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<\/p>\nThe Dons are set to hand their academy graduate a Pittodrie reprieve and a first-team chance under Stephen Robinson.<\/p>\n
18:00, 29 Mar 2026Updated 19:45, 29 Mar 2026<\/p>\n
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Findlay Marshall(Image: SNS Group)<\/p>\n
Aberdeen are closing to in on a new long-term contract for Findlay Marshall.<\/p>\n
The midfielder has been a standout for Arbroath<\/a>, netting 14 goals so far this season.<\/p>\n The teenager is out-of-contract in the summer. Record Sport broke the story last month that the Dons were going to offer him a new deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Those negotiations are now at an advanced stage and are expected to be finalised very soon. Marshall will return to Aberdeen<\/a> in the summer and join Stephen Robinson<\/a>\u2019s first-team squad.<\/p>\n The player has continued to train with Aberdeen\u2019s first-team the nights he doesn\u2019t train with Arbroath.<\/p>\n It caps a remarkable turnaround for Marshall as he had been told last summer, under Jimmy Thelin, that he was unlikely to have a long-term future at Aberdeen.<\/p>\n His time with the Championship play-off pushers has put him in the shop window and convinced Aberdeen to do a U-Turn.<\/p>\n Sporting director Lutz Pfannenstiel has watched Marshall regularly and has been a big driver in pushing this deal through.<\/p>\n Robinson wants to have a team with a strong academy presence, to join the likes of Jack Milne and Dylan Lobban in his first-team squad.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Kusini Yengi is set to return to Aberdeen this summer. The Australian international has suffered a thigh injury while on-loan at Cerezo Osaka.<\/p>\n Yengi suffered the setback in training, after only four games. The J-League side have the big striker on-loan until June.<\/p>\n They have an option to sign Yengi on a permanent basis, but the indication is that won\u2019t be triggered.<\/p>\n It remains to be seen if he will get another Aberdeen chance under Stephen Robinson, although the likelihood is that the Dons will try to move him on this summer.<\/p>\n It is another setback for the 27-year-old who hasn\u2019t had much luck since he moved to Aberdeen in the summer.<\/p>\n Kusini Yengi(Image: SNS Group)<\/p>\n The Australian had hoped to make his mark at Pittodrie and to win a place at this summer\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n He struggled to make an impact at Aberdeen.<\/p>\n Yengi scored one goal in 10 games and it quickly became clear that manager Jimmy Thelin didn\u2019t fancy him.<\/p>\n Aberdeen sporting director Lutz Pfannenstiel was charged with getting him a move in January.<\/p>\n Japanese side Machida Zelvia had travelled to Scotland to get a loan deal signed.<\/p>\n Yengi knocked that back and it opened the door for his brother, Tete Yengi, to make the move to Machida Zelda.<\/p>\n He then also made the move out to the J-League but moved to Cerezo Osaka, where fellow Australian, Arthur Papas, was in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dons are set to hand their academy graduate a Pittodrie reprieve and a first-team chance under Stephen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13717,176410,218,30724,152724,176411,16293,8058,101,23922,23923,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-502833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-aberdeen-fc","tag-arbroath-fc","tag-football","tag-jimmy-thelin","tag-lutz-pfannenstiel","tag-record-fc-spfl","tag-scottish-championship","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-sports","tag-st-mirren-fc","tag-stephen-robinson","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502833","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=502833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0_Heart-of-Midlothian-v-Aberdeen-William-Hill-Premiership.jpg\")
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