Jim Goodwin insists Andy Considine WILL get Aberdeen swansong and reveals contract decision on Mikey Devlin

Jim Goodwin insists Aberdeen fans will get a chance to give Andy Considine a fitting send-off before his summer departure – because he’ll definitely see first-team action between now and the season’s end.

Dons boss Goodwin defended the club against accusations that they’d made a “derisory” offer of a one-year contract extension to the long-serving defender.

Just six weeks into the job, the new gaffer said Considine had been “emotional” when it was agreed that his time at Pittodrie would come to an end.

But Goodwin, who also confirmed Mikey Devlin won’t have his contract extended beyond the end of the current campaign, stressed the need to be hard-headed when spending the club’s money.

Referencing Considine’s absence from the first team since last August, a result of the cruciate ligament damage suffered in a Europa Conference League defeat to Qarabag in Azerbaijan, Goodwin said: “There were people out there, in the media, saying we’d made him a derisory offer.

“It was far from derisory. The offer made to Andy was very fair for someone who has been a great servant to the club.

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