LET BYE DONS BE BYGONES

Declan is more than happy to work with Goodwin again

- SCOTT BURNS

DECLAN GALLAGHER admitted Jim Goodwin apologised for showing him the door at Aberdeen before he began his sales pitch to get him to Dundee United. 

The Irishman told him he was too hasty in his last post, selling the former Scotland international to St Mirren last summer.

Gallagher felt he was good enough to play at Pittodrie but acknowledged he didn’t have the best of times in the Granite City. The fact that Goodwin has come back in to sign him for United means they will work together at the second time of asking.

And Gallagher said: “I worked with him when he first came into Aberdeen and he was great to work with.

“He is really honest – a straight-shooter – and tells it how it is.

“I know I didn’t have the greatest of seasons at Aberdeen.

“I can hold my hands up to that and I actually said that to him on the phone.