Bojan Miovski eyes Calvin Ramsay path as Aberdeen striker makes Premier League confession

New Aberdeen star Bojan Miovski didn’t get to meet Calvin Ramsay but he saw the kid moving from the Dons to Liverpool and understood Pittodrie could be a springboard to the English Premier League.

And the North Macedonia international makes no bones about wanting to ply his trade in that division at some point in his career, knowing full well in order to achieve that goal he will have to score plenty of them in the Granite City. Miovski got off to the perfect start with a debut goal against Raith Rovers on Sunday, just five minutes into an Aberdeen career that had been delayed by three weeks due to work permit issues.

But the striker is here from MTK Budapest and has set himself a lofty target of finishing among Scotland’s top three scorers in his first campaign in his first season. The 23-year-old said: “I am so excited to have started very well. I am thankful I had the penalty to shoot as it gave me more confidence in the game and the future in the league.

“When we got the penalty my team-mates said I can take it. The coach also said that I can shoot. I hope to be the penalty taker – if I score, why not?

“I will give everything on the pitch to score a lot of goals. I think every striker wants to be number one in the league. If I score 10 or 15 goals, I want to finish in the top three.”

Miovski knows he is playing catch-up with his team-mates on the fitness front but is confident that he will be up to speed quickly. He added: “I knew that I had to wait three weeks (for the work permit). I trained along with a programme from the club. It was hard to train alone but finally I am here and I am happy about that.

“My legs were a little bit heavy because I had not played games. That was my first game of the season. The