St Mirren Football Club is delighted to announce that both Fraser Taylor and Kieran Offord have agreed contract extensions until 2025.
The St Mirren Youth Academy graduates will both go out on loan to continue their football development with Fraser Taylor joining Ballymena United and Kieran Offord joining Edinburgh City until the end of the season. The club will retain the option to recall both in January.
Stephen Robinson confirmed that the pair will continue to train with Saints during the early part of the week while on their respective loan spells.
The manager told stmirren.com: "Both are players that we feel have got a long-term future at the club.
"They are still developing and we feel the next stage of their development is to go out and play competitive football.
Both will train with us on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday which is perfect for us as it means they are still in our system.
"We will revisit it again at Christmas in the hope that they will come back in either January or ahead of the new season and become regular first team players.
"Everybody wants academy players in the system but they have to be game ready. We think we are doing this well with the two loans and ideally they come back in January or next season and are a big part of things going forward.
"Other players will stay that are a wee bit closer to the first team in terms of positions and numbers. It's two different ways to get the players to develop - going out on loan and staying and training with the first team in that environment. Fraser and Kieran will get the best of both worlds."
Midfielder Fraser Taylor added: "I'm delighted.
It gives me another year to develop into the St Mirren first team player I want to be.
"Hopefully, when I go on loan, I play a lot of minutes at a good standard and it'll make me a better player with more experience to come back ready for the first team.
"The manager, Diarmuid [O'Carroll] and all the coaching staff have helped me develop a lot in terms of the physical and technical side of the game."
Forward Kieran Offord said: "I'm buzzing with it.
This is a great place to be to try and develop my football and I know I'll get opportunities. I feel like I've come on a lot since I signed my last deal and have played more first team games than I thought I would.
"It gives me another year to work on my football. I'm hoping the loan deal with give me the opportunity of consistent games to go and show what I can do."
