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Happy Birthday Aberdeen FC. 120 years of unbroken history.
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6 minutes ago, coprolite said:
PURCHASENew job? Trying to persuade Thorup
Aberdeen have thrown their love at Jess Thorup, but it must be doubtful whether the former FCK coach will leave for the Scottish League
Jess Thorup is a topic at Aberdeen, but the question is whether he is tempted by that opportunity. Photo: Jens DreslingAdvertisement:Follow FootballCould a job in rainy Scotland tempt Jess Thorup?
In any case, it does not sound like the most attractive thing for a coach who is probably aiming for a foreign league at a higher, sporting level.
As Ekstra Bladet understands it, Aberdeen has in any case thrown its great love at the Danish master coach.
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Jess Thorup was fired from FC Copenhagen in the autumn. Since then he has not had a job, but with an annual salary of DKK 9 million. DKK, Thorup is in no hurry to find something new. Photo: Jens Dresling
He has been named as the main target to replace Barry Robson, who is only interim manager following the sacking of Jim Goodwin in January.In recent years, Aberdeen has developed into a bit of a chaos club, and this may make Jess Thorup politely decline the offer from Scotland.
Since the sacking of Derek McInnes in the spring of 2021, the club has had five managers.
In this way, it can be very difficult to persuade Jess Thorup to take the job in Aberdeen, which previously had a Danish manager. In the period from 1999 to 2002, Ebbe Skovdahl was manager of the club.
Advertisement:It is still unclear whether the burning interest has led to a concrete offer from the Scots.
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Jess Thorup is currently unemployed. Scottish Aberdeen have thrown their love at the Danish top coach. Photo: Ernst van Norde
The economy can of course also play a role. Jess Thorup was on a very lucrative contract at FC Copenhagen, where he received an annual salary of around DKK 9 million. DKKIt is far from certain that Aberdeen can honor wage demands of that magnitude. Added to that are the perspectives of being a coach in the Scottish league, where only Celtic and Rangers FC usually fight for the title.
Aberdeen are currently fourth in the Scottish Premier League with a whopping 41 points ahead of Celtic in first place. There are three points off third place, where Hearts are currently placed.
DKK9m is slightly over £1m p.a.
Even accounting for caretakers, we’ve not had five managers since McInnes? Thought it’s only been Sheerin and Robson?
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3 hours ago, Dons_1988 said:
I’m not sure we’ve seen enough to confirm he’s worth the outlay, have we?
Does his shithousery towards the home crowd at Tannadice not count?
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1 hour ago, Crawford Bridge said:
Was that not more to do with him being a sicknote rather than a bad player?
I don't remember his time at Aberdeen as Hibs were at the seaside at the time.
He had an excellent first half season when he joined and got called up to the Scotland squad then only managed something like twelve league games the rest of his Aberdeen career. 37 league games across four and a half seasons with us tells its own story.
It’s difficult to tell whether he is a good/bad player now given how little he’s played over the past five seasons.
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15 hours ago, Crawford Bridge said:
No thank you.
On a serious note, the article suggesting it is a minter. Hibs and Aberdeen (along with Hearts) are pretty much the same level. Why would Hibs consider a player who's done Brussels sprout at Aberdeen?
I don’t disagree but, in fairness, you did just sign Mikey Devlin.
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26 minutes ago, O_Kahn said:
I hope we have a substantial sell-on clause for Ferguson. Although some of the big Italian clubs (Inter/Juve) seem to be a little skint at the moment so perhaps a move to another country is possible if Bologna decide to sell him this summer.
There were a few reports at the time that we’d agreed some sort of sell on agreements but no clarity on the details from what I recall.
He was linked with Juve in the Italian press previously (usual paper caveats apply) but you’d imagine the likes of Roma/Lazio etc could still pay a decent fee if he were to stay in Italy.
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Interesting interview with Mattie Pollock in the Scotsman, genuinely sounds like he’s loving his time here and working under Robson.
He’d be great to get on loan for another season (can’t see us getting him permanently unfortunately), so hopefully Watford’s next new manager once Wilder gets the chop won’t fancy him.
On a side note, I saw Lewis Ferguson scored at the weekend and has been Bologna’s Man of the Match for two games running (including against second placed Lazio). Bet he’s glad he didn’t go to Watford…
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4 hours ago, Mr. X said:
Am I right in thinking you've been pretty good at home all season, it's your away form that is pish?
A bit like Hearts really but with a negative goals difference.
Pretty much. Though our goal difference was reasonable/at worst competitive versus Hearts and Hibs until Goodwin’s ‘one bad week’.
We conceded eleven goals during said bad week and have a current goal difference twelve behind Hearts and five behind Hibs.
Home table we are third (level with Hearts), away table we are ninth (Hearts are sixth - taking me completely by surprise, St Johnstone are two points clear in third).
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1 hour ago, Savage Henry said:
This has all the makings of an Italy win, doesn’t it? Hopefully Italy play like they did first half against Ireland and butcher everything.
I’d be surprised if it wasn’t Maitland at 15 and Kinghorn at 10, knowing Townsend.
