Gordon Strachan Games Quotations

He is on a good run of seven or eight games and we will keep working and speaking to Artur.

He had a good wee spell. We have to define that. You need to look at the games themselves. People go on about the AC Milan game. He has played in different positions, all over the place, a bit like Joe Cole. We've got to make him a player.

When you look at the games he's played, it's no real surprise. He's not missed many matches for club or country over the last couple of years and, when you look back to those games he travelled to America for recently with Bulgaria, maybe it's just all beginning to catch up with him now.

If you had said to me after those European games that we would be in this position heading into this game with Hearts, I'd have taken that,

It's never good losing a player like Stan, but hopefully the rest will do him good. I think it's probably fair to say that he hasn't been as dynamic for us over recent games and, if you look at his performances, I think there's a lot there to suggest that his body has been getting tired.

But I remember playing in a team which won ten games on the trot but ended up fourth. I am not saying they're going to do that, but it can happen.

T hey are young men and they have only played seven games this season,

They don't need to come here and prove anything to me or anybody else. They have already proved it in the games they've played.

I don't think the squad we have at the moment is conducive to the number of games we'll play next season.