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Was thinking about this the other day too. I thought we began last season weaker than the previous season, due to Miovski and Hoilett leaving. This season, with Mackenzie and Nisbet leaving I think we're weaker again. But, haven't seen Gyamfi yet so we may well be okay there, but yeah a striker is imperative.

Really hope there's one more friendly in us before we go to Tynecastle, even if it's just a closed-door bounce game among the squad. I don't think we were that bad though considering the quality of opposition and our lack of games and sharpness. Ipswich had a 25-minute spell where they roasted us, other than that we competed well without ever looking overly impressive. However, doesn't help that already we're having to shoehorn Molloy at left-back and Ambrose up front (granted, he scored) because of injuries, albeit it from the bench. Yengi, he's exactly the player to fit Thelin's model - which looks like a target man with pace to run in behind on the counter, and the link up man to bring Milanovic and Keskinen into play. Unfortunately he showed none of that tonight, but hopefully there's more to come from him. He hasn't played a lot of football and I fear he's a guy that we might not see the best of until December/January, a bit like Kevin Nisbet. Polvara - if only he had pace, he could play that roll nicely, and I'd actually like to see Polvara alongside Keskinen, Aouchiche and Milanovic. But we're crying out for either one of our guys stepping up or a new striker arriving in the next week.

Has to be said - Ian Westlake is his name -despite my snippy comment, he's actually been an excellent co-commentator, have enjoyed listening to him. And he may well be right with the "more than four goals prediction".

Three-nil harsh on us, been much more pleasing on the eye from us in this half. But, Mitov been poor, and again our full-back is outpaced. An Ipswich fan doing the Soccer AM "easy-easy" chant about 20 years after it went out of date sums up why we shouldn't invite English teams up here. Yengi not impressing but I'll give him a chance before slating him. Palaversa too sloppy. On a positive note though, the four of Keskinen-Aouchiche-Clarkson-Milanovic are showing promise. Milne has been good - I wouldn't blame him for the goals. Good to see Nilsen back. The new boy Kjartansson coming on too will be interesting, looking forward to seeing him.

Defensively we're certainly getting a work out. It's mistakes they've punished. Their wingers are so much quicker than our full-backs; a quick one-two and they're in behind. Started to get things going for the last 10 minutes of the half. I suspect a lot of that was Ipswich dropping the pace. Aouchiche looks good. Yengi maybe just sluggish due to pre-season and the injuries he's had, but so far disappointed at his lack of pace. The commentators saying Ipswich plan to change most, if not all, of their starting XI on the hour mark, so we'll likely get a lot more joy in the second half.

Also the commentator has not once, but twice described Alexander Jensen as "Finnish centre back Richard Jensen".

Watching with Ipswich TV commentary. The co-commentator has just said "I know we scored four in Austria, but against this Aberdeen team I'd expect to score more than four this evening".

Ipswich beat Austrian side Blay-Weiß Linz 4-1 at the weekend. The Austrians are a handy side - were sixth in the top flight last season - so maybe around St Mirren's level (that's the height of my knowledge of Austrian football). George Hirst (the very English Scotland striker) scored twice. Ipswich earned £111m last season in prize money, and have just turned down a £35m offer for one of their players. It's another world down there. Good job the result on Friday isn't important.

Hero and legend as a player. But a sigh of relief that Gordon Strachan is nowhere near our football department these days.

I'd like to think if we're playing Ipswich on Friday, and with Hearts not for 10 days after that, we could slip in a bounce game in between. Even if it's a closed doors friendly among the squad. It also doesn't feel like pre-season until we've played St Johnstone.

Lost 4-1 to Fulham. Little surprise really considering only two outside players managed to play more than an hour. I do wonder if we're going to be a wee bit undercooked for the opening day of the season, is it just Ipswich the only remaining first team friendly? Shinnie and Devlin played one half each at left-back. Milne did start and only he and Jensen (and Mitov) managed the 90 minutes which suggests he might still be the first choice RCB even if Dorrington has signed (although, granted, Alfie wasn't in the squad). 4-2-3-1 so no sign of three at the back just yet.

In terms of central defenders, we now have:- Dorrington Tobers Milne Rubezic Knoester Jensen Molloy Still feel we need one more ahead of the game with Hearts.

Don't think there's much truth in this. We had an option to buy Dabbagh so could have taken it up by now. Expect we'll sign another similar-type player this window instead.

Technically, it was "surplus to requirements?" with a question mark on the end, as in we don't have a clue To me it just seemed Thelin wanted players to get minutes and he couldn't bring the whole squad to Cove. Reports were we were open to offers for Vinniie, yet he played v Cove.

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Zak To. The Aberdeen website lists him as a defender, but at the U15 age group he was playing as a midfielder. Only 17 I think.

I think we'll need to wait until August, which means we'll announce it tomorrow probably.. I wouldn't rule out Nesbit returning. I think I've said it before, with Hearts keeping Shankland and Hibs holding onto Boyle (both could have been moving this summer) that increases the pressure on Aberdeen to have a recognised goal scorer and we might just pay the big money for Nesbit. But, the Soumano chase shows we're actively in the market. I don't see us spending 600k - 800k on two strikers. We'll sign one and they become first choice. Still, will be keeping a close eye on Millwall's trip to Spain next week. They have two friendlies over there - be interesting to see how many minutes Nisbet gets and how he plays. That'll give an early indication of what Alex Neil thinks. He's currently their third choice striker.

As long as there is interest in him from more than one club, then a year on his deal doesn't lower his value too much. £1.5m plus two players who haven't ever had a consistent run of form in the Premiership, and also have no real sell on value (Jensen is 29), would be an absolute robbery. High earners by Motherwell standards I would suggest. If they're on £2,500 - £3,000 a week, that's enough to be in the top five earners at Motherwell. But why? Motherwell play in the same league as us. If Jensen is struggling here as a defender, what makes him go up a level at Motherwell defending against the same opponents? It is of course all hypothetical, but I think Motherwell would laugh that deal out of the door. It's the equivalent of us selling Miovski for £1.5m to Rangers in exchange for Leon King and Liam Kelly and paying them both £5,000 a week. Miller and Lewis Ferguson are not like for like though; Miller is further on than Ferguson was when he signed for us. Ferguson had played only 13 or 14 games for Hamilton when he came here. Miller has had over 60 games and has played for Scotland. He doesn't need Aberdeen to be a stepping stone to the big time as Como likely give him that (Like Ferguson, do a job for Como and you'll find bigger clubs notice him).

Just making sure you're all paying attention (which I clearly wasn't).

Crystal Palace demoted to the Conference League due to duel ownership rules with Lille. Nottingham Forest promoted to Europa League.

Cant put pressure on this lad, but a goalkeeper called Theo - I like it. He even looks like him ffs. It's like a FM24 regen.

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It's fine, I'm bored of him anyway. Do we need a left-back? We have Gyamfi, and both Shinnie and Jensen can and have played there. Firstly, that's a worse deal than what Udinese offered in January when they tested Motherwell with a £2.5m offer. Secondly, if Como are interested in him, then the wages they'll offer Miller would far outweigh what we could. They have just spent £17m on Nicolas Kuhn. Thirdly, on a similar note, could Motherwell afford the wages of Polvara and Jensen? And it'd be two players who haven't really proven themselves at Premiership level so what's in it for Motherwell - they lose their best player for only £1.5m, and get two players on high wages who might only be average at best for them.