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Stephen Robinson opens up on double-edged plan to strengthen St Mirren squad and finances

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Stephen Robinson believes a hybrid approach of promoting youth talents and bringing in unknown quantities can help St Mirren produce the perfect blend on the park.The Saints manager used the double-edged plan to great effect at former club Motherwell.As well as bringing through the likes of academy prospects David Turnbull, Allan Campbell and Jake Hastie, who all went on to net the Steelmen significant transfer fees, Robinson also picked up players that had until that point flown under the radar.Defender Cedric Kipre was a gamble after his release from Leicester City that paid off handsomely, while striker Louis Moult also brought big money in to Fir Park.It’s a model that Robinson feels can pay off again in Paisley as he continues to lay long-term foundations at the SMiSA Stadium.He told Renfrewshire Live Sport: “Sometimes in football it’s hard to speak about the long term, but there has to be a realisation of who we are as a football club and of where we are and what we’re trying to achieve.“We want to be a club which brings players through the academy.

We’ve stripped that down to the bare bones and now we need to rebuild it because that’s our life blood.“We’re out on the training pitch every Wednesday with the 17 and 18-year-olds.“My assistant, Diarmuid O’Carroll, has been fantastic with them and the rest of the staff love that side of it as well.“I’ve also previously brought in players from lower leagues and sold them for big money, which is then regenerated back into the football club and this is the model that our chief executive, Keith Lasley, sees as the way forward.“That’s because he saw how well it worked when we were both at Motherwell.

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