Aberdeen Back where it all began

your finance director must absolutely love you. still great to follow. how much progression has there been amongst the rest of the Scottish clubs? Doesn't seem like they are really threatening in Europe?
 
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your finance director must absolutely love you. still great to follow. how much progression has there been amongst the rest of the Scottish clubs? Doesn't seem like they are really threatening in Europe?
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Until last season they had done nothing. But last year 3 teams got to the last 32 of the Europa League and 2 this time so will be interesting to see if especially the old firm can kick on by keeping there youth.
 



End of Season 2028/29



Scotland
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Title number 11 was the most predictable part of our once in a lifetime quadruple. Withe a potential European Super Cup & World Club cup next summer we could be talking about a sextuple!
Celtic spent well and got results for a change as they have the best points return in the save beating us a few times along the way. Rangers nipped into the final Champions League with Morton and Hibs just one point behind. Hibs will be a totally different package next year under Anita. Falkirk were 6th but only 1 point behind Hibs. Hearts have there worst season missing out on the top 6 for the first time. Raith, St Mirren and Hamilton had quiet runs to safety while Dundee's mega fall from grace is complete as they drop into the playoffs as Queen of the South go down to be replaced by Forfar making a return after a short 2 seasons out of the top flight.




Updated League goals still on the to do list
Biggest League Win Celtic 9-0 Aberdeen


Twice we got 9 goals but still chasing that 10-0 win




SPL Play-Off
Inverness 3-2 Dundee

A thumping win in Inverness was enough to secure promotion as Dundee couldnt overturn the 1st leg defeat and become the biggest team to drop out of the League.






Scots lower league
Missed the playoff pictures again. Noting too exciting happened, i think






Big League review
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I've mentioned it before but it sounds so good i'll say it again. Man Utd win the Premiership by a point from Man City with the London teams well behind.
Thrilling end to the Spanish season as Barcelona win the title on the final day. Real Madrid led on had to head as the final games kicked off but lost there final game and the title. My favorite Spanish team Atletico & Bilbao take 3rd and 4th
Napoli retain there 4th Serie A title in 5 season and joined by AC Milan and Roma in the Champions League. Atalanta, Lazio & Inter get the European spots
Like Napoli Leverkusen win there 4th title in 5 years while Bayern miss out on the Champions League again and Monaco wrestle back the French title and Marseille nab 2nd ahead of PSG. Is the transfer Ban breaking them already?






Aberdeen
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Micael was our best player on ratings. Henrique was my favorite and is in line for a mega deal. Haskan stepped up to take Hocks job




Another stadium expansion
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Were well on teh way to having a proper mega stadium. Not sure why or how Aberdeen City can als boast a 40,0000 community stadium as well at teh Donald Stadium that will hold 58,000




Aberdeen Fans player awards
Juan Pablo Pesce
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With 38% of the vote he holds off Klein and Micael. No idea how Henrique missed out on this never mind the top 3!




Aberdeen Finances
£221m + £133m
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We almost trebled our income for the season despite paying out over £50 million to the directors. Our biggest challenge will be keeping the Sponsorship & stadium tickets money in line with the total club wages. At the moment there both around £60m.






Other Competitions




Europa League
Tottenham 3-1 Marseille
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Spurs win yet another European title beating the great new French hope




Scottish Teams in Europe
Aberdeen - Champions League Winners
Rangers - Europa League Last 16
Morton - Europa League Group
Hearts - Europa League Play Off
Celtic - Europa League Group






European Rankings
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Aberdeen's 2nd Champions League title takes them into the top 5 in Europe. Rangers are 37th and Celtic 47th




Didnt expect this in the reputation section No1!!!!
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World Rich list
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Our summer of expense see us jump into the next section of rich teams in the £700 millions and on the verge of the top 10.






Awards




SPL Player of the year
Jose Henrique
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Finally someone cared!




SPL Young Player of the year
Xavi Garcia
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Only made 19 appearances and as a back up player he's one of our weaker players.




SPL Top Scorer
Matthis Klein
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4th year in a row and a total of 10 golden boots in total.




Scottish team of the year
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Only 5 players from Aberdeen. Dario Dellagiovanna is a midfielder by the way.



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Missed loads of this now but amazing how far you've come!! Hopefully you can smash that 9-0 record soon.
 



Pre Season 2029/30






Season Targets
SPL - Winners
Scottish Cup - Win
League Cup - Win
Champions League - Q/F


Champions league is a lottery. We avoided big teams all the way to the final after winning the group. If we dont win the group were up against it right away.




Pre Season Prices
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Looks familiar except the transfer activity.




