Is Dundee boss Steven Pressley lacking ambition?
Former Dundee striker Rory Loy wants to hear more positivity from the Dens Park boss.
This season marks Dundee’s fourth top-flight campaign in a row and after another summer of squad upheaval Pressley is targeting survival.
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Despite a tricky start to last season, Dundee ended the campaign eighth, having finished 10th and sixth in the previous two campaigns.
Before Monday night’s 1-0 defeat to Celtic in their Scottish Premiership opener, Pressley admitted Dundee “understand where we are in the food chain” and admitted post-match he has to be realistic about the club’s ambitions.
“There is a lot to like in terms of what Dundee have managed to do,” Loy told the BBC’s Scottish Football Podcast.
“I know it’s not in his nature, but I would like to hear Steven Presley being a little bit more optimistic about what the goals and aims are.
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“I know most managers at Dundee, St Mirren, Kilmarnock, will talk about staying in the league. It’s a fourth consecutive season in the league [for Dundee] now.
“You say it’s being realistic, it’s not being down the dumps, but is it realistic that St Mirren finished in the top six three seasons in a row? Is it realistic that St Johnstone went on a wee run of finishing in the top six?
“I know the league has a different landscape to it now, but at what point after four seasons in a league do you turn round and go ‘Let’s aim for sixth’?. If you finish seventh or eighth, that’s not necessarily a bad season. It might still be a good season.
“I just would like to hear him be a little bit more ambitious about what he’s looking to achieve this season.”
