McGhee was a popular player during a six-year spell, during which Aberdeen won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the European Super Cup.

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Hamburg had provided the opposition to the Dons in the 1984 European Super Cup final and lost out 2-0 on aggregate to the Scots.

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It also gets shared rights to the final and European Super Cup, which pits the Champions League winner against the holder of the Uefa Cup.

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In 1989, he was an aspiring Barca midfielder when the then 22-year-old suffered a serious knee against Milan in the European Super Cup - an injury that would bring his career to a premature end four years later.

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As well as the Champions League, the former club captain has also won the Uefa Cup during his time on Merseyside, as well winning the European Super Cup in 2001 and 2005, the FA Cup in 2001 and 2006 and League Cup in 2001 and 2003.

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An Ajax debutant at 18, he won three domestic titles, the European Cup, Super Cup and World Club Cup while in Amsterdam before a short and injury-plagued spell with Milan.

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