Guess we’re going to find out…
19 minutes ago, flyingscot said:JGP definitely changed things.
If it takes you so long to get a tall guy to the front of the lineout to make it hard for the flanker to throw in the ball you don't deserve anything.
Whilst I think we would have reacted had Gilchrist or Gray been on the park, that’s not an excuse for the rest of them and you’re fully correct. Other teams missing their line out leaders wouldn’t make the same mistakes we did.
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Lots of rumours today that Finn is out of the Italy game.
Haven’t seen enough of Healy recently to comment on how he’d be but if Hogg is also out then you’d imagine he’d be starting. Kinghorn has had a pretty decent tournament at FB imo but we can’t really be starting him at ten.
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2 hours ago, aDONisSheep said:
I don't get all the doom and gloom. Ireland are an exceptional team at the moment. They are an absolute force up front, imagine being able to replace Doris with Conan, it's terrifying. I watched France simply blast England off the ball, time and again.
We gave both of them a proper game.
Third best in the six nations is probably about right, but bear in mind that, that's behind what I believe to be the two best teams in the world.
We are at a point where no-one can take us lightly, and we haven't been able to say that for a long, long time!
I love this squad, and yesterday has only shown, that we need to improve, not re-build.
Yours
aDONis
I think that’s fair. Ireland are the best team in the world for a reason and their depth is genuinely scary. We more than competed up to the point at which we changed our front rows. They can bring on the likes of Healy and Kelleher, we brought on Bhatti, Brown and Berghan, none of whom I think would even make the wider Irish squad.
I still think Ireland would have won, but if Duhan (who had a bit of a mare) pops a pass during his break and we go in at HT ahead then it’s a completely different game.
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I see their CEO sold nearly $4m worth of stock under two weeks ago. That seems rather fortunate timing…
HSBC are getting a slightly better deal for their £1 than Craig Whyte did.
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There’s absolutely no chance it’s going to be Steve Clarke.
Genuinely no clue who it will be though.
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4 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said:
I know it went badly at times with Turner on as well and there were plenty of other issues today, but you surely can't keep picking a hooker as bad at lineouts as Brown. Ashman has to be ahead of him if only on the basis that he doesn't guarantee butchering set-pieces, and even Matthews can take a lineout properly.
I can see Ashman being on the bench next week. I’d have had him in the 23 before today but don’t think Townsend trusts his scrummaging.
We were noticeably poorer when the starting props went off.
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2 hours ago, Thenorthernlight said:
I always thought his interest was lukewarm, knowing the mad world of the English Championship would turn up a job sooner or later.
It’s a pretty depressing list of leftovers now though.
If he actually had been a serious contender then you’d imagine anything would have happened a few weeks ago when he was first rumoured to have turned us down. Not sure why it all resurfaced.
I still don’t think there’s a rush, I’d be happy with Robson until the end of the season.
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1 minute ago, Merkland Red said:
You'll certainly know which ones he's fallen out with.
Probably all of them going by his track record
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On 28/02/2023 at 16:39, Crawford Bridge said:
Luca Toni stoated about the Italian lower leagues and bottom end of Serie A until his late 20's.
He ended his career as a World Cup winner, Bundesliga winner & golden boot and two time Serie A golden boot.
He did once get shackled by a back four of Andrew Considine, Zander Diamond, Lee Mair and Alan Maybury though… the big c**t
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47 minutes ago, mishtergrolsch said:
I honestly can't understand why we've picked a manager that was in charge of a team that downed tools for him after watching our team down tools for two managers.
He'll get my support till we get ragdolled by his ex team who will be gagging to beat him.
f**k off United. f**k off again then f**k off some more.
I fully expect you to beat us then lose every other game this season.
Your defence will be good though, that’s the easy part to fix.
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1 hour ago, Zetterlund said:
Hostile takeover by Brechin City?
There's a 12-foot hedge currently being planted in front of the George Fox stand.
Maybe not the hedge fund some United fans were hoping for…
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1 hour ago, staggy1929 said:
I'm not sure on United's financial situation and what they're willing to pay to get the right man in but getting Danny Cowley would be worth a shot I reckon. Courts is an obvious candidate I suppose. I think Mulgrew might be a good shout purely because it means he's out of the starting 11.
Mulgrew would 100% play himself though. He still thinks he’s prime Maldini.
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Fuuuuuuuuuck
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You just know if we concede two penalties in a row, we will get somebody binned.
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1 minute ago, Bodie said:
It's cool that despite Rugby having rules and a lot of them, it's often just refereed on vibes alone.
The problem is, you can normally find multiple offences at nearly every ruck so so much comes down to what the ref actually chooses to penalise as they never penalise every offence. Hence so much frustration with referees.
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Fantastic defence there
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The Famous Aberdeen - Season 2022/23
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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As much as I think McCrorie is a decent player for us, I don’t think there’s a chance we’d get above £750k for him.
There is absolutely zero chance we’re getting £2-3m for what is essentially a 25-year old utility player.
Precisely. Duk was playing very well under Goodwin so I don’t think he’s had a dramatic uptick in form but Robson has found a way to use him more effectively.