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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.

https://shop.afc.co.uk/souvenirsgifts/homeware/mugs/1035_afc-large-travel-mug.html https://shop.afc.co.uk/souvenirsgifts/homeware/mugs/1037_afc-stan-travel-mug-red.html I don't know if these are steel, but they are definitely a steal.

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.

Oh don't worry, they're making enough of a killing charging £8 and then adding another £5 on for delivery. "Mug" is the apt word. And yes I bought one anyway.

https://shop.afc.co.uk/2025scwinners/2025scwinners/2025scwinners/2207_scf-winners-mug.html You tell me that isn't beautiful.

You got angry, then got personal, and have followed it up with "maybe stop being so sensitive on a football forum". Yep, could not agree more pal... You're right, I totally underplayed it. It was actually a wild statement to make.

Think he asked to leave because he wanted to play more regularly. We had signed Nicky Maynard, Stevie May and Greg Stewart, while Rooney was still first choice. By all accounts Stockley had a decent enough scoring record after leaving Aberdeen.

Talking of Sam Cosgrove, he was one of a number of well kent faces taking part in this. It actually reads like a list of Derek McInnes transfer targets. As it goes, Cosgrove got the opening goal.