Aberdeen

Aberdeen winger, Topi Keskinen is on the verge of departing Aberdeen with Danish side, Odense eyeing up the Finland International. Topi signed for the Dons back in 2024, signing for around £800k from HJK Helsinki meaning Aberdeen will be looking for a good amount of money should the winger move on. The Finnish International was watched most recently on International duty against Germany in Mainz where the Danish outfit seem to be very keen in the Aberdeen number 81. Odense have undertaken lengthy scouting work in Keskinen and would like to add the former HJK Helsinki man to Denmark as they see the pacey winger as a real target for the Danish outfit. Topi has been recorded as one of the fastest winger in Scottish football with Topi regularly being played as a wing-back or forward for the Dons. Topi netted on three occasions last campaign with five assists also and has capped Finland at senior level 12 times. Stephen Robinson is eager to free up the wage bill and offload players to increase his transfer budget with many other faces set to be shown the exit door with Ante Palaversa, Marko Lazetic and Kenan Bilalovic all set to depart as well as duo, Kusini Yengi and Peter Ambrose also set to be sold. Graeme Shinne also departed last week, letting go of some big wages with the former St Mirren manager signing trio, Brad Lyons, Lewis Mayo and Alexsander Briedl. Connor Ronan is also set to be the fourth summer signing when the transfer window opens in the coming weeks.  

Aberdeen boss, Stephen Robinson is keen to keep striker Olusanya at Pittodrie following his loan spell. Robinson is keen to keep Olusanya at Pittodrie who originally joined Aberdeen on loan from MLS outfit, Houston Dynamo who is out-of-contract with the American side this summer. Robinson coached Olusanya back during their St Mirren days where the ex-St Mirren coach is a big admirer of the forward. Olusanya joined the Dons on loan in January from the MLS in which he previously had a loan spell with Doncaster Rovers at the beginning of this season failing to make an impact down south. The Englishman has featured 15 times in red failing to pick up a single goal with just one assist to his name – despite the stats, Robinson is clearly hopeful of keeping Olusanya in the North-East. Olusanya was a key player during their St Mirren days netting 12 times in 38 during 2024/25 for the Buddies as Robinson see’s the striker as a key player. Robinson states he is very keen in keeping him next season as he is hoping to sign consistent performers over ‘big’ names. Robinson on keeping Olusanya at Aberdeen: Robinson confirmed: “Certainly we will. I believe the American club has got an option to extend it, but it’s something that we’ll be looking at and actively discussing.” “You know, there’s lots of names being bandied about, and we just need to, first and foremost, get safe. I’ve let other people look at that in the background and advise me. “I was going to say once a week, but it’s probably every couple of hours, advising me where we are.” “I was going to say once a week, but it’s probably every couple of hours, advising me where we are.” Robinson is happy by Olusanya’s overall play but says the only missing part is a goal which he believes he will get eventually. The former St Mirren boss said: The Dons boss claimed: “He’s doing everything but scoring a goal at the moment, and if you ask any defender in the league, they hate playing against him. “He’s a huge threat. He’s involved in so many things good that we do, and I’ve worked with him, obviously, previously, and he’s a super boy. “He is infectious around the place. When you come into a changing room, that’s not won games. “One win in 16 when I took over and there are people feeling sorry for themselves. You get the little groups gathered together. “But Toyi is a different breed. He’s just happy all the time. He trains every day wood, and his teammates really, really like him, so he brings a positivity. “On the pitch, he’s one of the quickest players I’ve ever worked with. If we can just add the goals to his game, then he’s a real, real threat, which he’s shown in the other parts of his game.” Stephen Robinson also thinks that Olusanya doesn’t suit the MLS and believes the Scottish Premiership is the right place for him to play his best football. He added: “Yes, I think when I first came in, he wasn’t. He’d been in America for a year and hadn’t played a lot of football. It was a different style of football. “It was 40-odd degrees in Texas, and probably didn’t suit Toi’s game, if the truth be told. Toi’s a runner. He gets down the side of people and hurts people. “We’ve taken a little while to get him up to that fitness level, but like we’d done with Afeez, we stuck with him to get the game time in. I’m starting to see real good traits in him and Kevin forming a really good partnership.” Robinson is also keen on bringing Liam Morrison back from QPR for next season following his loan spell in Scotland. Striker pairing, Kusini Yengi and Peter Ambrose are both set to return from disappointing loan spells. Graeme Shinnie could be on his way out with no sign of any contact extension yet with a return to Inverness being possible following their promotion to the Championship.

