Cummings recently entered the final year of his Nottingham Forest contract
The Nottingham Forest striker, Jason Cummings, is not St Johnstone’s first-choice striker target.
Cummings scored or made 13 goals in 27 games while on loan at Peterborough United and Luton Town last season, but has since returned to Nottingham Forest where his first-team prospects are thought to be low.
The Scot recently entered the final year of his City Ground contract and a move away looks likely before the summer transfer deadline.
St Johnstone has been touted as one potential destination, but speaking via STV earlier, the Saints boss Tommy Wright suggested a deal is unlikely.
“Sometimes I don’t know where these stories come from,” he said. “Whether it’s the agents trying to pump it up and create interest in the player but Jason’s a player that we know of but he’s not going to be my number one target that I’ve got in mind for coming in.”
Cummings – who scored prolifically for St Johnstone’s league rivals, Hibernian, before his move south of the border – is one of five senior centre-forwards on Nottingham Forest’s books.
But the majority of those – for example, Daryl Murphy, Zac Clough and Tyler Walker – also face an uncertain few weeks as the new Forest manager Sabri Lamouchi shapes the squad he inherited from Martin O’Neill.
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