Aberdeen Squad
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Looks quite similar. Klein missing the first 2 months of the season is our big story




Youth team
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We managed to extend loans on players that were already out on loan despite the transfer ban so Gunciu and Jimenez can keep working on progressing to be top class players







Aberdeen Transfers
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IN
2 youths were on pre arranged deals. Found it very difficult to move on players. Can see us loosing quality players on free's like we did with Andre Luis




Out
Caddis may have had a future but not in the current set up with so much midfield talent in the u19s. Andre Luis would have been my back up left back but would not resign and with the transfer embargo we miss out on around £10m for him.






World Transfers
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I was expecting to see Chinese teams making huge transfers but nothing to report of note here. Laziness of missing out on some French teams on the transfer ban means Celtic get £7.5m for there star striker and we see one of about 10 players we tried to move on.



Manager Changes
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Ewan McNeil managing Peterhead raised a smile. Excellent player in my days as Berwick manager.
 



August



Perfect start for our European Champions,




Fixtures
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Routine wins in the League and the same for the kids in the League Cup


Rangers 0-7 Aberdeen
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Undoubted highlight was our 45th and biggest win against our biggest rivals, not in a positional sense but emotional






SPFL Table
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Were the only perfect team left. Forfar make a stunning return to the League and with 10 points are about 1/3 of the way to safety already. Rangers make a poor start loosing 3/4 games and even worse are Hearts and Inverness who are yet to pick up a point.




Champions League Group Draw
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We were the first team out of the hat and what a disaster of a group we were given. PSG and Bilbao could easy put us into the Europa League if things dont fall our way. Maybe our hardest group ever?




European Super Cup
Tottenham 1-2 Aberdeen
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Our 3rd super Cup and our 3rd win. We were dominant for the first hour cutting Tottenham off in the middle and kicking Dele Ali off the park before the break. Harry Kane gave Spurs hope before the end but we held on and were only a World Club cup away from winning everything!




Transfer Window
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Aberdeen sell youth keeper Pinga and loan out 3 u20's. Nothing worth noting in the SPL


Its a sad world when Sturm Graz splash £4.8m on the biggest deal. Former Don John Duff moves across the Championship.






Scotland




Belgium 1-1 Scotland
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Our first draw with Belgium after both sides got 3 wins apiece so far. Belgium had the better of the game but the shakey old legs of 37 year old Thibaut Courtois mishap to give us a valuable point




Group
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Belgium are a point clear but played a game more and still have to come to Hampden.



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Autumn 1



Celtic nick a point from us at home but elsewhere its happy days in dandy land


Fixtures
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After a draw with Celtic Forfar feel our wrath and we put 8 past our early season closest rivals then 4 past Hearts. We beat Rangers in the cup to top of a great start.




SPFL Table
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Still close after 8 games. Falkirk move into 2nd only 4 points behind. Goal difference never matters too much but if the rest stay this close we could need to rely on the 21 goal lead we have already.




Champions League
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Starts well for us and we're level with PSG at the top going into the double header in the next update







Scotland
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No change in any way shape of form as we beat Poland in my 150th Scotland game then thump Montenegro. Belgium copy each result score for score. We play Armenia next and if we win there then we'll only need to avoid defeat at home to the Belgians




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Autumn 2



All good except one night in Paris which was a close match till we went gung ho in the last 10 minutes were they scored 3 goals.


Fixtures
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Our Annual trip to the league cup final set up by beating Hibs
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The bad side of Playing PSG
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The good side of playing PSG
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SPFL Table
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Were moving away but not much, 6 points after the first quarter of the season. Little between 3rd and 6th with the pack right behind them. Bottom two look like they might be the bottom 2 for the rest of the season.





Champions League
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Its tied at the top but unless Bilbao can get a result in Paris we look set for 2nd unless of course they win there last 2 games.






Scotland


Two games to go Two wins and we're in the finals. Not as easy as you might think. We have lost both our squad strikers.


Armenia 1-5 Scotland
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Both back up strikers got goals. Now i have to decide which one to play for the big game.


Scotland 2-0 Belgium
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Memories of Kevin Gallacher getting a double against Austria to secure a spot at the 1998 world cup. This time the less romantic name of Joel Douillard O'G hit the second goal that was to secure top spot




Final Table
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Quite routine in the end and we'll be off to Spain next summer.



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League Cup Final 2029

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Aberdeen vs Celtic
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Aberdeen 4-1 Celtic
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We were without a few players that have been ruled out with injurys and it started badly with Celtic taking the lead after only 2 minutes. One of our stars that we were missing was Pesce but his back up came in for him and won the cup with 2 goals that had us in the lead by the 11th minute. Two more south american's Emerson & Viscovich ended up making the game a walkover by the end to move to 54 League cup games unbeaten. Now we have defended the League cup we will go to the World Clb Championships trying for the first time to hold ever trophy we possibly can.





