Aberdeen is the latest to elect a leader after narrowing down its initial list to its candidates.
The Dons knew who they were looking for for Pittodrie’s canoe and stepped up discussions in an effort to get their new man in position this weekend.
Interviews with European and UK applicants concluded through the Dons board, and chairman Dave Cormack will now strike a deal to bring his favourite option to Pittodrie.
Cormack remains determined to have a new manager in position during the overseas break so he can work with the players next week ahead of the important Premiership clash with County Ross in Pittodrie.
Elfsborg coach Jimmy Thelin was among the candidates in the first round of interviews, but dropped out of the race to stay at his Swedish club.
With Sweden’s new season set to kick off next weekend, Thelin, who oversaw a primary recruitment campaign at the Allsvenkan runners-up, has opted to do so at her club.
The 46-year-old will be on the Elfsborg bench for the opening match of the IFK Varnarmo league on April 1.
Northern Ireland manager Michael O’Neill, who has also been linked with the job, did not hesitate to withdraw from the race last week but insisted he was focused on the upcoming games abroad.
Northern Ireland are in Bucharest and will face Romania on Friday before travelling to Hampden on Tuesday to face Scotland.
Peter Leven takes over as interim manager for the second time after former interim boss Neil Warnock cut short his stay at the club after 33 days.
Warnock had agreed to take charge of the remainder of the season when former manager Barry Robson was sacked on Jan. 31, but left after the 3-1 win over Kilmarnock in the Scottish Cup quarter-finals two weeks ago.
Warnock’s struggles in the league – he took two problems out of a conceivable 18 – led to Leven being brought back into the fold where he guided the team to their first Premiership win since January 2 with a 1-0 win at Motherwell last weekend.
Despite leading the Dons to a rare win in their last outing, the Dons are focused on putting their new manager in position as temporarily as possible to help the team move away from the risk of a relegation play-off.
Aberdeen will also have time to evaluate the team before the summer move window.
Once the new boss is in place, Dons’ next priority will be to appoint a technical director to join the club’s revamped football operations.
Following Robson’s sacking, the Dons announced they had hired a football consulting firm to conduct an independent investigation into their operations.
The BPTC, led by former Hamburg sporting director Bernhard Peters, is making structural adjustments within the Cormack Park and Pittodrie organisation.
As a result, Aberdeen is looking to expand its operations behind the scenes with the appointment of its own technical director as director of football, Steven Gunn.
But this procedure will begin after the arrival of the new director.
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