Stevie May reveals desire to stay at St Johnstone

The £1 million rated 21-year-old attacker has already attracted interest from England, with Peterborough, Rotherham and Preston all keen, but May revealed he sees his immediate future at McDiarmid Park.

Manager Tommy Wright took his players to Dunkeld Hilton and limbered up for the clash with Dundee United with clay pigeon shooting. And now his star striker is aiming to gun down their Tayside rivals.

May handed Saints a cup final boost by revealing: “We’ve been speaking to the club and I want to stay here. I’m happy so I want to stay. There’s no reason to want to leave. I’m still developing and can feel myself improving all the time, so this is the best place to do that. We have not spoken about figures yet but that will happen after the cup final. We don’t want any distractions ahead of Saturday’s game so it can wait until that’s over.

“If someone wants to buy me then they’ll do that regardless of my contract so that’s my take on it. This season has been better than anything I could have imagined. At the start I was just hoping to get in the team and score a few goals. If you’d told me at the start I would have scored 27 goals and got to the Scottish Cup final, I would have been delighted with that. It’s beyond anything I could have hoped for at the start.

“It has been great walking round Perth and seeing the displays in the windows. I’ve never seen anything like this in Perth before, the city has really got behind us and we’re going to take a massive crowd to the final. We’re just hoping to do it for the city and give the place something to celebrate.

Boss Wright said: “I met Stevie’s agent last week. Now we’ll have to sit down and talk about the financial part of it now. So it’s not done yet but we’re hopeful it will be.”