Hearts captain Craig Gordon admits he would love to see his old boss Roy Keane take over at Hibs.
The Irishman took the keeper to Sunderland for a record £9 million in 2007 and he enjoyed working under him.
After having just won promotion from the Championship, the Manchester United legend managed to keep the Mackems in the top flight the following season.
He's now being linked with the Hibees vacancy 11 years after his last spell as the main man at Ipswich Town.
And despite being on the opposite side of the Edinburgh divide, Gordon is up for the excitement the appointment would bring.
He said: “It’d be brilliant for Scottish football in terms of the stature and press attention that he would bring not only to Hibs, but to Edinburgh as well.
“He could be a very good manager. He proved that early on at Sunderland when he got them promoted and kept them in the league.
“You look where Sunderland are now. Maybe people didn’t think it was a huge achievement at the time but it actually was.
“So, yeah, I would love it, let’s see if it happens.
“It’s a huge name, and I would love to see it. It would be pretty special for both Edinburgh clubs if he was there.”
Some doubts have been raised over Keane's suitability for the role, given he appears to be very different from Shaun Maloney and what the club said they wanted at that time.
Gordon has no qualms about that.
"There’s different ways to do it," he insisted. "You can be a hands-on coach, you can be a manager and let the other people do the coaching, there’s definitely different styles out there.
“I don’t think that would really make much of a difference.
“He would maybe need to have a bigger team around him than was the case for everybody back 15 years ago or whatever.
“I don’t see that being a big problem at all really, he would do well. Without a doubt. I think he could be a good manager, I really do.
“There’s obviously been a couple of clubs where it hasn’t worked out for him.
“But certainly at Sunderland the spirit in that team to stay in that league, the amount of late goals we got to get a draw or get a win that scraped us by to get enough points to stay in the league was a huge achievement.
“I’ve got nothing but good things to say. I would love it if he came to Edinburgh, it would be great.”
