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. 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.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."Nothing's going to happen on those fronts."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."That's the end of it as far as I'm concerned."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."Fraser admitted it had been a "difficult" season but was confident of a good start to the next campaign.He believes that is crucial for getting disillusioned fans back through the turnstiles."Fans being fans will come back if they see a successful team on the park," said Fraser.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"We just have to look at the horror stories - and more will come out," he added."I'm determined Aberdeen Football Club won't be one of them."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."Meanwhile, Fraser is confident any dissent over the club's move to a new stadium will disappear once construction commences.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."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."The key for us is to make sure that when they go into that stadium that they've got a home from home there."Fraser believes the club will be in their new home in just over three years' time."Season 2013-14 is a realistic timescale by the the time it goes through the whole planning process," he said.