Lee Sharp insists natural born finisher Bojan Miovski has the mark of Old Firm quality and backed the hitman to continue to rival the Premiership's top marksmen. The Aberdeen assistant boss believes the 23-year-old summer recruit from MTK Budapest has a touch of class which is hard to find and seven goals from his last eight outings has carried him to second spot in the scoring chart alongside Kyogo and one strike below Antonio Colak at Rangers.
A £535,000 fee now looks like a bargain for the North Macedonian international who has himself admitted his ambition is to finish top scorer in the top-flight after bagging a double in Aberdeen's 4-1 weekend triumph over Kilmarnock. Sharp is in no doubt that Miovski's striking instincts are of the highest calibre. He said: "I believe Bojan is top drawer and can be a really big player for Aberdeen this season.
"You want him to keep going and to continue scoring goals and I think the way we play suits him in terms of the amount of chances we create. I honestly believe there is so much more to come from him and he's scored seven goals in eight games so there aren't many players outside of the Old Firm who will start a season like that.
"As a player I didn't play with anyone like him, he's just got something different. I would class him as the type of player you would see with the Old Firm. He has that kind of quality when it comes to a basic striker's instinct. Very few players in the Premiership will score that amount of goals in such a short space of time. Adam Rooney was probably the last Aberdeen player to be as consistent in terms of goal return.
"All of the players coming to this club appreciate the expectation level increases. That's what happens at a massive club and the expectation level rises with that. They all know that and they buy into that but that goes down to the recruitment as well. It's about recruiting the right type of players who all know what they're coming into and appreciate what our expectations of them are and what we are looking for. Bojan for example is a good personality and a good type."
Sharp also believes Miovski's display against Killie highlighted exactly why the Dons were so keen to bring him to Pittodrie. He said: "He's a proper goalscorer, he sniffs things out around the opposition box and he's alive to things that some players aren't.
"The runs he makes are great, he bends them and goes in between defenders and is always looking for the right avenue to goal. If you watch his second goal on Saturday it was typical of him, the ball is played into the six-yard box, his first effort is blocked by a defender and he's alive to the next one.
"He showed his natural instinct by lifting it over the defender who could have quite easily blocked his second attempt. It's all about movement and that natural instinct to get into the right areas. What you need to remember as he's still only young, having just turned 23. He still has a bit of development and learning to do."
It's a testament to the recruitment at Aberdeen that a host of summer signings have hit the ground running with Ylber Ramadani also brought in from Budapest and Sharp
He said: "He's settled so quickly but it probably helped him that we had brought in a lot of players in the summer. They were all getting to know one another. There had been an issue with his visa which took a bit of time to come through and Hibs had the same carry-on with a few of their players.
"You could tell right away he had quality, we looked at him more closely, how he trained and saw his work ethic. His touch and his movement shines through when we are playing small sided games and then we played St Johnstone in a bounce game where he scored.
"It was a typical striker's finish, it was one touch and then past the keeper so right away we thought he had something about him which was a bit different. The first day he came in he was bubbly and chatty, he integrated himself pretty much right away."
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