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Aberdeen close in on new manager; announcement to be made before Rangers clash
Self-proclaimed “Rangers guy” Neil Warnock is a frontrunner for the Aberdeen manager’s job – and he could make his managerial debut with the Dons at Ibrox.
Reports earlier in the week had pointed to the legendary English coach, 75, as a potential solution until the end of the season after the sacking of Barry Robson.
And now those reports appear to be gathering pace with Neil Warnock potentially set to fulfil a career-long ambition to manage in Scotland.
Warnock has had 19 jobs in management across the English Football League, including at Sheffield United, Crystal Palace, & QPR, but has never taken charge of a side north of the border.
Neil Warnock to Aberdeen?
This is all according to the likes of local Aberdeen newspaper the Press & Journal, who claim an announcement on the Dons’ new boss will be made within the next 48 hours.
The report claims that the club are yet to decide on a final candidate for the role, but that Neil Warnock is a frontrunner having previously applied for the role at Pittodrie.
The suggestion is that Aberdeen will make an appointment on an interim basis until the end of the season, giving the club’s board the chance to ready a more long-term solution in the summer.
Neil Warnock – who is one of the most experienced and well-loved managers in British football – appears to be very much in the running for what would be an exciting appointment for Scottish football.
Whilst the Englishman’s stock isn’t at the highest it’s ever been, he remains a cult figure south of the border and there will be much attention on how Warnock performs in Scotland.
Rangers watch on amid Pittodrie manager upheaval
Aberdeen have been through a string of bad appointments since the sacking of Derek McInnes in 2021, with the failed Stephen Glass/Scott Brown dream team giving way to the calamitous reigns of Jim Goodwin and then Barry Robson.
The club find themselves 8th in the Scottish Premiership table although they earned a point off floundering Old Firm rivals Celtic in Aberdeen over the weekend to blow open the title race.
With one of their four cup finals to come against Rangers on Scottish Premiership duties this Tuesday evening, the potential appointment of Neil Warnock brings an added sense of excitement to the fixture.
Rangers have dropped five points to the Dons this season with anything but an Ibrox victory set to be viewed as a failure for Philippe Clement’s squad.
It’s just as well we might have a self-proclaimed bluenose in the opposition dugout then, isn’t it?