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December



As well as winning the World Championships and the League cup we won all our other games to round out 2029


Fixtures
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Victory in Spain secured a last 16 spot sadly only 2nd as PSG won out. In the league our final 4 games of the year ended with a aggregate score of 20-0




SPFL Table
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Celtic will not go away. We do have 2 games in hand but even so that gap is only 2 points! Rangers are miles clear in 3rd then 4th to 8th should be the teams fighting for top 6. Hibs and Inverness are the first teams who needed to and changed there manager




Champions League Group
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Champions League Last 16 Draw
Aberdeen Vs Barcelona
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Probably the game i wanted least. Having said that history show we have 3 wins each from our 6 games so we should not be so defeated this early.




Scotland World Cup Draw
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This could not have been much kinder. Anything less than top spot would be a disaster



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January




We send 4 players into the world team of the year
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Fixtures
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Rangers hold us at home with a late equalizer to force our 2nd draw of the season. Success elsewhere



Morton 2-3 Aberdeen
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This was our most dramatic game in seasons, up there with the Man City Final in fact for thirlling endings that once again showed this teams never say die attitude that keeps me going. With 4 minutes to go we were in the same hole we found ourselves at half time 2 goals behind then a lifeline from Pesce. We got the ball back right away and bombed forward and Klein who has had a poor month pulled us level and when i'd mentally settled for the point sub Hoekstra struck the winning goal for our hardest earned 3 points of the year.




SPFL Table
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Finally we have a gap! We go 11 points clear with Celtic loosing to us and dropping points and there games in hand. It looks like with 14 games to go all thats left ot fight for are 5th & 6th and the bottom 3 teams over who will stay out of the relegation spots.


The race for the Golden boot is as open as it has been in years. Klein is only scoring a goal a game and his injurys through the season has given several other contenders a shot at his title. Vaughan especially deserves at least 1 golden boot title after scoring over 200 SPL goals and 5 top 3 finishes.

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Craig Mackail Smith comes in to try and save Raiths shambolic season.
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Transfer Window




World
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Its all about China and the Championship who i expected to be paying out more than that!




Aberdeen
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In
Two join and only 1 more to come in June and that will be all our pre arranged transfers till 2038
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Out
Our first major sale of the season is Mauro Rodriguez. Possibly a top 10 player at the club but always behind Viscovich and Tsaousakis i decided to drop him from all footballing activitys to try and force him out after he turned down a few offers in the summer. With hindsight i really really should have tried to sell him before the embargo as i could have trebled the £11m i got from Quanjian. Still a £5m profit but the biggest mistake i've made with the clear out before the embargo as now any position we have a lot of depth the wages are not to bad. Pawel Zmuda never got a work permit and i've saved 6 months wages by giving him away now and 4 players leave on loan



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February


As usual at Aberdeen we had good and bad




The good is we have achieved EVERYTHING in Scottish Football that i set out to do thanks to this!
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Fixtures
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Hamilton stun us on my first match of the day. Felt sick as a dog that we wouldnt have a unbeaten season. We recovered well to win every game by at least 4 goals. Our Back up and youth players do the business in the Scottish Cup were we're into the Semi Finals




Champions League Last 16

1st Leg
Aberdeen 1-1 Barcelona
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A tight game that showed why Barcelona are the team i like to play least. Barca took the lead early but from then onwards it was ALL Aberdeen a o'g from Popa was the least we deserved and we have now got to go and get a result in Spain


2nd Leg
Barcelona 2-0 Aberdeen
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I decided we would go for a more attacking effort after we controlled the first leg but Barca away turned out to be a different story. We didnt do enough to slow down there attack and as they went 2 goals clear on the half our we were left chasing the game where we never got a goal ourselves and for the second time our defense of the title fell well short.


PSG and Arsenal are also upset and out of the contest.
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SPFL Table
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We're only 11 points clear at the top so the Champions League exit might turn out to save our SPL title run. Morton are closing the gap on Rangers for 3rd while the battle for 5th & 6th is still open. At the bottom Inverness have been at the bottom all year and at this stage look done for. St Mirren and Raith will hope to close up with Forfar to make it a 3 way fight for the play off spots




Youth Intake
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4 Youngster make up the basis of our intake this season.



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End Of Season




Some of our league records are smashed


We finished with 152 goals
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Chalmers finished with an amazing 30 clean sheets from 38 games
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Fixtures
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We win our final 8 league games and the cup Semi Final with Hearts




Final SPFL Table
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Another title was in the bag just before the split. The top 4 are more separated than ever. Celtic are starting to look like a force however so if we dont keep our standards up or start loosing key players the they could ****** a title from us. Inverness go down St Mirren under new manager Simon Murray are into the play offs




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Sorry for the lack of action this week. Work hours are mental till Friday at least so probably wont get much if anything up this week
 



Scottish Cup Final 2030

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Celtic vs Aberdeen
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This looks familiar. Celtic have ran us closest since the transfer ban and are now stronger than at any other point in the save. We usually come up big in the big games against them and we'll need to again to make it Four Treble's in row.




