| Over the weekend, Robb was linked with a number of clubs, but while he is prepared to let most of his experienced men move on as he bids to freshen up his squad, Alan admitted the wide midfielder was not on his list of possible departures.
“From our point of view, we have not had any inquiries about Steven, but I see clubs linked to him and I will have a word with him. From my point of view, he is definitely not a player I want to lose,” he said today.
“To be honest, I do not think I’ve seen the best of Steven in my time here, but I believe that is maybe down to the fact he has been trying too hard and needs to relax a wee bit.
“He is a very good player, though, and an important member of the squad and I do want to hang on to him.”
Alan’s bid to bring players in will continue with another scouting trip to England this week, but while he has also pencilled in a bounce game against Falkirk for Wednesday, there are unlikely to be any trialists involved.
“We’ll use that to give people match practice, though, with the weather we’ve had, there could be a doubt about the game going ahead,” he added.
“We were going to play it on Dens, but the surface cut up a lot and by the end on Saturday it was looking a bit sorry, so I would like to find another pitch to give it a chance to recover.”
The goalless draw with Ross County saw several players, Bobby Mann, Simon Lynch and young keeper Scott Murray among them, pick up knocks. At this stage, though, none of them are giving too much cause for concern.
And there was good news over the weekend of injured defender Lee Wilkie. His damaged knee was put through a strength test in Glasgow on Friday and the results were encouraging.
As a result, he was involved in part of the first-team training today.
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