Why have Aberdeen suddenly moved to make St Mirren’s Stephen Robinson their new manager? Enough is enough seems to be the obvious answer. <\/p>\n
Saturday’s abject end to their Scottish Cup defence at Dunfermline marked the latest low in a 16-month downward spiral that even lifting that trophy last season cannot mask.<\/p>\n
Aberdeen have been going in one direction – the wrong one – for some time. <\/p>\n
After talking an age since Jimmy Thelin’s departure in January to flirt with options including Eirik Horneland and Sandro Schwarz, a sudden need for urgency appears to have engulfed Pittodrie.<\/p>\n
Under the influence of sporting director Lutz Pfannenstiel, all the signals were that a full-time appointment would come in the summer. Taking time to get the right person. Learning from previous errors. <\/p>\n
That notion appears to have been thrown out the window.<\/p>\n
Having announced they are in talks with Robinson – having met a release clause in his contract – it seems the dotting of i’s and crossing of t’s is all that stands between Aberdeen and the appointment of a new permanent manager.<\/p>\n
“For me, he was a candidate right from the start, hiding in plain sight,” Aberdeen legend Willie Miller told BBC Scotland.<\/p>\n
“I think it’ll be a surprise to most observers – fans included – that it has taken so long to identify someone that’s right under your nose.<\/p>\n
“If Stephen Robinson accepts the offer then, it’s a positive move.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why have Aberdeen suddenly moved to make St Mirren’s Stephen Robinson their new manager? Enough is enough seems…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-470200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}