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That is when Jimmy Calderwood will have to have signed, sealed and delivered the promised striker and defender through the Pittodrie players' entrance. It is clear that the Dons' management team have been hunting high and low for players during summer with many trialists wheeled in, desperate for the club to 'take on me'. But none of them made Calderwood say "A-ha! Maybe maybe you are the one!" And with the likes of Lee Miller and Kris Boyd, it has been a case of 'I've been losing you'.
Eighties Norwegian pop bands aside, the Jimmys were spotted in Belfast last week, possibly checking out young striker Peter Thomson. There have been rumours of other strikers being linked to the Dons, but as far as defenders go it seems that the approaching deadline will see the Danny Griffin story come to a conclusion one way or the other.
Last week, Jimmy Calderwood told BBC Sport: "He has to prove his fitness, but I have not heard from him for a couple of weeks. And I don't think he has been playing for Stockport, so I think it is looking like he won't make the deadline."
However, Griffin believes that he will be fit for a comeback from a knee injury in a fortnight. What he doesn't know is whether that will be for Stockport or for Aberdeen, as he told the Manchester Evening News: "The situation is that a move might happen, it might not. At the minute I'm still a Stockport County player, after transfer deadline day if that is still the case I'll continue to give 110 per cent to this football club.
"I've been doing a lot of running with (Stockport physio) Rodge Wylde and I noticed in Saturday's match programme that he thinks I could be just 10 days away from full-time training. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but at the same time I'm also taking each day as it comes.