Former Aberdeen boss Stephen Glass has confessed there probably was too many "older players" at Pittodrie when he left the hot seat before Jim Goodwin's major revamp.
Experienced first-team stars Andrew Considine, Dylan McGeouch, Funso Ojo and Declan Gallagher followed veteran Scott Brown out of the door this summer, after the former Celtic captain left the Granite City early in Goodwin's tenure. The former St Mirren boss has brought nine new players in at Pittodrie, and admitted he needed a major reshuffle ahead of the first game of the season at Celtic Park.
The Aberdeen boss told Sky Sports: "From my point of view when I came in I thought there was too many on the wrong side of 30. I'm not ageist by any stretch of the imagination but I just felt that when I came in in February there was at least 10 I think, and I want to have squad with a better balance in it, so we've done it.
"That is what the recruitment has been all about, bringing in some young, hungry and ambitious players with pace. You need that in the modern game and we have it in abundance. We have definitely decided to freshen things up."
Glass, who was on punditry duties for the league opener, admitted he agreed with some aspects of the critique. He said: "I think it's fair enough, to an extent.
"We definitely had some older players and I think if we go back to my comment about three or four transfer windows, it takes time normally to change a group players to what you want it to be. I don't think there can be any doubt that Jim has been heavily, heavily backed in this window."
When pushed on if he felt Goodwin was backed more than him, Glass went on: "I don't want to compare it. I am just saying Jim has been heavily backed in this transfer window.
"Some of it has been funded by the sale of Calvin Ramsay and Lewis Ferguson, two young Scottish players who no doubt need older players like Scott Brown and big Andy (Considine), for example.
"There is no doubt senior players at a club help young players, but getting the balance is what you try to do. Different managers have different takes. and Jim's take is different than mine.
"His head is on the chopping block now, as was mine when we were trying to win games. It's fair enough, I won't hold anything against him. It's not Jim Goodwin that sacked me. "
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