St Mirren boss Stephen Robinson believes his coaching team's track record of improving players means "agents want their players to come here".

Speaking on the Open Goal podcast, Robinson said: “We have one scout in the whole country, Martin Foyle, who's been with me everywhere I go, he's been absolutely outstanding.

“But the world's a smaller place now with all the technology, we've got bits and pieces of data that we get in, we've got a lot of contacts in the game down south.

“I played for a long time, I’ve got a lot of people who pick up the phone and we've probably established ourselves as a coaching team that can develop players so agents want their players to come here.

“They want to have the platform of Scottish football now as well, so it's getting bigger, I think the quality's improved and that helps the recruitment process.

“It doesn't make it any easier because you can't obviously throw a lot of money at it. We run with a small squad so we can bring more quality into that, we’ve got 19 outfield players and that's by choice.”