Sir Alex Ferguson has written an open letter of due to Aberdeen for honouring him with a statue and making him visitor of honour towards Dundee United.
Tributes have been paid to the Dons biggest ever supervisor, who led them to European and home glory, final weekend.
He has responded by penning a emotional thanks to everybody at Aberdeen from the supporters, gamers and employees to his ex-players and colleagues.
He wrote: "To all of the supporters of Aberdeen F.C,
“It will be remiss of me to not acknowledge the superb reception you afforded me and my spouse final weekend. To be trustworthy it was fairly humbling, and I actually discovered it troublesome to take all of it in.
“However now, on reflection, I can say it was a incredible event that introduced again some great reminiscences of a golden interval in all our lives.
“I cherished my time at Aberdeen, a incredible membership from the Chairman Dick Donald, the administrators Chris Anderson and Ian Donald together with a fantastic employees in my great P.A. Barbara Prepare dinner and our secretary Ian Taggart, by means of to the cooks Bella and Peggy and the pensioners who saved Pittodrie immaculate.
“On the soccer aspect, Teddy Scott was an incredible man who sacrificed his complete life to the membership.
“My assistant supervisor once I first arrived was Pat Stanton, an excellent right-hand man after we received my first league title in 1980. Pat was adopted by the irrepressible Archie Knox, a person pushed to achieve all the things I might presumably ask of him.
“The place was additionally held by Willie Garner, who did a advantageous job, and it was a pleasure to work with two advantageous professionals in Physician Catto and our physiotherapist Roland Arnott.
“Our two youth coaches, Bobby Clark and Lenny Taylor, whose contribution ensured that Aberdeen developed an inventory of native gamers that can in all probability by no means be matched.
“A gaggle of remarkable younger males that included Cooper, Simpson, Hewitt, Black, Gunn, Watson, Mitchell, Falconer and Robertson. I have to pay particular reward to Bobby who is likely one of the most interesting males I've come throughout and an enormous determine within the historical past of the soccer membership.
“We additionally had two wonderful scouts in Bobby Calder and Jim Carswell who gave lengthy service to the membership and delivered a variety of advantageous gamers to the membership.
“Lastly, the gamers! It was nice to see my captain Willie Miller, among the finest penalty field defenders of all time, to listen to Gordon Strachan and Neil Simpson converse, and seeing Stuart Kennedy holding court docket with the gamers was one thing to behold! I cherished assembly up with all of them once more.
“The whole lot I spoke about on the day gave us a basis which made it simple for me to do my job.
“However, on the finish of the day, that platform wanted a help, and it will have been unattainable for us to realize what we did with out your help. I needed to take this chance to thank each considered one of you.
“Properly achieved!”