Teale considering Gow offer

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St Mirren manager Gary Teale is considering a contract offer to former Falkirk and Rangers forward Alan Gow.

Gow has been training with St Mirren and played in their 2-0 friendly defeat by New York City in Manchester on Tuesday.

The 32-year-old has been without a club since the summer after suffering an ankle injury during a loan spell with Bristol Rovers.

Teale, whose team host Inverness in the Scottish Premiership on Saturday, said: "Gowswer has done well. That's him been in a week now and he has been showing up a lot more. I've not made a decision yet. It will probably be after the weekend now that I will make a decision, we are just concentrating on the game now.''

Gow is under consideration as Teale looks to push Saints on despite the loss of key player Kenny McLean.

Saints have added teenage Tottenham winger Emmanuel Sonupe and former West Ham midfielder Kieran Sadlier to their squad and Teale hopes to quickly adapt to the loss of the midfielder, who scored four goals in his last eight games for Saints, to Aberdeen.

"He was probably our main player since the summer onwards and certainly since I have come in as manager,'' Teale said.

"So to lose him was a massive blow. But that's football, it's not something I can control.

"I wish him all the best going up to Aberdeen but it's an opportunity for someone else to come in and step up to the plate and try to be the talisman for the team that Kenny was.

"Hopefully the new players will make an impact. They played the game the other night and played a development game on Wednesday night as well, just to get a feel of Scottish football.

"Sometimes you can have a wee misconception of Scottish football, coming from West Ham and Tottenham then they will maybe not give it the respect it deserves. So we have given them a sense of reality.

"They will probably be involved (against Inverness) but I certainly don't think they will start.''