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Ryan Cryle

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Joint sports editor at The Press and Journal (and Evening Express) in Aberdeen, Scotland. Covering Aberdeen FC and all other north of Scotland sport.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 1d

🆎🆕🍻Dons fan going to Prague in December? NOT managed to get a Sparta v Aberdeen ticket?

This may interest you...

Aberdeen FC Prague fanzone: Inside bid to organise Czech capital party for Red Army after around 2,000 fans miss out on match tickets

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Aberdeen FC Prague fanzone: Inside bid to organise Czech capital party for Red Army after around 2,000 fans miss out on match tickets

There could soon be confirmation of a solution for Aberdeen fans who have flights and hotels booked, but who failed to get tickets for the Conference League away clash with Sparta Prague.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 1d

🔴🎥Fun chat on whether Jesper Karlsson v Dundee🇸🇪, while superb, is the best individual Aberdeen performance in decades, and other great individual Dons showings since 2000 we could think of -

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(Side quest: Name the players from the teaser...)

Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 3d

Bulgarian cult hero Ilian Kiryakov has given a rare insight about his time with Aberdeen FC👇

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Ilian Kiryakov: Ultimate Aberdeen cult hero gives rare interview on time at Dons

Ilian Kiryakov was an Aberdeen player from 1996 to 2000 - and the fan favourite has spoken about his time at Pittodrie.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 9d

🇺🇦 ⚽️ A sad, yet stirring tale -

Spoke to Shakhtar Donetsk fans now living in the Aberdeen area (including Mariupol refugees the Husaks), who - despite having fled, like Shakhtar, from the war-torn Donbas/Eastern Ukraine - will watch their team tomorrow

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Shakhtar Donetsk-supporting Banff refugee family who fled Ukraine war relish Aberdeen visit - with Shakhtar a 'symbol' of Donbas resistance

The Press and Journal spoke to two Ukrainians who will be watching their team, Shakhtar Donetsk, face Aberdeen at Pittodrie.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 9d

Off this week to move 🏠

But I recently put together this Q&A on Shakhtar Donetsk with an analyst from one of their main league rivals.

A guy whose JOB it is to know Aberdeen’s Conference League opponents inside out🔍🔍

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Aberdeen v Shakhtar Donetsk: FIVE big questions on Conference League visitors answered - by analyst from Ukrainian title rivals

The Press and Journal learned all about Aberdeen's opening Conference League opponents Shakhtar Donetsk from Dmitro Kurpas, who analyses Ukrainian Premier League rivals for Kolos Kovalivka.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 13d

🆎Catch-up - Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin's latest presser:

🔴 Players have character to fix form
🔴 Must run until they 'can't walk'
🔴 'Too much hesitation and then we turn back/ play backwards'
🔴 No Dave Cormack targets
🔴 Kjartansson's injury

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LIVE: Updates from under-pressure Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin's pre-match press conference ahead of Motherwell Premiership trip

Catch up on Aberdeen manager Jimmy Thelin pre-match press conference in build-up to Saturday evening's Premiership away meeting with Motherwell.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 14d

We go again... another Friday, all the usual build-up and then key news/views from the presser itself -

🔴LIVE: Updates from under-pressure Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin’s pre-match press conference ahead of Motherwell Premiership trip

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LIVE: Updates from under-pressure Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin's pre-match press conference ahead of Motherwell Premiership trip

Key updates from Aberdeen manager Jimmy Thelin's Friday 1.30pm pre-match press conference in build-up to Saturday evening's Premiership away meeting with Motherwell.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 14d

Feel like a Dons win is needed this weekend to build any excitement for this one.

But this is worth a read regardless. Promise.

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EXCLUSIVE: Dnipro captain who faced Aberdeen on Conference League attack-dogs Shakhtar Donetsk - and personal toll of War in Ukraine

Oleg Shelayev skippered Dnipro against Aberdeen in Europe, and is now a coach at Conference League rivals Shakhtar Donetsk's Ukrainian rivals Kolos Kovalivka.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 14d

🆎🆕 EXC: Chat with ex-Dnipro captain Oleg Shelayev (who also played for Shakhtar Donetsk, and now coaches Ukrainian Premier League rivals Kolos Kovalivka👀).

