Askou Unsurprised No Well Players Made Scots Squad

Motherwell defenders Paul McGinn and Stephen O'Donnell person won Scotland caps nether Clarke while team-mates Stephen Welsh, connected indebtedness from Celtic, and Elliot Watt were portion of nan country's under-21 squad earlier successful their careers.

And Askou commented: "I do dream that each our players get to unrecorded that dream, that I was obscurity adjacent erstwhile I was playing backmost successful nan time because I ideate that it is thing very, very typical to spell and correspond your state - and particularly astatine nan large tournaments.

"It's not thing that we person made a taxable with, not successful nan agency astatine each and not pinch nan players. They've astir apt been discussing it wrong nan dressing room, backmost and forward. Some of them mightiness person hoped, because they've had a bully season, but it's not thing that has been a taxable successful our club.

"Whether they tin play games and execute astatine a precocious level successful general, yes, I person seen that. I've seen much than capable to spot that they tin play against really bully opponents."