Source: Team_Talk
Aberdeen dismiss McGhee rumours
Aberdeen managing director Duncan Fraser has rubbished reports Mark McGhee or Willie Miller could lose their jobs this summer.[LNB] Rumours have been circulating that manager McGhee and director of football Miller's positions are under threat following the club's worst season for six years.[LNB]Both hit out at such suggestions this week and Fraser has now echoed those sentiments, telling RedTV: "This is a village in reality and stories grow arms and legs.[LNB]"Nothing's going to happen on those fronts.[LNB]"The team that's in place just now has been working a number of months, realising there's a lot of rebuilding to be done this summer.[LNB]"That's the end of it as far as I'm concerned."[LNB]He added: "I'm confident that they're all going to be in place next year and I'm confident that we'll get a better squad together for next season."[LNB]Fraser admitted it had been a "difficult" season but was confident of a good start to the next campaign.[LNB]He believes that is crucial for getting disillusioned fans back through the turnstiles.[LNB]"Fans being fans will come back if they see a successful team on the park," said Fraser.[LNB]Fraser also defended the club's transfer policy and pointed out the number of clubs in the United Kingdom who were living beyond their means[LNB]"We just have to look at the horror stories - and more will come out," he added.[LNB]"I'm determined Aberdeen Football Club won't be one of them."[LNB]Insisting the club's future lay in youth development, he added of the fans: "Players with affinity to the club and to the city are what they want."[LNB]Meanwhile, Fraser is confident any dissent over the club's move to a new stadium will disappear once construction commences.[LNB]The Loirston Loch project has reached the public consultation stage and Fraser said: "Once they actually begin to see the stadium being physically built, they have the certainty then it's going to happen.[LNB]"I think then the key is that once they go in and get the wow factor that a new stadium has then that helps as well.[LNB]"The key for us is to make sure that when they go into that stadium that they've got a home from home there."[LNB]Fraser believes the club will be in their new home in just over three years' time.[LNB]"Season 2013-14 is a realistic timescale by the the time it goes through the whole planning process," he said.
