Everyone is massively down playing the Stewart situation in my opinion.
Stewart, Simms and Amad have scored 44% of our league goals this season - 29 in total, despite 2 of them not playing half a season.
We don't just need to replace that this summer, we need to score so much more to make up a 30 point gap between ourselves and the Champions position in this division.
I have all the faith in the world in our recruitment team finding young talent to develop, but making up that number of goals will take proven talent, or a higher pedigree than we're usually able to sign. Losing Stewart would be a huge blow.
I don't think it's down playing it mind. We HAVE managed without him, though obviously we'd have benefitted from his goals had he played.
But for me, it doesn't look like we are his priority. He shouldn't be ours if that is the case.