It’s no shock to see so many gamers coming out and in of Pittodrie. In spite of everything, final season was a fairly horrendous one for my previous membership, all issues thought-about.
However Goodwin has wasted no time in placing his stamp on the aspect.
Within the area of a month Aberdeen have been firmly remodeled into Jim Goodwin’s staff.
By my reckoning, 9 of the gamers signed by Stephen Glass have departed, with solely Christian Ramirez, Marley Watkins, David Bates, Dante Polvara and Vicente Besuijen remaining.
On prime of that, Andy Considine, Dylan McGeouch, Funso Ojo and Michael Ruth weren’t supplied new offers, whereas Dean Campbell has gone on out on mortgage for the season.
With Goodwin additionally hinting different members of his squad have been advised they will go in the event that they discover new golf equipment elsewhere, it’s clear he has a agency concept of which gamers he will probably be utilising within the new season.
To be honest to Goodwin, he has carried out just about the identical as what his predecessor did. The one distinction is the present supervisor was judged on any person else’s staff from February to Might.
I’ve no drawback with that and fortunately neither did Goodwin. He got here in and was accountable for coaching and setting the staff out.
However the final week has proven we’re firmly in a brand new period now, following the signing of Bojan Miovski, Kelle Roos, Jayden Richardson, Anthony Stewart and Liam Scales, who’ve joined Goodwin’s first addition Ylber Ramadani in making the transfer to the Dons.
With the promise of extra to come back, the supervisor will spend the following couple of weeks placing his new-look aspect collectively forward of the Premier Sports activities Cup opener at Peterhead on July 10.
I might not learn an excessive amount of into any discuss of formations or model of play. Each supervisor talks about how they need their staff to play, however followers are actually all in favour of one factor solely for my part – profitable soccer matches.
With that in thoughts Goodwin’s focus has been on addressing two areas of concern for Aberdeen. The primary was their poor clear sheet document and the second was the shortage of objectives within the staff.
The arrivals of Scales, Stewart and Richardson, to not point out a brand new goalkeeper in Roos to problem Joe Lewis, ought to go a protracted strategy to addressing the goals-against column.
Folks will probably be anticipating large issues of Miovski, however it’s clear the supervisor remains to be searching for some extra creativity in there with Conor Ronan and Jamie McGrath nonetheless excessive on his record of signing targets.
I stay hopeful the standard of men coming in might persuade Lewis Ferguson to hold round for one more season a minimum of.
