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Tuesday night's main interview is with Jeffrey Monakana:
They do say that football is getting faster every season and if you look at the Aberdeen team, you ’ll see just how true that is. But you never can stand still in this game, so we’ve injected yet more pace into the equation with the arrival of Jeffrey Monakana on loan from Brighton. He seems to be pretty happy to have joined a team that is very definitely on the move …
“There are a lot of very good players in the dressing room. There is so much pace in the team. This is one of the quickest teams I have come across.
“I have told the boys that the training is the best I have come across during my time in the game, including when was a youngster at Arsenal. The training is very, very good and the standard is so high. You have to be fully prepared every day and focussed. If you don’t do well in training then there is no way you will be involved on a Saturday.
“I grew up in Tottenham in North London. The environment I grew up in was kind of tough. Luckily, I had a good family behind me to steer me away from trouble and they got me involved with football at a very young age.
“Arsenal was a great place to learn the game. There were a lot of guys from the same area as me, so you were in amongst a lot of friends and it was one big family. I was there from nine to 18 and we had a very good side. I just started to stop enjoying my football and lost my confidence so I spoke to my coach Liam Brady. I told him I wanted to leave and even though it was against his wishes he helped me and I moved on from there with my career.
“I went to Preston and very quickly regained my confidence. As soon as I went there, my game changed. I started producing skills that I had not been able to produce during a game before. It was weird, everything went for me. I started scoring goals.
“My mentality has now changed. I now have the mentality to go out and be positive, to play with no fear. So when I came on and made my debut against Celtic, I did not feel apprehensive.”
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