{"id":355153,"date":"2026-01-06T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355153\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:45:08","slug":"aberdeen-have-six-months-to-prove-themselves-says-sporting-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355153\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen have six months to &#8216;prove themselves&#8217;, says sporting director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alfie Dorrington has left Aberdeen following his second loan spell from Tottenham and Pfannenstiel hinted more players would move on, while also suggesting their would be recruits in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have a very good squad when it comes to individual players but 11, 15 or 20 players who are individually good don&#8217;t necessarily make a good team,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to have these connection players, who make the current squad better, to add that certain quality to make us into a better team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Will there be big changes coming in the future? 100%. Our squad is too big. The big first move is that we cut our squad. We move a few players out. [We can] add one or two positions with quality with players who have an immediate impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Maybe six positions we need to be stronger and we need to improve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the hunt for a new manager, Pfannenstiel says &#8220;there is some big names, there is some surprising names, there is some terrible names, there is all nationalities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He indicated the Dons would take their time so as to not &#8220;run into the wrong decision&#8221; but that the club wanted a &#8220;high pressing, hard working, high intensity team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Pfannenstiel said he has &#8220;full belief&#8221; in Leven, who won six out of 12 games over his previous two spells as interim manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alfie Dorrington has left Aberdeen following his second loan spell from Tottenham and Pfannenstiel hinted more players would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-355153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}