The Aberdeen board has made its first moves in their managerial search.
The Dons hierarchy have made initial contact with some applicants while other targets have been reached out to independently – including Chris Wilder As Record Sport revealed last week, former Sheffield United manager Wilder would be interested in talking to the Dons and has since been given backing by huge sections of the Red Army.
Danny Cowley is also out of a job and was interviewed by the club previously before he pulled out after he landed the Portsmouth post. There have been domestic, English and European applicants as Aberdeen powerbrokers sift through a mountain of CVs . The list includes managers with English Premier League and Championship experience and others who have led clubs to European qualification. Former Poland manager Czeslaw Michniewicz has thrown his hat in the ring along with the likes of ex-Hibs boss John Hughes and Dwight Yorke.
The stock answer to applicants is Aberdeen will get back to them in due course if they want to take things to the next level. The Aberdeen directors are determined to get this appointment right after the failures of Stephen Glass and Jim Goodwin and have still to finalise their final short list.
It is still very early stages of the process and they want to leave no stone unturned to make sure they make the right choice. Barry Robson has been put in interim charge and that has given the directors more time to go through a full selection process.
Chairman Dave Cormack has now returned to America but will remain integral to the managerial search. It is one that Cormack knows is vital after having to hit the reset button on managers twice within the space of a year.
Goodwin was sacked after a horror run that ended with a 6-0 defeat at Hibs last month.
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