Jim Goodwin has shown a ruthless attitude ever since walking into the Aberdeen job in February to replace Stephen Glass.
The Pittodrie boss axed influential figures such as captain Scott Brown and club stalwart Andrew Considine as 10 players headed for the exit door during the summer. That tasked the former St Mirren gaffer with the job of recruiting the bulk of an entire new squad in order to improve on a tenth placed Scottish Premiership finish last time out.
And that meant 11 new faces arrived at Cormack Park as strike duo Luis 'Duk' Lopes and Bojan Miovski set the Dons back around £1million with the recruitment team searching the continent for talent. But they have shown they are value for money so far with Goodwin insisting that securing exciting young players like Duk on a three-year-deal from Benfica is his scouting blueprint. He said: “We believe if we bring in young players, develop and educate them properly, they will add value and become sellable assets if required.
