Aberdeen boss Mark McGhee has admitted he will deserve to be sacked if his proposed summer clear-out fails to turn the club around. He insists the financial constraints he is working under mean there are mitigating circumstances for the Dons slumping to eighth in the table.

But McGhee, who recently revealed as many as 10 players could leave Pittodrie this summer, acknowledges the buck will stop with him if the club find themselves in a similar position this time next year.

"I got the sack at Wolves, got the sack at Millwall, got the sack at Brighton - it's something managers get," McGhee told Scotland on Sunday.

"Now, in those circumstances, I got it after being successful first and then things changed and I had no problem with that.

"Were I to get the sack now, what can I do about it? What? I'd think, 'What was my part in that?' I'd find things, sure. Could have done this, could have done that. But, really, it's out of my hands. I don't have any fear that the board will buckle, but if it happens, it happens.

"I know for sure that in a year's time, if I've made the changes I want to make and the results are the same then I'll be down the road and I'll deserve it.

"No problems with that at all. But let's make the changes first." Former Dons striker McGhee, who was appointed last summer, added: "I don't have any regrets about taking this job. I've been frustrated by the way it's gone. I won't argue that it's not as good as I hoped it would be. I'm culpable as well. I'm not going to fudge that one. I know I've got to prove myself and that's what I'm in the process of doing."