Jimmy Thelin confirms Aberdeen contract talks ongoing with Shayden Morris and other Scottish Cup final heroes
Jimmy Thelin has confirmed that contract talks are ongoing with Shayden Morris and several others from Aberdeen 's Scottish Cup-winning squad.
The fans' favourite has been the subject of several failed bids from Luton Town.
The winger, 23, is out-of-contract at the end of the season and the Dons are trying to extend that deal.
The likes of captain Graeme Shinnie, Dante Polvara and Ester Sokler are others who are now in the final year of their Pittodrie contracts.
Thelin admitted: 'I think it's a question for Steven (Gunn, Aberdeen's director of football), but we have on-going talks with a lot of players. Let's see.'
The Swede knows that when you are successful and you have good players, like Morris, then there is going to be interest. Thelin has insisted he can't worry about what he cannot impact.
It is about working with what he has, while he has it and trying to improve his players, his squad, his staff and himself.
Thelin acknowledged: 'I think we always have dialogue with all our players and when the time is right, the time is right.
'I don't go into specific players, but of course we have good players and other clubs have eyes on our players also. That's the reality we live in.
'But as long as you're a player, a manager, you have to always focus where you are.
'Otherwise, you stop growing and performing.
'So it's important to always stay in the moment and then what happens, after you're controlling one way, that will happen.
'But when you're a player or a manager, you have to focus where you are.'
Aberdeen's model is and has been for several years based on a player trading model. They regularly sell on talent and that has been the case in recent years from Scott McKenna to the likes of Calvin Ramsay, Lewis Ferguson, Bojan Miovski, Ross McCrorie and Ylber Ramadani.
This summer has been no different. Another cup hero in Pape Gueye has since been sold to Turkish side Kasimpasa earlier this month. Thelin knows others could go before the close of the window and it is about being proactive rather than being reactive.
The Aberdeen manager, when asked about more out-goings, answered: 'No, I think it's difficult to speculate. I think we're taking it day by day now, week by week and the window is still one month away from closing.
'So that's why it's so difficult to see what's going to happen in the future. We have to focus on now.
"We have a competitive game on Sunday and then the rest of the thing is going on in the background. The window is open, so you never know if someone comes in for a player or if you need to rebalance your squad or whatever.
'But we have to focus right now. As long as the window is open, it's on-going work.
'Even when the window is closed, the recruitment department keeps working to the next window. I think when everybody's aligned, they're aligned then things happen.'
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