Aberdeen born, Martin Boyle could be on his way to Pittodrie as his spell in Leith is set to come to an end. Aberdeen appear to be keen on the Hibs attacker who is set to depart as Stephen Robinson looks ahead to his first window as Aberdeen boss. Boyle confirmed he will be departing the Easter Road side with Aberdeen hoping to capture the Australian International for next season after many failed attempts in previous years to take in Boyle. Aberdeen have begun to shortlist potential signings but won’t go any further until they confirm they will be playing premiership football next campaign. Boyle has had many other options to consider with clubs from England also showing interest as well as many other teams from both Australia and Asia but a potential move back to where he grew up could be on the cards as Robinson looks to opt for experience. Martin Boyle has had a couple spells with Scottish clubs starting with Montrose which saw him join Dundee after some impressive form at Links Park. Boyle made 65 appearances with the Dens Park outfit, netting 5 goals where he went on to join Hibs, spending 12 years in Edinburgh being a star player for the Leith side which also included a short spell in Saudi Arabia with Al-Faisaly in 2021. Aberdeen are also set to loose many other players with Liam Morrison set to return to QPR, Geiger set to return to Hoffenheim, Cameron set to go back to Rangers after all their loan spells as well as their captain Shinnie who is out-of-contract come end of the season with Findlay Marshall who has impressed highly on-loan at Arbroath signing a new deal keeping him at Pittodrie until 2028. Elvis Bwomono is also set to depart with his short-term deal coming to an end as well as Tom McIntrye with Toyosi Olusanya returning to Houston following his loan spell.

The Aberdeen boss says Aberdeen are still not safe as they defeat Hibernian 2-0 at Pittodrie as they go five ahead of Kilmarnock. Aberdeen picked up their first win since January, defeating Hibs 2-0 in the Granite City which was a massive weight off their shoulders as they edge closer away from relegation. Aberdeen now sit 5-points ahead of 11th placed Kilmarnock with the Dons next fixture being at home to Killie with a win there almost securing their Premiership status next season. Robinson said: “I thought we were excellent throughout, even at 11 vs 11. Some of our play was really good. We didn’t look like we were in a relegation battle. “The situation we’re in comes with a lot of pressure, comes with a lot of criticism, some of it deserved as well and I thought the boys stood up to be counted today. “There were some really, really good performances. We spoke about keeping clean sheets, which the team managed today and that starts from the front. “We said if we deliver balls into the box, Kevin Nisbet scores goals. He’s proved that and I thought he was excellent throughout today. “His work ethic as well was excellent, and it doesn’t make us safe by any stretch of the imagination. But certainly, that’s what I’m seeing in training, and now we’ve been able to put that together on the pitch. “I just felt when they came in Monday morning, there was no excuse mentally. We got them going again.” Robinson agreed it was a much-improved type of performance with it being just their second league win in 2026. Robinson said: “Afeez (Aremu), Stuart (Armstrong) and Lyall (Cameron) thought ran the game. Stuart Armstrong’s a joy to watch at times. He gives us that composure. It doesn’t faze him at all. Afeez as well, now he’s getting fitter and stronger, knowing what we want from him. “I thought Lyall really contributed to that as well. So, to a man, there wasn’t a bad performance. The back three defended really well. We said don’t concede a goal, let’s get a clean sheet. Then you don’t lose the game. And they’ve done that even in the last couple of minutes when they were tired. “And they’ve shown that they have got that fight. I mentioned the fans as well, I thought they were superb, right behind the players. It helps so much when they do that.” “I told them to bottle the feeling because they haven’t won for a long time at home, I think it was the first win in the league since December and clean sheet since December.” Aberdeen will now have an extra weekend off as it’s Scottish Cup weekend as they look to build momentum going into the final bottom-six matches coming up. He added: “We said on Friday it was the best atmosphere we’ve seen for a long, long time, and some of the staff have been here and said it was the best atmosphere they’ve seen in maybe three or four months. “There was a little bit of togetherness, people smiling, people enjoying themselves and actually enjoying being together at the training ground. So sometimes that relates on to the pitch and if we can continue to build on that, there are good players here. We know there’s lots of things that haven’t been good enough this season and we worry about that at the end of the season.” There was some referee controversy as Gyamfi appeared to punch Hibernian striker Owen Elding in the back of the head which was given as a yellow following a VAR check. Robinson also said: “When they come over, you obviously expect the worst, don’t you? But nobody on either bench thought it was a red card. They thought it was a free-kick at best. “But on both benches we’d seen it back and we were amazed he was called over. So thankfully they’ve come to the right decision in the end.” Next up for the Dons is Kilmarnock at home  as they look to make the gap eight points between the two sides and steer away from the relegation scrap.

