Ryan Lowe was first linked with former club Crewe Alexandra in January

Chester City striker Ryan Lowe has admitted that he is considering his future at the doomed League Two club.

Lowe, 30, City's 18-goal top scorer, has grown frustrated during the post-Christmas slide down the League Two table towards inevitable relegation.

"I signed for Chester on the basis of the club looking for promotion," he told BBC Radio Merseyside.

"Unfortunately that hasn't been the case and it's gone the other way. I'll sit down with the owner and manager."

Lowe, who it is believed is being monitored by Crewe Alexandra and Macclesfield, says he will decide on his future once Chester have officially been relegated on Saturday.

"I've been through the experience of relegation while I was at Shrewsbury," he said. "And it's not nice.

"But I'm not going to discuss my future just yet. After the season finishes, I'll be sitting down and having a chat."

If you're playing football you should go out there and give it all you've got Ryan Lowe

Following that relegation with Shrewsbury in 2003, Lowe stayed at the Gay Meadow and helped the Shropshire club win back their Football League place a year later.

But, as thing stands now, there seems little cause for similar optimism at the Deva Stadium.

Lowe cannot be blamed for realising the full extent of the mess City are now in, admitting that the young, unbolstered squad at the Deva Stadium were simply not good enough to stay up.

But he declined to blame up-for-sale City's off-field problems, which included being subject to a transfer embargo, for their plight.

"It's not up to me to comment about the situation Chester were put in during the course of the season," he said.

"If you're playing football you should go out there and give it all you've got.

"I feel we have tried to do that along the way but relegation has been on the cards at Chester for a long time and we just haven't been good enough."

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