Vicente Besuijen and the one key Aberdeen quality Jim Goodwin demands as he sets out transfer blueprint

Jim Goodwin has warned his Aberdeen players there’s still a job to do to ensure they’re safe from being dragged into the Premiership play-off spot.

And the Dons boss pointed to small-in-stature Vicente Besuijen as the kind of big character they’ll need to take the heat off them with a win against Hibs this weekend.

The Pittodrie side’s only-goal win against Dundee last weekend did ease the pressure slightly.

But Goodwin insisted his men can’t assume they’re out of danger after one of their poorest seasons for years.

Besuijen, 21, was an unknown quantity when he was signed in January by previous Reds’ gaffer Stephen Glass for £420,000 from Dutch side ADO Den Haag on a four-and-a-half-year deal.

But Goodwin reckons the Colombia-born winger, who was adopted as a baby by a Dutch couple and who experienced youth football on the books of top European sides Ajax and Roma, has shown the kind of personality all his players need.

He said: “You need strong characters in the building to be able to handle the level of expectation at a big club like this.

"The wee man certainly has something about him.

“He really has real self-belief and great confidence. It doesn’t matter how many times he gives the ball away he keeps looking for it to get into the game. He never shirks a tackle.

“You could see that against Dundee.

"Guys were kicking him up and down the park in the second half but he continued to get up and get on it.

“That was very pleasing. The recruitment team deserves a lot of credit for that one because that was done prior to me coming in.”

The indications are Goodwin sees Besuijen as a key member of his squad for next season as he bids to show the Dons fans that, under him, they will be a force once more following the