Apologies if this is posted elsewhere, from the BBC:

 

Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne has promised transfer funds to new manager Craig Brown and assistant Archie Knox in the January transfer window.

 

But Milne also expects players to leave Pittodrie in the coming weeks.

 

"There's not bags of money available in Scottish football, that's just the reality," Milne told the club website.

 

"But we said to Craig and Archie that we would work with them to find money to enable them to make the moves they want to make in January."

 

And Milne added: "The moves they make will probably end up being a combination of some new money and maybe moving some players on that they don't feel are part of their long-term plans."

 

The Dons, who are currently bottom of the Scottish Premier League, have traditionally resisted large spending in the transfer market preferring instead to invest in youth.

 

"Fans will always say that if there's a chairman who they believe has money to burn, he should be throwing that into the football club," said property developer Milne.

 

"We have provided a lot of financial support to the football club over the years and we will continue to do that.

 

"But I've never been a believer that throwing money at problems is the way to deal with them.

 

"Sometimes it helps but quite often it's responsible for doing damage within the game. The real underlying issues are not addressed.

 

"Football is all about getting the best out of a squad available, that's a manager's job and that's what Craig and Archie will set out to do."

 

 

"When you don't make a change, there is potentially an even greater cost of not making a change," added Milne.

 

"We came to the conclusion it was the right time to make a change.

 

"If you believe it's the right decision to make you have then got to find funds to make the change.

 

"In neither case funds have not come out of the football budget, we have found that money from elsewhere."

 

Another area of spending Aberdeen will incur in is their protracted move to a new 21,000-seater stadium, estimated to cost around £15m.

 

"We don't have the option of doing nothing," Milne said.

 

"This stadium (Pittodrie) has a limited life and every year we stay here it costs us a heap of money. That's just going to continue to increase. At some point we have got to make the move."

Scratch the above, season long loan deal.

Scratch the above, season long loan deal.

 

Thats good to hear! I was concerned as there was chat of him heading back. Not had the opportunity to see him personally, more than seems to add a bit of steel to our defence?