We talked Aberdeen v Dnipro '07, Dnipro's demise, Shakhtar's strengths and the toll of the war.

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EXCLUSIVE: Dnipro captain who faced Aberdeen on Conference League attack-dogs Shakhtar Donetsk - and personal toll of War in Ukraine

Oleg Shelayev skippered Dnipro against Aberdeen in Europe, and is now a coach at Conference League rivals Shakhtar Donetsk's Ukrainian rivals Kolos Kovalivka.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 15d

🔴🆕Jimmy Thelin on resting Aberdeen playmaker Leighton Clarkson at Dundee United – despite two starts this season - and not sending on Graeme Shinnie.

Thelin admits time for talking over with fans, but he still has Dons board's support as things stand.

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Jimmy Thelin on resting Aberdeen playmaker Leighton Clarkson at Dundee United - despite midfielder's two starts this season

As well as explaining why he left out Leighton Clarkson out his squad at Tannadice, Aberdeen boss Thelin admitting the time for talking is over amid his team's horror start to the campaign.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 16d

🔴ICYMI: My talking points as Jimmy Thelin’s Aberdeen now on their worst league start since before the Millennium.

The biggest question for me - what were the manager's 'adjustments' and, fundamentally, what was the plan to hurt Dundee United?🤔

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Dundee United 2 Aberdeen 0: Three talking points as Jimmy Thelin's Dons suffer ignominy of worst league start for 26 years

It was another painful night for Jimmy Thelin's Aberdeen against Jim Goodwin's Dundee United - read our talking points.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 16d

My talking points from lost-looking Aberdeen's display in their Premiership defeat to Dundee United at Tannadice...

🆎🆕😞Dundee United 2 Aberdeen 0: Three talking points as Jimmy Thelin’s Dons suffer ignominy of worst league start for 26 years

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Dundee United 2 Aberdeen 0: Three talking points as Jimmy Thelin's Dons suffer ignominy of worst league start for 26 years

It was another painful night for Jimmy Thelin's Aberdeen against Jim Goodwin's Dundee United - read our talking points.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 17d

Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin says 'dynamics' with Dave Cormack and Alan Burrows are unchanged amid the Dons poor start to the season.

🔴Catch-up on Thelin’s pre-match press conference ahead of Dundee United trip here:

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LIVE: Jimmy Thelin's Aberdeen press conference before Dundee United trip, as he reveals Dave Cormack and Alan Burrows backing

Catch-up on the latest Aberdeen press conference, as under-pressure boss Jimmy Thelin met the media to preview Tuesday's rearranged Premiership match with Dundee United at Tannadice.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 18d

A chat with Paul about Aberdeen's struggles.

As I replied to someone yesterday, I am still hoping it all clicks for Jimmy Thelin, but the results/performances in the coming games will just have to be an improvement on the defeat to Motherwell.

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WATCH: Can boss Jimmy Thelin save Aberdeen FC tenure?

Ryan Cryle and Paul Third discuss whether the under-pressure Dons boss can lead his side out of the mire following their Premier Sports Cup exit to Motherwell.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 19d

Spoke to some Aberdeen fans (some pretty irritated) after today’s Premier Sports Cup defeat to Motherwell…

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WATCH: Aberdeen fans speak after Motherwell cup loss - 'My patience is done with Jimmy Thelin'; 'Jimmy's got immense credit with me still'

We talked to Aberdeen supporters straight after the Premier Sports Cup defeat to Motherwell, and some were pretty angry with boss Jimmy Thelin.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 20d

🆎Catch-up on Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin's latest pre-match press conference, as the Dons attempt to secure a return to Hampden in the League Cup

🔺We ARE getting better - Thelin
👂Blocking out noise from fans/pundits
🤕Team news

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 21d

Well?

