Aberdeen boss warns players – My way or the highway

Mark McGhee has warned his Aberdeen players to adapt to his methods or leave the club.

The Dons boss held hour-long crisis talks with his players after Saturday's Clydesdale Bank Premier League game at Falkirk, their seventh match without a win.

He revealed afterwards suggestions had been made to him by members of the squad about what could be done to arrest the decline.

McGhee is ready to adjust but said: "What I'm not prepared to do is compromise what I believe to be the right way to do things.

"So, if there's going to be any change at Aberdeen in the long run, it's going to be the players who are going to have to change or leave."

Reports suggested players were unhappy about the number of days they had off.

McGhee told BBC Scotland: "I'm prepared to do anything that gets us more consistent results.

"If that includes making certain adjustments to the way I work or what I do with them or when they get a day off or don't get a day off then of course I'm prepared to do that."

But he added: "They're either going to change to work the way I work or they're going to leave the football club and we'll find new players to come in and do it the way I want it done."