Jimmy Thelin carried out his pre-match media duties on Monday lunchtime to preview our Premier Sports Cup Group A match against Airdrieonians. The game on Tuesday evening will be Jimmy’s first in the Pittodrie dugout. RedTV subscribers can watch the press conference by clicking here. 

“It is going to be really nice to play at home for the first time and get the feeling of that and meet the support that is there. I am looking forward to it. It is really exciting for myself and the rest of the staff. We have to play the games and get used to the rhythm. Hopefully it is going to be a good evening.

“When you analyse the trainings and the games, we still have things to work on. The most important thing is the players, I think share the same vision of what we want to achieve together. There is still a lot of work to do but we are up to it and everybody is working together. The analysts, the staff, the players, everybody has the same direction of what we want to achieve. That is the most important thing and during this time now in the cup, trying to find ways to win the games but still be clear. We trained today and yesterday also and try to progress all the time. The players work hard to get ideas out on the pitch because that is the most important thing what we show up on the pitch when we play. Step by step I think we are growing as a team and that is the most important thing right now but also to find ways to win games.

“Bojan will be in the squad tomorrow. So far everything is the same as last week and he is going to be in the squad tomorrow ready to play. In the beginning he was not 100% and now he is 100% and then we had a talk before the first cup game, there was a lot of things going on around him and then the situation calmed down a little bit and focus on the training but now he is ready to play again and that’s where we’re at right now.

“I think it is still quite early in the transfer window but we are going to get closer and closer to it closing. So far we have tried to push the players on the training pitch. I wanted to keep that hunger and to prove themselves and catching up with the team evolution and how we grow as a team. Some players have surprised in a positive way. For example, I hadn’t seen so much before of Shayden but he is someone that is doing really well now. I think some players also have more to give. We always work closely with our Head of Recruitment and our scouts and try to identify parts but let’s see what happens before the last day of the window.

“What we have seen so far of Airdrieonians, they have the same coach as last season and how they perform and how they attack, they have scored five goals. They have a strong team spirit, they came back in the last game to win that game, it was important for them. How they attack, they have a lot of overloads in the central areas, they are doing really, really well so it’s going to be a tough game but we need to be ready and also do our things really, really sharp to win this game tomorrow.”