SPL - McGhee: Aluko has Dons future

Eurosport - Mon, 21 Sep 15:35:00 2009

Mark McGhee has insisted Sone Aluko's unauthorised trip to join Nigeria's Under-20 squad will not have a bearing on his future with Aberdeen.

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The midfielder caused consternation in the Granite City by flying out to Spain for a training camp with the national side, before returning to Aberdeen on Friday night.

Aluko shrugged off the furore by producing a starring display in the win over St Mirren at the weekend and McGhee is keen to draw a line under the affair.

"It is not even an issue," said McGhee, who will lose Aluko to the Under-20 World Cup this week. "He worked hard in what was a difficult week for him.

"The real sickener is that we will be missing him for a few weeks because we know he is a match winner.

"One of the reasons why we played Davide Grassi on the left of midfield was to see if he could do a job for us there and I think we saw enough to say he can.

"Sone doesn't have to be as big a loss as he might have seemed, but he certainly will be missed."

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  1. Nigeria is still much in the game as they qualified to­ the next stage as one of the best 3rd place team

    From Ado, on Fri 2 Oct 9:43PM

  2. Thats not true Lawan. Niogeria is still much in the­ game as they qualified to the next stage as one of the­ best 3rd place team

    From Ado, on Fri 2 Oct 9:42PM

  3. It doesn't really matter now that Nigeria is out of­ the world cup, after loosing to Venezuela and Spain.

    From LAWAN, on Wed 30 Sep 6:47PM
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