It’s been a poor season for the Dons as relegation is becoming a high chance as the Dons begin to really struggle. Aberdeen who sit 9th, joint 10th with St Mirren and just three points ahead of Kilmarnock seem to be in real danger with near enough no confidence in the Aberdeen squad and St Mirren starting to pick up form with Kilmarnock looking slightly better, this may be Aberdeen’s time over. Most the chats been about the entertaining title race going on at the top, but one of Scotland’s biggest teams may be set to be within the chance of Championship football next season. As of late, it’s been nothing but a disappointment in the Granite City with just one league win in 2026 which came against bottom of the league, Livingston after a 6-2 victory. The Dons have only won once in their last 10 – a 2-0 win in the Scottish Cup over Motherwell but were later denied a spot at Hampden against Dunfermline. To dive deeper into some stats, in the last 48 points which were available to Aberdeen, the Dons only picked up six. As well as that, Aberdeen have only scored once on the road this year with their last away win being at the start of December. Livingston who have only won once all season, have picked up more points (7) than Aberdeen (5) in their last 15 matches. Aberdeen’s last win against one of the top-six sides was all the way back in November – a 1-0 win over league leaders Hearts. The Pittodrie side also haven’t won a game in the last eight attempts and have conceded in all of their last six as Aberdeen enter the final hurdle this season. So Aberdeen haven’t had the manager bounce they had hoped for under Stephen Robinson in which Robinson has only picked up one point so far in charge which came against Falkirk. Next up for the Dons is a home match against Hibernian which will be nothing but a tough test to come. For other sides within the relegation spots, St Mirren travel to Celtic and Kilmarnock host Dundee at Rugby Park. Can Aberdeen avoid any relegation fears or will they grab that 11th spot with Livingston looking likely to grab that bottom spot?

Aberdeen boss Stephen Robinson said “He wasn’t [Nilsen] going to contribute to us staying up” in a recent interview as the Dons aim to fight off relegation. Stephen Robinson came out to say if Sivert Heltne Nilsen was to stay at Pittodrie, the Norwegian wouldn’t have been able to contribute to staying up which has gained some disappointment by the Aberdeen support with Robinson also claiming it would be “unfair” to let Nilsen depart. Nilsen departed the Dons a couple of weeks ago to return to Norway during a time which has been really difficult for Aberdeen as the midfielder left for FK Haugesund. The 34-year-old made 56 appearances in Red, scoring just two goals for the Pittodrie side. Many Aberdeen fans have shown disappointment due to the timing of the departure as Nilsen left during a very fragile moment as Aberdeen continue to try and avoid the drop in which was been a horrendous past few months in the Granite City. Robinson said: “Let me first say, Sivert is a great boy. I loved working with him for that short period of time. “(But) Sivert hasn’t played a game for… I think he’s started one game in months and months and months, so he wasn’t an integral part of the squad. “He got a four-year contract and a coaching offer, which was nearly a seven-year contract. “He made it very, very clear he wanted to go home. “And sometimes you have to be fair in life. “And if he wasn’t going to contribute to us staying up in terms of the pitch minutes – and previous suggests he wasn’t going to do that – I think it would have been very, very unfair to say ‘you can stay there and maybe not even be on the bench at stages’. “So yes, I believe that was the right decision.” Aberdeen appear to not have many older faces and experience which Nilsen had as the Norwegian was one of the older players within the squad although Robinson is known for playing the youth during in time in Paisley. After being questioned on whether Aberdeen need to look into some more experienced faces: “There’s a little bit of disparity in the squad, of course. “That’s not something I can focus on right now. I have to get the best I possibly can out of what’s available. “And then we’ll worry about it in the summer. “But yes, I certainly take your point on that, yes. “Well, we do that anyway.”  

