Miovski the 'poster boy' for Aberdeen's trading model

Aberdeen chief executive Alan Burrows believes the club's track record of selling players to Europe's top leagues in recent years will help the Dons with their own recruitment.

Striker Bojan Miovski became their latest big-money export during the summer, joining La Liga side Girona in a move that netted the Pittodrie side a record transfer fee.

Burrows said: "You have Miovski going to Girona, Ylber Ramadani going to Lecce, Scott McKenna going to Nottingham Forest, Calvin Ramsay going to Liverpool and Lewis Ferguson going to Bologna.

"We have demonstrable evidence that we are selling players into the top five leagues. So if you are a young player coming through or you are a player playing in Europe and you want a launchpad to play at a very good level, play at European level, play at Scottish Premiership level at a team that wants to compete but also has a track record of then selling on to the big five, Aberdeen is a very good place to do it.

"And that is clearly a message we are putting out there but it is also a message that other agents and people around the game can see themselves.

"In all walks of life anything you sell has to have credibility and we have got the credibility in terms of those player sales so any one that we do further enhances the reputation we have got."

He added: "We have got a player trading model that requires us to sell at the back end but we also want to be successful here at Aberdeen, we want to be competing at the right end of the table, we want to win trophies.

"To do that the players we bring in to develop and sell, first and foremost need to have an impact on the first team and Bojan is the poster boy for that."