Thomas Robert - the wonder kid son of Newcastle legend Laurent, flew over from France and turned down a 4-year deal at Montpellier to pitch up in Airdrie. A product of a link up between club & agent. Hailed as the player that was going to net the Diamonds an elusively big transfer fee
Admittedly scored some good goals and showed a decent turn for a month period around December 2020, resulting in “Tam Rab” t-shirts being ceremoniously sold out. The new year came and he went missing after a trial with Celtic. Made a 20 minute cameo in the play-off final with Morton and couldn’t kick his own arse.
New season dawns and still no sign of the prodigious Robert. Ian Murray doesn’t know what line to toe whether it be “he’s still our player… long term deal in place…”. Fast forward a few weeks and news filters out that he’s signed for Royal Excel Mouscron for exactly £0 in the Belgian second tier. He wears the number 99 on his strip and to date he’s made a massive one appearance.
But it’s fine. We’ve got Adam Frizzell & Dylan Easton now. And they’re better.