Jimmy Thelin reveals double Aberdeen injury blow as boss declares transfer business is now essential

Jimmy Thelin has confirmed Aberdeen winger Vicente Besuijen will be out for four months.

The Dutch winger suffered a knee injury in the last game against St Johnstone. Besuijen is unlikely to be back until around April, while squad defender Jack Milne faces three months out with an ankle issue. Thelin said: “Yeah, there's some bigger problems there of course. I think now, as I remember right now, Jack Milne is more or less 12 weeks and Vinny is actually even more, is around 16 weeks.

“So it's not good news for the players of course, but I’ve talked to both of them. They are strong characters and have an optimistic mindset. So it's the same, we have to go through this together and push them and help them and support them in this period. It's two good people and two good players. Then of course it's difficult in the career to get the setbacks, but as before we have to support them and give them all we can to make a good way back.”

Thelin has insisted like Pape Habib Gueye and Dimitar Mitov, who are also out, they will get round all their injured stars. The Swede stated: “They always have my trust, but they're performing better and better and they evolve a lot and they grow as a player and also some leadership skills.

“But I told both of them that this can happen, but it doesn't mean that we forget where you were and your place and what you can do and we still believe in the players. So we need to support them there.”

The injuries have hit the Aberdeen squad and Thelin is looking to move in the January market. He explained: “I think we have to, when you're building a squad you have to have the long term, what we want to look like in the future, how we want to evolve as a squad, but also sometimes take care of the short term