Caley Thistle wide man Aaron Doran has pledged his future to the club by penning a three-year deal.

 

The former Blackburn Rovers player, who was 22 on May 13, has had a superb campaign in the team's surge to finish fourth in the SPL and has been rewarded with the longest contract the club has offered in recent years.

 

http://ictfc.com/news/team-news/932-3-year-deal-for-doran

 

Good news

Very pleased with this. Hope he carries on his form for next season.

Great News - Hope his new deal is being sponsored by Ryvita.

Fantastic!

Brilliant!!

Glad to hear this, and happy to see the club offering a 3 year deal rather than the normal 2 years ....

Here's a thought - is Doran capable of filling the Shinniesta role, with one of the newcomers going out wide?

Worth a try. He loves to cut inside anyway.

Great news Doran is staying with us. I know from speaking to him he had offers from other clubs. I thought he would have been off, but it's testament to the job Terry Butcher is doing.

I was worried he was away! Three years.... superb!!!

Would have thought a few Championship clubs would be interested in him. Great news that he has decided to stay. And a three-year deal! We don't dish those out very often. 

Very good news indeed. Young player with great promise who can only get better.

Brilliant news. Great to have him in Inverness for the foreseeable future.

Cheers for the birthday present Aaron. :) ahahah

Delighted that he has signed such a long contract by our usual standards

 

Doran has been highly effective and creative this year and the fact that he finished the season as the second highest assister in the SPL goes to show how crucial he has been to our success this season. He still has time ahead of him to add goals to his game and thankfully those years will be with us

 

Well done to those involved in getting him tied to a long contract

Great piece of news, even better piece of business. I suspect we've yet to see the best of him.

The core is strengthening up, glad he's put our minds at rest and a great deal for team and player.

Great news and a real statement of intent from the club.

Here's a thought - is Doran capable of filling the Shinniesta role, with one of the newcomers going out wide?

Good call!  I'd even say that would be Doran's natural position.

Really good news and a 3 year contract excellent

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Great news indeed.  Very, very pleased with this.  Good work by the club and decision I feel by Aaron.

Onwards and upwards!

Yep, agree with all that's been said. On his day a real joy to watch.

 

 

 

 

Now, when we sell him (  ) whatcha bet he'll be our first £1.0m player sale 2 years later... ?

Very good news. It was taking so long I was thinking he was offski!

Brilliant news, I think playing him through the middle in the Shinniesta could be a good shout. Might start claiming hes the Irish Messi.

 

Here he is (albeit playing right up top) playing through the middle and scoring twice against Italy U21.

 

The more I think about it, the more I like this deal ......

 

Obviously, he is a good player and has come on leaps and bounds. We are all happy to see him sign a new deal. BUT, for me the most pleasing aspect is that it is a three year deal .....

 

Firstly, here is a player at age 22, with other clubs sniffing around, who is prepared to commit himself to our club for more than the standard 2 year contract, and secondly, and more importantly, our club has broken through that barrier of only offering 2 year deals and using the excuse of hedging our bets against relegation to justify it. Maybe we have finally matured as a club and after our 4th place finish this season, we finally see ourselves as an SPL team, there on merit, and not relegation fodder ... a big step forward for all concerned. 

I am delighted with the way contract negotiations have been handled this season with the vast bulk of the squad being retained.

 

Most particularly, in my view we had four very promising young players who all would have been in demand elsewhere in both Shinnie brothers, Billy MacKay and Aaron Doran. The fact that we have secured three out of those four for at least the next two seasons is great credit to the players themselves and the management team for persuading them to stay.

 

Unearth a couple more gems from the bowels of the English league system and we could be in for a very successful and entertaining couple of years ahead.