Quote Originally Posted by Don_Corleone View Post
I agree, Ferguson has achieved more at the club than Wright did. My point was really that you can find another Ferguson easier than you can find another Wright. There’s plenty hard working battling midfielders kicking about. He’s not a playmaker and he doesn’t control games like McLean could and he isn’t the ball winner with leadership skills like Shinnie was. Don’t get me wrong, he’s done well for us overall and has been a great signing - but i don’t think we’ll miss him that much.
Ferguson isn't a defensive minded midfielder, neither is he an offensive minded midfielder, i would say he's more box to box with a good mentality, you say we wouldn't miss him to much, but he has scored 21 goals in the 3 years he's been at the club, when was the last time we had a central midfielder who contributed that many goals?, sure he took penalties when cosgrove wasn't playing, but you have to factor that in, look at the current central midfield options for Aberdeen , Brown, Ojo, Campbell, McGeouch, McCrorie, there isn't a goal in any of them, not consistently, so you are back to demanding 90% of the goals are scored by the front 3 with a few coming from defenders from set pieces etc

You need to get and or/keep as many goal scorers as possible at the club, espeically in this Aberdeen squad that can't score for ****, amazes me we want to keep McGinn, he's too safe these days and lacks agression, hes good for about 3 goals a season at this stage of his career, if that, he scored ZERO league goals last year but we want to keep him...............that i don't get, he just isn't getting into scoring positions anymore as he has lost the mobility