FORMER Aberdeen defender Shay Logan appears to have brought his long-standing feud with ex-Celtic skipper Scott Brown to a close.

The pair clashed on numerous occasions on the pitch over the years before Loga departed on loan to Hearts for the second half of last season.

Brown has since swapped Parkhead for Pittodrie and Logan has moved on to Cove Rangers, but the full-back couldn't help himself when Brown was unveiled as a Dons player.

Replying to a post from the club of Brown wearing an Aberdeen strip, Logan teased: "You can't polish a turd."

However, the 33-year-old has buried the hatchet after admitting to the Daily Record that despite the duo's run-ins over the last few years, Brown is the type of personality that you want to have in your team.

"Let’s be serious, he’s not going to Rangers," Logan said of Brown's Celtic exit.

"The next biggest club outside those two? It’s probably Aberdeen, so why not? Stranger things have happened.

"I hope he does well for them and brings the same energy to Aberdeen as he did for Celtic.

"If he doesn’t, he’ll have people on his back.

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"The thing is with Scott Brown – a lot of people might hate him but I always used to say, you wouldn’t mind having a Brown in there, whether you like him or not.

"You see the type of player he is and teams will benefit from having someone like that. I hope that Aberdeen do benefit from it."

Logan added that former manager Derek McInnes' departure from Pittodrie played a part in his decision to end his seven-year association with the club - as did Aberdeen's decision to give youth a chance.

He explained: I understand sometimes your face doesn’t fit anymore and they want to go down a different route. It was a good experience for me and the only thing I would change was the way it ended at Aberdeen.

"I had a great time there and the best moments Aberdeen had for a long time, I was part of. It was a good experience for me and the only thing I would change was the way it ended.

"It wasn’t the last few months – I think I started three games the whole season, from someone who plays 36-38 games. Things happened that didn’t normally happen. Ronnie Hernandez was brought in out of nowhere.

"I didn’t play one game, then I’d play Rangers and Sporting Lisbon away. I was trusted in the big games, but the games you should win, I was left out. It’s just the way it is.

"I had a lot of talks with Derek McInnes – what a guy he is. For me, it came from over Derek’s head that it was going to be my last season.

"It’s a young man’s game and they wanted to bring Ronnie in and Calvin Ramsay into fruition. I understood it.

"From what I believe, yeah [it was the chairman’s decision]. I had such a good relationship with Derek and Tony. Derek always said, ‘as long as I’m at this club, you’ll be at this club’. Those were his words from day one and in fairness, I was."