Stephen Robinson has admitted he made a final ditch plea to lure Steven Davis to St Mirren earlier than the skilled midfielder penned a brand new one 12 months extension at Rangers.
Davis was anticipated to depart Ibrox this summer season after his contract expired however Giovanni van Bronckhorst and the board supplied the Northern Eire legend one other deal. Robinson believed he had an amazing likelihood of convincing Davis to affix the Paisley aspect because of the pair having labored collectively when the Buddies boss was a part of the worldwide teaching set-up.
However his try and land the skilled midfield man was in useless: “I used to be determined to signal him," he stated. "I hoped he wouldn’t get one other deal. There have been a variety of rumours that he was coming to St Mirren. I texted him to say, ‘Is there any fact that you're ?’ However he had already signed a contract with Rangers and I wasn’t stunned by that.
“Steven is a top-class individual and a top-class skilled and also you don’t get as many caps as he has with out being a unbelievable participant. The phrase ‘legend’ is thrown out too freely within the sport lately however for me he's a real soccer legend.”
Davis joined Rangers for a second spell in January 2019 on an preliminary mortgage earlier than making the deal everlasting. He has since gone on so as to add an extra Scottish Premiership title, Scottish Cup and a Europa League runners up medal to his accolade of being Britain’s most capped participant.
Whereas Robinson may’ve missed out on a reunion together with his countrymen Davis this time, he nonetheless has ambitions of managing Northern Eire someday after being pipped to the function by Ian Baraclough after Michael O’Neil departed for Stoke in 2020. He added: “By no means say by no means. I interviewed for it as soon as and didn’t get it.
“Clearly the powers that be didn’t assume it was my time however you get on together with your job at membership degree which I’m very very proud of. I've an amazing alternative at St Mirren and don't have any want to be in that place at this second in time, however who is aware of what's down the road.”
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