Stephen Glass in pointed Aberdeen transfer claim as he backs Jim Goodwin over squad gripe

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.

Experience first team players 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 need 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, brining 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.

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