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Russell Martin has Ross Stewart as his main target **Transfer confirmed **


MadMackem10 said:
I agree that’s point I’m making I think the club are stuck between a rock and hard place. Some people are saying we should throw daft money at him as we can’t replace him. But if he comes back crocked no-one will want him and we’ll be stuck with a high earner
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He’s not crocked if Southampton are willing to pay £8m. They may have money but c’mon.
 
Stewart should have had a new contract or at least a pay negotiation when we got promoted. No one saw the injury coming but if he's still on the same contract as when we signed him from Ross County it's poor man management from the club to let it get to this stage. If we did offer him improved terms and he turned it down fair enough but it just seems to have been left to fester with no conclusion.
 
Shibby Safc said:
They wouldn't have to, as he'd be on a free
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Not until the summer and there is no guarantee he comes back the same player. If he has a poor season and barely scores goals southampton will just move on. I think he’s been badly advised all along and should have signed a new deal with us when he got injured.
 
Ziggy63 said:
Stewart should have had a new contract or at least a pay negotiation when we got promoted. No one saw the injury coming but if he's still on the same contract as when we signed him from Ross County it's poor man management from the club to let it get to this stage. If we did offer him improved terms and he turned it down fair enough but it just seems to have been left to fester with no conclusion.
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He would have got a rise with promotion. He’ll be on around £5k per week minimum.
 
Turnip from the Tip said:
Some of that may well be true (or it might not). Another perfectly valid argument would be that this should have been sorted out a year ago. Either the club should have backed him to become prolific in the championship or at worst once that became evident.

The first injury for example - not a serious one and a break from playing to get it done. Instead they made a paltry offer from which it has dragged on and on.

I’ve used this example before but when Fulham went down 2 years ago they put Mitrovic on top money to keep his goals and pretty much make promotion a gimme. Cost them £100k a week. Yes they had parachute money to do that and I’m not suggesting we paid Stewart that kind of money but if it’s true we offered him in the region of £10k that’s an insult. 25-30 goals a season at this level is a wage of 30k per week minimum. If we can’t find that sort of money for Ross Stewart then it’s a sad indictment of where the club is right now. No bigger than a Preston North End, a Cardiff city or a QPR.
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This.

Unfortunately, right now, financially speaking, we are in fact on the same level as those 3 you mentioned.

Many forget that.
 
HettonSAFC said:
He’s not crocked if Southampton are willing to pay £8m. They may have money but c’mon.
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Nixon made a very good point the other day, that the medical will be crucial for any potential deal.

He said they were massively put off when they heard he was out until end of September but couldn’t get other targets and now will be desperate for another striker is che adams does leave.
 
Ziggy63 said:
Stewart should have had a new contract or at least a pay negotiation when we got promoted. No one saw the injury coming but if he's still on the same contract as when we signed him from Ross County it's poor man management from the club to let it get to this stage. If we did offer him improved terms and he turned it down fair enough but it just seems to have been left to fester with no conclusion.
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He’s had a contact sat there for ages
 
Robanner said:
Agreed he’s not signing a contract. If he doesn’t go now he won’t leave in January, as he’ll be but a few months away from being a free agent.

We need to sell now. As usual we’ve screwed this right up.
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I think the clubs ability to get a good deal has been screwed right up by the timing of Stewart’s Achilles injury.
 
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