Roos will wait for talks with Thelin

Aberdeen goalkeeper Kelle Roos says he has been waiting for the appointment of a new manager before making a decision on his Pittodrie future.

Dutch stopper Roos is out of contract at the end of the season and his future remains up in the air.

The 31-year-old revealed he could wait until the summer to make a decision as that is when he expects to have talks with new manager Jimmy Thelin.

Elfsborg boss Thelin will start his Pittodrie career on June 3 having agreed a three-year deal.

The 46-year-old will remain at Elfsborg until the Swedish top flight enters a summer break.

Thelin was secured as manager more than two months after the Pittodrie board sacked Barry Robson on January 31.

Roos says he was waiting on clarity regarding the managerial situation before making any final call on his future. Now he hopes to have talks with Thelin in the summer and accepts the new boss “will see what players suit” his preferred style.

On his contract situation, Roos said: “It is still open.

“In this sense, I think everybody has been waiting for the appointment of the new manager.

“He is going to have a look at things.

“He will come with ideas and plans on how he wants us to play in the future.

“And he is going to see what players suit and who don’t which is all very normal.

“We will find out soon enough.

“I would love to speak to him regardless.

“Let’s not rush.” Aberdeen are understood to have looked at alternative options as Roos considers his future, including a potential summer move for Celtic keeper Benjamin Siegrist.

Swiss keeper Siegrist, 32, came to prominence at Dundee United where he played from 2018 to 2022.

Siegrist signed for Celtic in 2022 and has two years left with the Parkhead club.

Although Aberdeen’s search for a new manager only concluded last week, new head of recruitment Chris Badlan and director of football Steven Gunn continue to work on potential player targets for the summer.

Thelin will bring Elfsborg assistants Christer Persson and Emir Bajrami with him to Aberdeen in the summer.

Roos said: “I have heard that he (Thelin) will pay a lot of attention to us as a group.

“That will give him ideas of what he likes and what he doesn’t.

“First we have to make sure we are doing all the right things here.

“We can go from there in the summer.”

Aberdeen will have to rally from the bitter disappointment of losing the Scottish Cup semi-final to Celtic on penalties.

The Reds were edged out 6-5 in the shoot-out having drawn 3-3 after extra-time.

Following that Hampden heartache the Reds will now finish the campaign in the Premiership bottom six.

The first post-split fixture is at home to Motherwell on Saturday.

Despite a resurgence in form under interim boss Peter Leven, the threat of being dragged into a relegation play-off has not yet been completely extinguished.

Aberdeen are five points clear of Ross County, who occupy the relegation playoff spot, with five games remaining.

The Dons’ final game of the season is away to Ross County on May 19.

Roos has called for Aberdeen to win the first four post-split games to kill off any chance of the trip to Ross County being a relegation play-off shoot-out.

He is determined to finish the campaign on a winning note – and not only because new boss Thelin is monitoring the games from Sweden.

Roos said: “It is simple. “The first four (post-split games), we have to make sure we win them and finish the season strong.

“That has nothing to do with the new manager coming, but it is about us, as a group.

“We need to make sure we finish things in the right way.

“To build to where we want to be.

“Realistically, the place where we are just now is not the place where we want to be competing.

“We want to prove that is the case.”

“That has nothing to do with the new manager coming, it is about us

Kelle Roos is out of contract at the end of the season.