Rumours, Rumours, Rumours

It’s been just a week since Rotherham United played their last game of the season, enough time for us fans to digest the fact that we will start in League One next season and time for the rumours regarding players to begin.

Before the final game of the season there were already rumours that Clark Robertson was a wanted man with Aberdeen being rumoured to want to take him back to the Pittodrie Stadium. The centre-back began his career with his home town team Aberdeen moving to England with Blackpool where he joined the Millers from in the summer of 2018. Clark has made sixty-nine appearances for Rotherham with much of the last two seasons being curtailed due to injuries. He has played in sixteen games this season, the last one being in April against Birmingham when he played around eighty minutes.

To be honest, a fit Clark Robertson is a great asset to us but being one of the ones who has been in the treatment room more often than on the pitch during the last year or so then you have to put a question mark against him.

Striker Michael Smith joined the Millers in January 2018, having played for Darlington, Charlton, Swindon Town, Portsmouth and various clubs on-loan, from Bury. He has gone on to make one hundred and fifty appearances in a Rotherham shirt, forty-six of those this season, twice helping the Millers to promotion and has scored thirty-six times. Smudge is said to be on the radar of Middlesbrough.

Obviously, the problems Smith causes in the area when he’s up for free-kicks and corners would be a miss for Rotherham but, we have to be realistic and realise he is probably better than League One standard.

Although I’ve not seen American born Matthew Olosunde or midfielder Matt Crooks being linked with anyone both rejected offered contract renewals and I’m guessing it’s only a matter of time. Both will be missed at the New York Stadium and will be difficult to replace, but I suspect we will need to do just that.