in Aberdeen's history.

 

I was thinking last night about how important the signing of Sone Aluko may turn out to be.  In the modern footballing climate, where young players are being paid ridiculous sums of money just to keep them out of reach of rival clubs, it's refreshing to see a young player who's prepared to put his career before monetary value.

 

Aluko's obviously had a taste of what Aberdeen had to offer last season, playing against Bayern in the UEFA cup, being part of a squad that played in two cup semi-finals, and also finishing fourth in the league.  He was also still selected for England under-21's whilst he was here so he'll have realised that he'll still be in the eyes of those in England.

 

As a club, Aberdeen may not be able to offer a youngster millions of pounds, but if they want somewhere to learn their trade, and a platform on which to better themselves, then we can offer something.

 

In the grand scheme of things, it's great that we can now attract this type of player as it's these guys that Aberdeen have to look to in helping the club progress.  Calderwood's brought a stability to the club where we're now going into a season thinking, "we should win a cup or at least qualify for Europe this year" as a pose to the years of, "We could seriously go down this year".  With this stability, we're now an attractive proposition again to many players.

 

The hope that Aluko brings with him is that other talented youngsters may follow his lead, and see joining Aberdeen as a way of furthering their career and not necessarily a 'step-down'.  We're led to believe that Josh Walker, for one, came here off the back of advice from Aluko.

 

I wouldn't, yet, include Aluko in the top 3 important signings/players, but he may yet prove to be an extremely valuable acquisition in the future of AFC.  I'd also be tempted to put Charlie Mulgrew in this bracket as well.  An extremely talented youngster who's not yet lived up to his potential.  Fingers crossed they can both prosper at Aberdeen.

 

I'm still undecided as to who the top 3 signings, or players we've brought through, are.  Interested to see who people select and the reasons why.

 

Discuss.

I think it,a safe to say players like Nicholas out bums on seats and is a strong argument for the idea of speculate to accumulate.

 

 

Isn't that what almost killed Dundee?

 

Isn't that what almost killed Dundee?

Aye but theres making the one big transfer and then theres making about 15 shite transfers for big money, big wages etc.

McLeish and Miller...and Strachan too.

 

Isn't that what almost killed Dundee?

 

Yes, that's an argument against it.

Ferguson, W Miller, Strachan

 

For the successful years.

 

Gillhaus, Peter Weir, Frank McDougall

for entertainment

Seems that most players mentioned are from the mid 70s up to the present day.  Are there any other Aberdeen players who'd arguably been an important part of the club's history.  For example, players from the hall of fame?

 

Henning Boel, Martin Buchan, Arthur Graham, Jim Hermiston, John Hewitt, Drew Jarvie, Fred Martin, Teddy Scott, Ally Shewan, Neil Simpson or Alec Young?

 

Don't know if anyone here's old enough to have seen many of these guys play, or even know much about them.

I'm going for:

 

Miller

Strachan

Weir

 

There are some great suggestions in this thread, and yeah we've signed some vital players that saved us from relegation.  But the 80s were a joy to watch so I've picked the two most entertaining players, who created so many of the chances for our strikers and were truly wonderful signings, as well as the on-field driving force of the whole era.

 

Mon the Dons!

Willie Miller, John Hewitt, Scott Severin

Interested that many of you pick Strachan. He was my childhood hero and even though he is manager of Celtic to me he'll always be welcome back to Pittodrie in any capacity.

 

However, I don't see why he is in our top 3. As much as he was an influential midfielder, I don't see him being any more influential than any of the midfielders or forwards of the 80s trophy winning era. He did well, great skill, and scored many a good goal, but so did Mark McGhee, Peter Weir, Neil Simpson, Dougie Bell, Eric Black etc. He drifted in and out of games, was on form, off form - I voted WM as he was to an extent the rock which our team was built on.

 

Just my opinion.... which is wrong as usual no doubt.

 

On another note, after much thought I'd put Theo in our top three. Like most I was crushed when Leighton left but Theo was outstanding (and you could even argue he was better than Leighton.) After McCoist crushed his face he was a different player though.

Keith Edwards, Gary Hackett and the great Dan Smith.

 

 

Though seriously, Brian O'Neill, Paul Bernard and Robbie Winters.

for me, from all the guys that I can remember, Gillhaus, Jess and Shearer