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Stephen O'Donnell opens up on Graham Alexander fallout at Motherwell as he says new players are more important than a new boss

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Stephen O’Donnell hopes for a fresh start under the next Motherwell manager – as he opened up on his fallout with former boss Graham Alexander.

And the Scotland right-back reckons bringing in reinforcements at Fir Park is more important than rushing into appointing a successor.

O’Donnell made his first start this season during Saturday’s defeat by St Johnstone, with caretaker boss Steven Hammell giving him the nod in an unfamiliar left-back role after a tough summer.

He’s barely had a look-in of late and was stripped of the captaincy at the start of the season. O’Donnell saw the armband handed to keeper Liam Kelly amid a disagreement with Alexander, who was sacked by the Steelmen in the aftermath of the club’s embarrassing Europa Conference League exit to Sligo Rovers last month.

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