Erik Sviatchenko turns Aberdeen FC transfer agent as former Celtic star gives lowdown for Stefan Gartenmann

Stefan Gartenmann says Erik Sviatchenko turned salesman on his Aberdeen switch.

The defender has revealed the former Celtic star was a big influence on his loan switch from Midtjylland. They paired up in their time in Denmark and he turned to the Houston Dynamo defender when Barry Robson came calling on the last day of the transfer window. Gartenmann said: “He told me great things about Scottish football. We are the same type of players, so I hope I can fit in as well as he did. He told me Aberdeen was a good club.”

The 26-year-old made his debut against Hearts last weekend before impressing as the Dons ran Eintracht Frankfurt close in Thursday’s Europa Conference League group opener. Gartenmann believes they had the much-fancied Germans on the ropes and the biggest disappointment was they didn’t fly home with something. He said: “There is no doubt it has been a tough start to the season.

“The performance on Thursday shows we have a really strong team. It showed how strong we are that we were sitting in the away dressing room in Frankfurt really disappointed we never took anything. We felt we should have taken something.

“Frankfurt are a top team and they were panicking a bit at the end. We had the momentum in the last 15 to 20 minutes. We can be really proud of our performance.”

The Bundesliga cracks made it out with a 2-1 victory after being pegged back and Gartenmann added: “We went in with the game plan to keep it tight as long as possible. We know we can’t compete with them for 90 minutes

“We needed to take our breaks, keep our shape and to frustrate them. It was really annoying to play against us and you saw for long spells they didn’t know how to play against us. We were really strong on the counter-attack and