Kevin Rutkiewicz admits it's "50/50" that East Kilbride will be capable of maintain on to a trio of mortgage stars within the new 12 months.
Motherwell defender Logan Dunachie, Kilmarnock goalkeeper Curtis Lyle and St Mirren defender Luke Kenny are all approaching the top of their short-term offers in January.
The Kilby boss is decided to maintain them at Okay-Park till the top of the season as they bid for the Lowland League title and promotion to the SPFL, however the ultimate resolution shall be out of his fingers and he admits it's up within the air whether or not all three will play on into 2023.
Rutkiewicz, whose facet shut out 2022 on Friday evening away to Cumbernauld Colts, stated: “Now we have bought just a few mortgage offers to debate with Logan Dunachie, Luke and Curtis Lyle’s mother or father golf equipment to see the lay of the land with them.
“We have to see what the mother or father golf equipment are pondering for his or her mortgage gamers, come January, as a result of the panorama would change for us, so it's going to positively be a busy couple of weeks for us.
“We’ve already touched base with the golf equipment. Curtis is out of contract with Kilmarnock and his contract is not going to be renewed there so he's in a barely totally different place to the remainder of the gamers as a result of he's going to turn out to be a free agent.
“He has bought a giant resolution to make, coming from full-time soccer, so what does he do?
“We are going to sit down with Curtis and have a chat with him.
“Huge Logan has performed about 75 per cent of the video games since he has been right here, and been a very good addition for us.
“I spoke to Stuart Kettlewell [Motherwell’s lead development coach], simply briefly, about plans for Logan.
“Motherwell know he’s not been concerned within the final couple of squads and while you method the window, they'll have a look at the latest historical past.
“I’ve bought to clarify to them that there's a real probability of Logan being concerned going ahead and I’ve bought to current that argument to them.
“I’ve bought a troublesome job when everyone seems to be match.
“Gary Miller is our captain however he has not made the final couple of squad as a result of I’ve felt the stability of our squad has been fairly good and I didn’t need to change it too swiftly.
“So there’s troublesome selections to be made and I’m 50/50 on the entire mortgage gamers, when it comes to if we will preserve them.
“We are going to wait and see what occurs.
“With Luke Kenny, he has not lengthy arrived and once we spoke to Diarmuid O’Carroll [the St Mirren assistant manager] about that one, we agreed that as a result of it's such a brief mortgage [a one-month deal] initially, we'll focus on it nearer the January 10 deadline on his deal.”
Rutkiewicz hopes to seek out out as quickly as attainable the place issues stand so he could make strikes within the switch market.
He added: “I’m not saying that is what we need to occur, however assuming if all three did return to their mother or father golf equipment, we’ve positively bought to recruit.
“Now we have a very good squad right here so there isn't any want to tear it up.
“The strain is on us to make this staff higher now as a result of the longer you might be collectively, the higher you must get.
“That’s what we need to occur and if the precise gamers turn out to be obtainable within the window, who may enhance our 11, then we might go for it.”
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