man, get these players and improve them.

If we keep selling our best players (like Stewart, Clarke, Cirkin, Neil and others often mentioned) we will never get anywhere.
We may make a bit money but surely we need to hang on to our better players.

I think KLD mentioned using any money if we sell Stewart to buy a better player. Anyone see a flaw in that reasoning?
We might get lucky now and then (Stewart for Wyke did work) but more often it ends up as someone like Grigg
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I dont agree with the 'more often it ends up as someone like Grigg', that was before we had this recruitment team in place. This recruitment has found some quality players and I have no doubt they'll continue to do so. Brentford is a great example to look at, they sold Maupay then replaced him with Watkins, then sold him and replaced him with Toney. They sold Watkins for a decent amount of money then they used that money to bring in Toney as well as several other quality players to improve the overall squad. Thats the key, if we sell some of the players you mentioned then we have to ensure the money is used to improve the team/squad with real quality - I trust our recruitment team to get that right
 
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TopCat_ said:
He's not a mag, but he's definitely a ****er
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He comes across as giddy as **** when talking about them. And seems to take pride in upsetting SAFC fans. He may not be a “mag” per say, but he definitely loves them

howling before the Twitter “sack the board” meltdown or the “Donald is still running SAFC” brigade get their heads up
 
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