Evening Express Sport @eesport.bsky.social · 21d

What would YOU ask Dons boss Jimmy Thelin at his Friday press conference?🤔

🔴LIVE: Aberdeen pre-match press conference ahead of Premier Sports Cup quarter-final with Motherwell

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 21d

My weekly Aberdeen pre-match press conference ramblings here… 👇🏻

🔴🆕LIVE: Aberdeen pre-match press conference ahead of Premier Sports Cup quarter-final with Motherwell

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LIVE: Aberdeen pre-match press conference ahead of Premier Sports Cup quarter-final with Motherwell

Key updates from Aberdeen's latest pre-match press conference, as the Dons attempt to secure a return to Hampden in the League Cup.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 23d

Latest following yesterday's Aberdeen/Steven Gunn news...

🆕🆎 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Aberdeen hunt to replace director of football Steven Gunn – with different profile of ‘sporting director’ on chiefs’ wish-list

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EXCLUSIVE: Inside Aberdeen hunt to replace director of football Steven Gunn - with different profile of 'sporting director' on chiefs' wish-list

We lift the lid on Aberdeen's likely move to replace departing director of football Steven Gunn with a more technical sporting director, plus an update on the transition coach search.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 24d

WATCH: 5 Aberdeen FC stats Jimmy Thelin must improve – but boss is going nowhere🆎🎥

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WATCH: 5 Aberdeen FC stats Jimmy Thelin must improve - but boss is going nowhere

Ryan Cryle and Paul Third discuss bad statistics for Aberdeen and Jimmy Thelin following the 0-0 Premiership stalemate with promoted Livingston.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 27d

Catch up on Aberdeen pre-match press conference -

🔴Kevin Nisbet on funny way he found out about Dons interest (it WAS Dave Cormack in Romania🤣)
🔴Jimmy Thelin on new boys, need for win, Kristers Tobers' return and Alfie Dorrington Euro squad absence

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🔴LIVE: Aberdeen pre-match press conference ahead of return against Livingston at Pittodrie

Aberdeen's Livingston pre-match press conference: Kevin Nisbet on funny way he found out about Dons re-signing interest + Jimmy Thelin on new boys, need to win on Saturday, Kristers Tobers' return to ...

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 28d

Why Alfie Dorrington could STILL play in Conference League for Aberdeen after Uefa rule change🔓

🔴Follow my Aberdeen pre-match press conference live blog, ahead of return against Livingston at Pittodrie...

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · 29d

🆎🆕After a wait, Aberdeen fans should learn Jimmy Thelin's reasoning for leaving Alfie Dorrington out of his Conference League squad.

(Likely straightforward, whether you agree or disagree with the call, but will be interesting to hear...)

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ANALYSIS: Aberdeen fans will be keen to hear Jimmy Thelin's reasons behind Alfie Dorrington Conference League squad absence

After a bit of a wait, fans look set to learn why Dons boss Thelin left Tottenham loan defender Dorrington out of the Uefa Conference League squad.

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · Sep 10

ICYMI: KUSINI YENGI DEEP DIVE🆎🇦🇺

😠Ex-coach/pal says Aberdeen fans 'quite harsh very early' on 'direct forward with great trickery' - and he'll prove them wrong!

📖Story of Kusini/Tete Yengi's days at Adelaide Comets ahead of Dons v Livi face-off

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Ryan Cryle @ryancryle.bsky.social · Sep 9

🔴⚪️🇦🇺EXCLUSIVE on Aberdeen’s Kusini Yengi…

Spoke to two figures from one of Yengi’s first clubs, Adelaide Comets, about the Dons striker and brother Tete’s story (with a little dash of irritation at how quickly he’s been written off by some…)

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EXCLUSIVE: Aberdeen fans sent 'humble pie' Kusini Yengi warning from Australia - as we take deep dive into striker and Livingston attacker brother Tete's early days

The Press and Journal spoke to figures who met the duo at Adelaide Comets - the teenage Yengi brothers' club Down Under - ahead of a potential meeting for Aberdeen and Livingston this weekend.

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