Former Middlesbrough and Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock has revealed he applied to manage Aberdeen.
The 73-year-old, who was sacked by Boro last month, was asked whether he would be interested in the Hibernian job following the departure of manager Jack Ross.
Ross has left the Easter Road club just over a week before he was due to lead them out in the Scottish League Cup final against Celtic at Hampden.
Warnock, speaking on TalkSport, said he would have relished the chance to manage a club in Scotland but didn’t get any response to an application to take charge at Pittodrie.
He said: “I would have loved to, honestly. I applied for the Aberdeen job a few years ago and never even got a letter back.
“I was going to go to Hearts at one stage, or I thought I was, and then the Latvian guy came in (referring to Lithuanian owner Vladimir Romanov).
“Edinburgh’s lovely, Glasgow and Edinburgh. I am a Rangers man.
“My mate who’s a season ticket holder up there gets me up to the games up there and I’ve never seen hospitality like it. It’s a special place.
“When you walk from the car park and look up at the ground, you think ‘wow’.”
In 2019, Warnock spoke about his desire to manager Hearts or Hibs.
He said: ““I’ve always fancied one of them – Hibs and Hearts.
“It appeals to me up there with them being neighbours.
“No disrespect to the big two but I’ve always been an underdog and I’ve always thought: ‘I wish I could get a club up there and get a team to rival Celtic and Rangers.’
“That’s how it used to be. Rangers haven’t been the force they were in recent years but I look back at what Aberdeen did all those years ago. It was unheard of, wasn’t it?”
Warnock has enjoyed a lengthy career in football management which has also included spells at Sheffield United, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds United and Crystal Palace.