Nilsen is set to complete a move away from Scotland this International break as a switch back to Norway looks likely. Sources in Norway have been suggesting Sivert is on the varge of joining Norwegian side, FK Haugesund ahead of the Norwegian transfer window shutting on Tuesday next week ahead of the season in Norway beginning on the 6th of April. Nilsen joined Aberdeen under former boss, Jimmy Thelin in 2024, joining the Reds’ from Brann where the midfielder originally played under Jimmy during their time in Sweden as Elfsborg. The midfielder missed Aberdeen’s famous Scottish Cup Final victory over Celtic at the summit of last season after picking up a strange eye injury in a training incident which kept the 34-year-old out for some time. Nilsen has been used as a centre-back on multiple occasions as Aberdeen try and battle the injury crisis at the back with most recently playing part at the back in their 2-1 defeat to Celtic at the beginning of March. Nilsen has made 56 appearances for Aberdeen, playing under three bosses during his time – Jimmy Thelin, Peter Leven and Stephen Robinson. The Norwegian International has picked up just two goals during his time in Scotland which both came this season. Nilsen has had some tough competition this season with many arrivals in midfield with the likes of Aremu, Cameron, Geiger all joining the club with the likes of Shinnie and Palaversa also competing for a spot with Nilsen being a regular this season. The move to Haugesund will move Nilsen closer to family with Haugesund being just a two-hour journey from where his live should the move away go through.

Aberdeen are close to signing former St Mirren defender, Elvis Bwomono due to a defensive crisis in the Granite City. Former St Mirren man Elvin Bwomono looks set to join Aberdeen after being a trialist for Aberdeen in a bounce game against Dundee at Pittodrie yesterday – Aberdeen running out 3-0 winners. Stephen Robinson’s side are keen to sign the defender on a short-term deal until the end of season as the Dons’ look to avoid relegation. Elvis played under Robinson for two years during their time in Paisley which could become the first signing at Pittodrie under the new boss. Bwomono was a key player in the success of the top six finishes in Paisley which saw the Buddies’ return to the European stage. The former St Mirren man most recently had a spell in Iceland which ran out very recently IBV making 10 appearances for the Icelandic outfit. Elvin made 43 appearances in Paisley during his two-year spell as a return to Scotland looks likely for the defender. Aberdeen are having a crisis along the backline with Tobers and McIntrye both missing for the remainder of the season with Knoester also missing but he may return for the final 3 or 4 games in the split. Nicky Devlin is also suffering with a knee injury but may return for the final couple games leaving Stephen Robinson with just Jack Milne, Liam Morrison and Gavin Molloy as his only options in defensive areas. Bwomono is mostly suited at right-back but can also play as a centre-back as Robinson continues to look along the free agent market.  

A look into how some Aberdeen fans reacted on social media following their 4-1 defeat in Glasgow yesterday evening. It was a disappointing evening in Govan as Rangers tore into struggling Aberdeen with Stephen Robinson’s men conceding four on the road. That has left many Dons’ fans furious as a relegation battle is in sight. Some Aberdeen fans believe it is the players that have been at fault this season with Aberdeen fan @AidenMoir4 on X (Twitter) saying: “Can’t believe Robinson gets slated for this, not a single manager would have done any better no matter how we play our football it wouldn’t work”. Some fans have turned on Robinson saying it was a ‘panic option’ but it seems like many fans say it’s the squad rather than managers. Back to the previous point of some fans blaming Robinson, @Dsmithy211 says: “I’ve seen enough, Robinson out”. – Stephen Robinson is getting the stick by some fans despite only being at Pittodrie for just under two weeks. In terms of the relegation battle, @RichardBro68526 suggests: “I hate to say this, we’re in big trouble the teams below us are picking points while we are struggling, worrying times.” – This comes as both Kilmarnock and St Mirren picked up all three points this weekend closing the gap to three points between the trio of clubs as relegation fears build up at Aberdeen. Some fans also believe relegation may be the best for the club as @Weescooty on X says: “Relegation will be best thing for us, board think we are too good to go down”. It’s some worrying times up North as many fans are believing Robinson wasn’t the right man, some feeling it’s the players who should be blamed as well as the majority of the fanbase feeling Aberdeen are well and truly in the relegation battle. Some interesting weeks ahead as Aberdeen travel to Paisley with Robinson facing his former side before taking on Hibernian ahead of the split. Could this be the year which see’s Aberdeen relegated for the first time in their history or will Aberdeen survive the drop and continue their Premiership status?