Dons focus on top six means delay on contracts

Aberdeen manager Craig Brown is content to delay telling which of his out-of-contract players he wants to keep.

Midfielders Isaac Osbourne, Stephen Hughes, Gavin Rae and Rob Milsom, defenders Gary Naysmith and Josh Magennis and forward Rory Fallon are free agents this summer but Brown knows leaving them in the dark can act as a motivation.

Rae has hinted he would be willing to delay plans to emigrate to Australia for another year, while Milsom, who missed almost all of 2012 due to a knee injury, hopes he can prove himself worthy of a new deal in the remaining games of the campaign.

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