Scott Fraser relishing Dundee debut as he opens up on deadline day transfer after 'tough' London spell

Scott Fraser knows coming home will keep his family happy and allow him to get back to the top of his own game at Dundee.

The playmaker goes into the Dark Blues squad for the first time for tomorrow's Dens Park clash with Aberdeen. The 29-year-old terminated his contract at Charlton on deadline night because his young family had been struggling for a couple of years in London. "I feel like it's been the most spoken about thing over the last two years,” the Dundee new boy stated.

"I've made no secret of it. As soon as my missus said to me that, in other words, she's had enough of London, it's been tough. We'd play Saturday, Tuesday down there so I was away a lot. So it could be two or three days a week that I'm home and then four or five days I'm gone. So when that sort of came about it made it difficult.

"Then we spoke about maybe two weeks up here, two weeks they come down. But things like that didn't work out.

"I stopped enjoying my football side of it because I knew that nothing was right away from the football. So this has been a big uplift for me, football and my family."

Fraser reckons it has been two years since he really enjoyed his football at Charlton. He admitted: “A while ago if I'm honest. Probably when I first went to Charlton it was enjoyable.

"Ben Garner came in. I signed in January and Ben Garner came in during the summer and I probably had four or five months with him that I genuinely enjoyed. My missus was pregnant in the January when we signed for Charlton.

"And even the first day or four months was okay, because we had family and that around us. As I said, when we're not happy off the pitch, London is obviously a different type of world than what we're used to up here.”

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