Dundee boss Steven Pressley wants to bring in multiple reinforcements

Steven Pressley says Dundee will look to bring in attacking and defensive reinforcements before the end of the transfer window.

The Dens Park club are without defenders Clark Robertson and Billy Koumetio and strikers Joe Westley and Ashley Hay due to injury.

Pressley admitted the situation could force his hand and hoped the Dundee board could conclude some transfer business before the window closes on Monday.

The Dundee manager: “We have to look at that (signing more players).

“Every game for us is so important. And it might be three or four weeks out for Ash but that could be five or six games just now for us because it’s such a hectic period.

“Ash had been struggling after the opening period at Ibrox. And as a result, we got him scanned later in the week.

“We thought it wasn’t going to be too bad, but it looks like it’s a broken toe. So again, it might force us in the market.

“It’s not what we intended to do going into the window. We had a clear idea of where we wanted to recruit. And centre-back was another area we didn’t really want to recruit in. But our hands have been forced a little bit.

“So I think prior to the closure of the window, we certainly need to bring in a centre-back and probably an attacking player.”

St Mirren are the lowest scorers in the William Hill Premiership and find themselves just three points clear of Kilmarnock, who occupy the relegation play-off space.

But after winning the Premier Sports Cup in December, Robinson believes it should be considered a great season if his team can stay up.

He said: “Somebody’s told me with our xG (expected goals), we should be 10 points better off. But xG means absolutely nothing. It’s something that you look at and go, ‘yeah, we’re getting into good positions and decisions have gone against you’. But you can’t change that.

“You can’t feel sorry for yourself. I said weeks ago that if we won the cup and stayed up everybody would be saying, ‘what a fantastic season’. And that has to be the primary goal. Once you get a couple of results under your belt, of course, that can change. But first and foremost, we need that.

“And we’ve got a group of boys, 15 or 16 of them, that will fight and die. We’ve got other boys trying to get up to speed, obviously, coming into the club and not having played for long times. But we know that we’ll battle and scrap to the end.”