Skipper Munro leads way for Caley Jags as he pledges future to the club

CALEY Thistle captain Grant Munro has agreed terms on a two-and-a-half year contract with the Highland club.

The 28-year-old represented himself in negotiations with Inverness. Aside from a brief spell on loan at Elgin City in the 2000/01 campaign, Munro has spent his entire professional career with Caley Jags.

A product of the club’s youth system, the central defender is in his 11th season with the club and will remain at Inverness beyond his 30th birthday.

Inverness have also made contract offers to goalkeeper Michael Fraser and mid- fielder Ian Black.

Fraser and Black, along with Don Cowie, are out of contract at the end of this season and Caley Thistle are eager to secure all three.

Cowie has been interest- ing League 1 side Leeds United and has yet to respond to an offer put to him by the Highland club this year.

Talks with Munro were far more straightforward.

The Inverness-born player was given a wage rise as part of the new contract and Caley Jags director of football Graeme Bennett praised Munro for agreeing a deal so quickly.

Bennett hopes Fraser and Black will follow his lead. He said: “We are delighted about it as he is a local boy and the club captain. It was great to deal with him as it only took him five minutes to accept our offer. We have spoken to the agents of Ian Black and Michael Fraser and, hope- fully, they will get back to us sooner rather than later.

“We learned a lot from our contract negotiations with Dennis Wyness last season.

“It hardly took Grant any time at all to give us an answer and that’s the way we would like all the contract talks to go. In the present economic climate we are one of the only businesses who are giving wage rises.”