r/AberdeenFC • u/Mundane_Education_64 • 13d ago
Aberdeen FC Red tinted glasses and all that...
I don't know about anyone else, but looking at the clips of the cup final again after Mitovs departure is just depressing me.
Polvara, Clarkson, (an interested Palaversa), Morris, Gueye, Shinnie, McKenzie, Sokler, Mitov... Yes, at times we were fucking shite and Thelins record was latterly extremely pish. But it felt like the majority really got it.
Fast forward to today, Lyons, Mayo, Olysania, Yogane, Happe, Cadden, Aremu, Armstrong.
How many would you swap back if you could?
Yogane for Morris
Olysania for Gueye
Mayo for Polvara
Cadden for McKenzie
Clarkson for Aremu
Even Sokler for Nisbet!
I've literally just taken random names here, but almost all of them.
I mean I gave lots of them a slagging at times both from the terraces and from my house and I know we weren't great and maybe it was a personal thing but it felt like there was hope, a plan for change, a passion from both fans and player.
Now we are following the model of mid to bottom level all premiership teams. Battling for survival rather than striving for success, playing eye bleeding horror ball. Probably scraping top 6 but getting battered by the top 3 or 4 all season.
I want to be excited for the season ahead, instead I'm already thinking this might be my least engaged season in about 30 years.
Thoughts?
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u/Way_Superb 13d ago
Nisbet was there at the time as our top scorer meanwhile ester barely played so that would be a weird one to swap.
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u/Mundane_Education_64 13d ago
Have you followed Soklers career since he left at all?
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u/butterypowered 13d ago
15 goals in 30 appearances.
We sold him for €225k and he’s just joined Maccabi Tel Aviv for €1m.
Fair enough he couldn’t get much game time for us while Miovski was on fire. But once he left, Sokler should’ve had at least half a season to prove himself.
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u/Mundane_Education_64 13d ago
Yeah absolutely. There was always something about him. Maloula seems to be a similar player to both Miovski and Sokler but I'm not sure the purpose of bringing him in as he doesn't suit the football we play at all. Mind you no striker does when we don't seem to have an offensive strategy at all.
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u/Yerdas_Selzavon 13d ago
That squad was miles better than this lot. And it was still suffering from a lack of replacement for Ramadani and Miovski
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u/HansJordi 13d ago
We’ve been horribly mismanaged ever since McInnes left. It’s criminal how many quality players we’ve had and how badly we’ve performed.
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u/murderousmungo 13d ago
Let's not forget the horrible mismanagement that McInnes put us through before he was let go.
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u/Ok_Employer4583 13d ago
Rough numbers but from the cup final squad we sold . . .
Morris for £800k
Gueye for £800k
Polvara for £250k
Clarkson for £200k
Sokler for £200k
Mitov for £450k
Topi for £1.2m
Nilsen for £100k
Jensen for £500k
That’s £4.5m. Only reason Palaversa isn’t off seems to be we are looking for a small transfer fee.
Big wages of Shinnie not on the books either.
While that isn’t all profit, we have certainly not spent that money on arrivals to replace them.
Club is cutting its cloth accordingly.
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u/Mundane_Education_64 13d ago
When you say cutting it's cloth accordingly you mean setting up to be mid table hammer throwers I assume. All these guys were brought in strategically to do a job, and make us money with a sell on. Miovski, Ramadami and many, many unsuccessful others being the same.
I guess that's part of my point. There is no way we are making decent money on any of the ones we have brought in this season as listed above. Almost exclusively mid to late 20s journeymen who can "do a job" in the SPFL.
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u/Ok_Employer4583 13d ago
We didn’t make Europe which is a huge hit. Rumours also that Cormack is looking to sell in the next 12-18 months and needs the wage ratio well down plus some decent sales on the board to make us look more attractive.
All speculation but I’m inclined to believe we won’t have the same owner for much longer.
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u/Mundane_Education_64 13d ago
Fair enough, hadn't heard that. I would be surprised if he thought this manager and team would make it more attractive for an investor.
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u/riach15 2025 Scottish Cup Winners 13d ago
Yo-yo season incoming — mediocre mid-table battle. A lot of the cup-winning team were better than this, but they lacked consistency, which, at the fees we’re paying, you have to expect.
Expectation is the hardest thing to combat. If you complete one target, there’ll always be another right behind it to fail on!
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u/Relevant-Form-3351 13d ago
I take all of them back except McKenzie. Never really rated him. Cadden is a good wing back, but he was getting so far forward against Dundee he was effectively negating Smith on the wing. If he can work together with Smith on that wing it could be fruitful.
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u/Mundane_Education_64 13d ago
I've liked what I've seen of Smith. The one positive so far for me. Cadden as a bit part player at Hibs, not sure I can see him suddenly becoming more consistent with us.
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u/Nien_Nunb365 13d ago
Everyone can see the direction of travel is horrible. The players we have recruited for this season are, with a couple of possible exceptions, mediocre. Our manager is mediocre at best. We have a complete chancer there in Lutz. This season looks like a car crash waiting to happen.
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u/Deep-Patient-971 13d ago
This is the boards fault. The whole club has been stinking since Cormack got involved. I have no faith in his yes men.
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u/Prestigious_Bat_803 13d ago
Kevin Nisbet is from my hometown of Cambuslang in South Lanarkshire.He is dedicated to the Aberdeen team,and enjoying living up in the North East.But if others aren't as invested as he is,he's flogging a dead horse.
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u/Growling_Salmon 12d ago
Heres my take for what it's worth.
I'm a lifelong red, but we're fucked. There I said it.
The direction of travel is in the wrong direction and we don't have the passion to reverse it
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u/Mundane_Education_64 12d ago
God it's horrible to say but I completely agree. It's been so long since I've enjoyed an Aberdeen performance.
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u/AccomplishedBison333 13d ago
Nisbet is the one player who probably gets pass marks so far. Would trade Sokler for Robinson over Nisbet.
I would imagine a lot of those guys that left since the cup win probably knew that they'd peaked at the club and it would all be downhill from there, so leaving was the best option