Celtic 0-3 Aberdeen
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The scoreline flatter how nervous the first 70 minutes of the match had been. Once we made our changes MOTM Stelios Tsaousakis who has probably outperformed Viscovich as a second striker gave us the lead. Klein's final goal of the season made it comfortable and McLaughlins o'g was the final nail in Celtic coffin. Were still 21 wins of Celtic's total of 38 wins.




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End of Season 2029/30






Scotland
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Title number 12, 16th in total and were now only 40 behind Rangers total of 55, counting title won in the tax dodging era. Celtic and Rangers both improved there totals from last season and positive signs of a more competitive SPL are there at least. Shame we have only 1 player over 30. Morton finish 4th and best of the rest again 7 points clear of Hibs and Hearts, the first time in a while they both make the top 6. Hamilton and Falkirk could have just as easily been in the top 6 instead, its all very close between them. That left the bottom 4 miles adrift even so Inverness were cast adrift at the bottom all season and are worthy of bottom spot while St Mirren were the weakest of the other remaining teams and fall into the playoff meaning little Forfar and Raith will be in the top flight again next season




Updated League goals still on the to do list
COMPLETE!!!






SPL Play-Off
St Mirren 4-0 Partick
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No threat of loosing a SPL team this year. Two routine wins for the buddies mean Dundee are the only new team for next year.






Scots lower league

Quick update on the former SPL sides. Partick, Motherwell, Dunfermline, St Johnstone and Ross County are in the Championship and will be joined by League 1 winner Kilmarnock. Dundee Utd however are stuck in mid table in League 1. That would be a fun save if it was to start now. Ayr become the biggest team to drop out of the league loosing to Vale of Leithen in the playoff.






Big League review
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The Manchester teams rivalry is taking over the Premiership and this time it was Citys turn to take the title by 3 points despite United only loosing 2 games all seasons. No Change in the top 6 or 7 teams after 15 season
You cant see it but Leverkusen defended the German title joined in the top 3 by Dortmund and Bayern Munich. Sounding very familiar also!
Napoli own Serie A winning it by there biggest margin yet. Roma as usual make the Champions league with Inter Milan in tow. Juve slump all the way to 11th, Maybe trying to get relegated to buy a new super team.
No final day slip ups for Real Madrid this year as they hold of Barcelona and a welcome return from Atletico in our first 3 way title fight for a while.






Aberdeen
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This season Pesce and Micael drove us with Klein suffering a rare case of less goals than games. Still he's only 32 and lewis Vaughan hass shown there's still a few more seasons for Klein to work on his legacy. Silva in defense is the only major change from last year fitting in like a glove as Oyarzun, Tsaousakis and Lopez are comfortably good enough to start in this team and poor Douglas is getting struck with a injury bug that could threaten his long term aim of being our no1 striker but actually our end of season report told us our 3 mian strikers totaled 13 injurys in the 10 months we played football






Aberdeen Finances
£235 -£2m
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Shame that we lost money since we wanted to never make a loss. Wages will have to be looked at but on the plus side there will be no more transfer fees and all that comes with it for 8 years.




World Rich list
£670m - £56m
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We take a huge hit in our club value but are still 11th in the world. We basically swap with Bayern Leverkusen as only they and Atletico seen huge surges in there value.






Other Competitions




Champions League
Porto 1-2 Man Utd
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If i was to loose my title to anyone then i'm glad its Man Utd taking there first title in the save




Europa League
Atletico Madrid 2-1 Benfica
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Two strong Champions League teams over the years played out a strong final






Scottish Teams in Europe
Aberdeen - Champions League Last 16
Rangers - Europa League Group
Morton - Europa League Group
Celtic - Europa League Group
Falkirk - Europa League Qualifier
Hibs - Europa League Play Off






European Rankings
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Despite a poor season Aberdeen move up to 4th in Europe. Rangers are 37th and Celtic 47th






Maybe for the first time regression on the coefficients.
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Awards




Aberdeen Fans player awards
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No disrespect to Pesce but it will always amaze me that Klein doesnt get in the top 3.




SPL Player of the year
Matheaus Micael
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The last of our front 4 to win the award and the 8th Aberdeen clean sweep of this award




SPL Young Player of the year
Federico Lopez
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The fist but im sure not the last time we'll see this guy winning awards. Out top youth prospect and its no contest.




SPL Top Scorer
Matthis Klein
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5th year in a row and a total of 11 golden boots in total but non closer than this




Scottish team of the year
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A total of 8 players from Aberdeen




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