Manager Jim Goodwin has been speaking to the media before Dundee United’s Premiership trip to Kilmarnock on Saturday.
Here are the key points:
- Goodwin says “without a shadow of a doubt” the club will offer a contract extension to Will Ferry.
- The wing-back, who has a year of his deal remaining, is reportedly attracting interest from elsewhere and Goodwin admits the 25-year-old will be “really high up on a lot of teams’ lists”.
- Having already agreed pre-contracts with forward Jesse Randall and striker Lachlan Rose, Goodwin says the Tannadice club have “a list of players we believe are realistic targets”.
- He sees seventh-place United as a team who belong in the top six and are challenging in Europe: “We know where we went wrong, we know the areas we need to improve on.”
- Goodwin is expecting a “really difficult game” against second-bottom Killie, who are “fighting for their lives”.
- On United’s season being blighted by injuries to key players, the manager says: “I think that is something we will look at when we do our end-of-season review. We sit down as a staff and the medical department and the strength and conditioning guys and everybody else and we will see the areas where we think we can improve for next season to make sure we don’t end up in a similar situation.”
- Team news: As well as the players already out, United are monitoring a few who picked up “niggles” during the derby win over Dundee last weekend.