Junior Morias has left Northampton Town, signing a two-year contract at SPFL side St Mirren for an undisclosed fee.
The striker was signed from Peterborough by previous Cobblers boss Dean Austin last summer, but since Keith Curle took control in October 2018, he’s made just seven starts for the club and was made available for transfer at the end of last season.
Curle has used the popular striker in an impact substitute role for the majority of his time in charge and told the Northampton Chronicle and Echo the twenty-four-year-old was keen to leave Sixfields to play more minutes. He said: ‘As an impact player, he is excellent, but would Junior have settled for being an impact player? No, he wouldn’t.’
‘He wanted more game time; he wanted that regular game time, that selection-wise I couldn’t afford him.’
Morias began his career at Wycombe Wanderers, before a spell in non-league with Boreham Wood and St Albans City. He made the switch to League One Peterborough United in January 2017, where he scored eleven goals in fifty-one appearances.
The Jamaican follows in the footsteps of former teammate Sam Foley who signed for the Buddies at the beginning of August, and it seems plenty of Cobblers fans feel like the club has made a massive mistake in letting him go.
Many fans heavily criticised manager Keith Curle when they reacted to the news on social media with the scrutiny of his decisions no doubt intensified by their poor start to the season.
Some supporters are already predicting Curle will be gone by Christmas as the following selection of responses to the news on Twitter illustrates.
https://twitter.com/Steamhead5/status/1164578967367692288?s=20
Absolutely the wrong decision.
— TheRauldinho (@TheRauldinho) August 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/ian_townsend/status/1164519833008037888?s=20
This will prove another poor decision by the club imo. I was hoping that we’d get to the end of this window without losing Junior. Then once Curles gone (by end of Oct I think) the new manager would have given him a chance. Good luck @Junior_Morias please stick to go Rangers 💪🏻⚽️
— MJ (@mj_cobbler) August 22, 2019
Biggest mistake we could make letting him go
— Tommy (@TommyHope_) August 22, 2019
Big mistake, junior is a player who gets the crowd going..a goalscorer and a menace to defences..cobblers are left with Smith oliver and Williams..plus Sam if you class him as a striker..
— james bashford (@jamesbashford3) August 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/smilingrebel/status/1164546185627127808?s=20
The fact that Curle could only see him as an impact player says as much about his lack of imagination and vision as it does about Morias.
— (P) Phil Ashby (@philntfc) August 22, 2019
