Jason signs new deal to 2022
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Jason signs new deal to 2022

29th January 2019

Tuesday 29 January 2019

The club is delighted to announce that 21-year-old defender Jason Kerr has agreed a new contract keeping him at the club until May 2022.

Jason broke into the Saints first-team in January 2018 making his debut in the Scottish Cup victory over Albion Rovers.

Before that the highly rated centre-back had just returned from a successful loan spell at Queen of the South and had also spent two seasons on-loan at East Fife helping them to the Scottish League Two title back in 2015/16.

The Scotland U21 international has been ever present for Saints in the league this season and has committed himself to the club for the next three-and-a-half years.

Speaking to the club's official website this afternoon, the manager said he's delighted that Jason has agreed a new deal and said it was always the intention of both parties to extend the defender's contract.

"I'm really pleased," Tommy said, "it's something we've been working on for a while now and we're delighted to see Jason sign an extension because he's done incredibly well for us this season.

"It's just over a year since he came back from Queen of the South and he's grown and matured as a player over the past 12 months.

"From speaking to him I always knew he wanted to stay here and the club had no intentions of selling him.

"Jason knows that he can still improve and he sees the best way to do that as being here at the club playing regular first-team football."

Tommy believes that the loan spells Jason had during his early years at the club have helped get him to where he is now and he thinks that the 21-year-old can get right to the very top of the game in the future.

"The whole idea of sending Jason out on-loan was to get him competitive football," the manager said, "and he's played a lot of games during his loan spells at Queen of the South and before that East Fife.

"Since he came back here and broke into the first-team his all round game has improved significantly.

"He's improved in the air and also with the ball at his feet. His positional sense and strength has also improved over the past year.

"I've seen a massive improvement in him but there are still aspects of his game he can work on if he wants to get to the very top and I believe he can do just that."

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