{"id":41538,"date":"2025-07-28T02:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41538\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:13:08","slug":"st-mirren-boss-has-no-idea-about-malik-dijksteels-cork-city-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41538\/","title":{"rendered":"St Mirren boss has &#8216;no idea&#8217; about Malik Dijksteel&#8217;s Cork City absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson was asked about the latest developments with Dijksteel after his side defeated Ayr United 2-1 on Sunday to book a home encounter with Heart of Midlothian in the second round of the Premier Sports Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not so sure he did make himself unavailable, I have no idea,&#8221; the Northern Irishman said. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure, if he&#8217;s under contract, he&#8217;s available to play. I&#8217;ve not had any contact in that area, that&#8217;s not my role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Malik&#8217;s a Cork player until the end of their season, so that&#8217;ll be other people that need to speak about that. It&#8217;s certainly not my remit to be taking players before their time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;d love to have him, of course, but there has to be an agreement between the two football clubs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson, who handed a debut to goalkeeper Shamal George against Ayr, is hoping to add more new faces to his squad but said: &#8220;Maybe we have to move one, maybe two, on before that happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was pleased to see Killian Phillips score his second double in two games but is wary of the recently-capped Republic of Ireland midfielder&#8217;s form attracting suitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If he keeps scoring goals, it&#8217;s a real concern for us, but a good concern,&#8221; Robinson said of the 23-year-old who signed permanently this summer after impressing on loan from Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s continued on where he left off last season with his form and his energy. He&#8217;s a driving force in the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robinson was asked about the latest developments with Dijksteel after his side defeated Ayr United 2-1 on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-41538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}