Aberdeen chief executive Alan Burrows wants the club to achieve a “consistency of success” under manager Jimmy Thelin.Since the Swede arrived from Elfsborg in the summer of last year, there has been a lot of talk from those within the club about it being a three-year plan.In his first season, Thelin guided the Dons to Scottish Cup glory and group stage European football, but after an electric league start they slumped badly, finishing fifth after matching champions Celtic in the early stages.That poor form carried into the start of this season, but Aberdeen have climbed into the top half of the Scottish Premiership after going unbeaten in their past six matches.”This is a football club that has to hold itself to a standard whereby we want to win trophies,” Burrows said after the club’s AGM on Monday. “We want compete at the top end of the table, we want to play in European competitions regularly, we have done that in year one, the drive is consistency and that is the part that we are really striving to achieve – consistent success on the field, rather than a peaks and troughs element.”Very few football clubs have linear success and there is always going to have to be resilience against bad moments, but what we are trying to build is consistency of success and that comes from consistency of recruitment, consistency of coaching, some stability within the club.”Thelin has assembled a big squad to deal with the challenges of having to juggle both domestic and Conference League commitments this term.Several of the young players that have been recruited have had very limited, if any, game time so far, but Burrows believes their time will come.”What we are trying to build is a progression plan when it comes to the player trading model,” he said. “When you sell a player you are not on the hunt to find somebody else, you have got people in the building.”There are often a lot of questions asked about [Kjartan Mar] Kjartansson, about [Kenan] Bilalovic , about [Mitchel] Frame and all these different players.”We will bring in players in different windows – some will perform a role immediately, some will look to perform a role at some point in the future.”
