Craig Brown did his pre match media conference today ahead of the Scottish Cup tie against Queen of the South.

To watch the conference in full on Red TV please click here

 The manager broke the news that Fraser Fyvie wants to leave when his current contract expires.

"At no time has Fraser Fyvie mentioned money but he has said he would like to pursue his career in England. He has been honest about it and I don't think he would be disposed to stay in Scotland. I respect what he says; he wants to play at the highest level and that is in England. I feel it is a bit premature is my opinion but it is his decision.

"He has signalled that at the moment he wants to stay at Aberdeen until the end of his contract. I would predict he will sign a pre-contract six months from the end of the contract (which is in the summer) and leave in December."

The manager also rubbished the rumours that he was looking for £5million for Fraser.

"It was not an accurate quote. I said jokingly to one of the guys from the local newspaper that if Arsenal offered us £5million for him we might consider it. It was an obvious joke and of course it went in the local evening paper and the nationals picked it up in the morning."

The Manager then looked ahead to the game at Pittodrie tomorrow.

"Everybody is well warned there is a danger of a slip up so we have got to be extremely vigilant. The point I've made is that Queen of the South are above Ayr United in the league and Ayr United took Kilmarnock to extra time last week. We have to be very careful that we don't have the wrong attitude as that is a danger and that could beat us. We can't be complacent or slack just because we have done well in the league recently.

"You don't just turn up and win the cup game, anything but.

"We have to turn up and play positively and properly. Anything short of our best and we are in danger of an upset. We have prepared conscientiously and looked at the opposition on tape, we know them particularly well and we know Gus McPherson and Andy Millen.

"The main priority is to get into the last eight and then we can look ahead from there. I am not looking at the cup final or semi-final yet, we are looking at getting through to the quarter final.

"As for team news, Milsom is out for the season, Osbourne is still out, Pawlett is still out, Mawene is just making his way back as are one or two others, Anderson and Folly are still out and these are all good first team players. We are reduced a bit in numbers but I hope we are not reduced in quality as the quality of players we brought in during the last month is good. Rae is cup-tied and has a slight strain and there are concerns unfortunately for Danny Uchechi, who picked up a know in training, so he might not make it this week"