CURTIS Main insists he is in the dark about speculation about a summer move to Aberdeen – but admits he hopes to sit down with Motherwell manager Stephen Robinson in the next week or so to make progress on his future. Reports this week suggested Derek McInnes was interested in adding 26-year-old Geordie, who is out of contract this summer, to his striking options but Main said he knew nothing of the speculation and won’t rule out staying in Lanarkshire next season.

“I wasn’t aware of it until I walked in this morning and one of the lads pulled me up on it,” said Main. “So I didn’t know anything about it. I don’t see the papers and am not on social media – it is a conscious decision! - so things like that sometimes pass me by.

“But the phone hasn’t rang and there has been no real talk and I don’t know where it has come from. It is good to be linked with good clubs but I am just concentrating from now until the end of the season in keeping on doing what I have been doing. We will see what happens in the summer.

“There has been no movement in terms of that [my future]. Everything since the turn of the year has been fully focussed on whether we can make the top six or not. It is something that has been on the back burner. Now that top six is not an option we will probably sit down and see what is what. Since I have come up here I have really enjoyed paying my football and being on this platform so it is certainly something I wouldn’t rule out.”

Main, a former team-mate of Rangers’ Connor Goldson at Shrewsbury, who has scored just six times in 35 appearances during this term, has largely been asked to play more of a target man role this season – getting assists for the likes of Jake Hastie and co. much in the way that Oliver Giroud sacrificed himself for Kylian Mbappe and Antonie Griezmann in France’s World Cup winning side. “It’s certainly an unselfish role, something that no striker will say he’s overly pleased about doing,” said Main. “But at the end of the day you’re part of a team and the end goal is to win the game of football and you find a way to do that.”

While Steven Gerrard will watch today’s match from the stand, back in November at Ibrox it was Robinson who ended up there during the 7-1 rout to the Ibrox side, quietly determining to make the mid-season changes which made Motherwell such a feature of the second part of the season. “The moment I decided we were going to change style and bring the young boys in when I was sitting in the stand suspended. So I have to thank Rangers for that!”

Robinson insists he could be vulnerable to losing his players to clubs with deeper pockets. “I know my budget and I've made offers to players,” said Robinson. “With the money we offer, no-one is scrambling to sign, no-one is begging me to stay. That's every player's right. They've got agents telling them Man United and Barcelona want them – and unfortunately some of them believe it. We've got a great reputation for bringing good players here. And we must be doing something right if everyone's interested in our players. We don't get everyone right but we do with the vast majority.”