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Assistant boss David Byrne is desperate for Swindon Town to keep hold of Moses Ashikodi for next season - as he believes the on-loan Watford striker is the new Jason Roberts.

The pacey 20-year-old Nigerian struck a sizzling hat-trick in the Robins' 6-1 thrashing of non-league Chippenham Town in the semi-finals of the Wiltshire Premier Shield on Tuesday.

And Byrne believes if the injury-plagued Ashikodi can stay fit, he could develop into a multi-million pound player similar to Blackburn's Premiership ace Roberts.

Byrne said: "He hasn't had a pre-season for two years but if we can get him fit he's the sort of player who could be worth a lot of money -I think he's the new Jason Roberts.

"Whether he can come here permanently is something we'll have to sit down and talk about from now until the end of the season.

"I think he's out of contract in the summer but that's something we'll have to discuss with our board of directors and also with Watford.

"He's certainly did himself no harm on Tuesday."

Byrne feels Ashikodi could cause problems to any defence, and added: "People might say it's only against Chippenham but I don't think it would have mattered who he was playing against.

"He's one of these players that if you give him the opportunity by putting the ball in the right areas he can be a handful to anybody."

Byrne believes the powerful striker could be the answer to struggling Town's current goal-scoring woes - and was eager to fill in boss Maurice Malpas ahead of Town's home clash with Oldham on Saturday.

"Maurice wasn't at the game because of a prior engagement arranged a long time before he came here, but I'll be letting him know just how good Moses was.

"We're struggling to score goals at the moment and he's done what we've asked him to do by scoring a hat-trick, plus his link-up play was excellent too.

"And this week in training he's been as good as I've seen him. I just think he's starting to regain the levels of fitness that he needs and he's now starting to see the dividends come from it.

"All we can do is report back and then obviously we'll take it from there, but he's done his first team prospects no harm at all."

9:52am Thursday 3rd April 2008

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