By Scott Burns

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Under-fire Jimmy Thelin has insisted he is going nowhere and when he does leave Aberdeen he wants to make sure it is on a high. The pressure has been cranked up on the Dons boss just months after he delivered the Scottish Cup . Aberdeen sit bottom of the table with one point and no goals this season and have already crashed out of the Europa League and the Premier Sports Cup to Motherwell at the weekend. Thelin stated: “You always want to leave a club in a good moment and that’s why I’m talking about responsibility. “We have worked really hard now together with everybody else to make this turnaround of the squad and building for the future. “Of course, we are expecting some more points and a little bit better rhythm in the game so far. “So now we have to take this responsibility and get this team going in the right direction. “That’s the way we want. I never thought about anything else. “My determination is the same, even if you’re winning a cup or losing some games now. “You want to always do your best and you want to get this team going because that’s the responsibility you have signed for – to take a big responsibility for this team and this club. “Nothing has changed there. “The passion is 100 percent, whatever the noise. “That’s why I think it’s so important to keep the focus on the right things.” The Swede has also stated that he still has the full backing of chairman Dave Cormack and chief executive Alan Burrows. “Football is a sport of results, everybody knows that. “Still we have everybody on the same page. “I have the same dialogue with the CEO Alan (Burrows) and the chairman everyday. “Nothing has changed in our dynamic. “It is still the same focus, how can we do better? We have to try again, where do we need to improve, where do we need to think in the future and what can we adjust right now? “That is my job as a manager. “I need to adjust some parts so we can get the results we need to keep improving.” Thelin knows the importance of strong relationships with those above him, but also knows they can be quickly broken if results aren’t delivered on the park. He added: “I think when it’s good times we have more or less daily contact, when it’s bad times we have more or less the same daily contact. “I think there always has to be a relationship in these situations but everybody knows the rules anyway. “If you are a manager and you can’t turn things around in the long term, we know what’s going to happen. “But right now there are no signals about that at all. “We talk honestly about exactly what we have to improve. “We have a strong belief that we can turn this around. “We see small improvements, we have a clear thing that we need to do to turn this around.” The manager held a candid dressing room meeting with his players after the Motherwell defeat and they all know what is expected. Thelin has mixed his starting XIs up but the one constant, apart from the cup final, has been his 4-2-3-1 formation. A lot of fans feel he needs to change that up. Thelin’s response was: “I think it can be a solution in the future when you have time to train on things. “I think tactics have changed. “We’re trying to find the right balance. It can be how you go with the full-back, how you stay with the central midfielder, how you stay with one or two midfielders, etc? “Right now we focus on the balance of the team. “Then you can do it with systems, you can do it with the qualities of the players you have. Are they matching for other systems or not? How can you keep the balance better without changing the system? Can you do something else? “So you have to look at the squad you have and the strength and the weakness we have in the squad. “How can we hide the weakness we have in a better way with our balance? “How can we adjust some parts to get more strength off some players that we have? “So that’s what we focus on right now.”