Hearts and Rangers are planning overseas training trips while fellow Premiership contenders Celtic are on Scottish Cup semi-final duty on the weekend of 18 and 19 April. Leaders Hearts and Rangers are planning overseas training trips while fellow Premiership contenders Celtic are on Scottish Cup semi-final duty.
Aberdeen have announced they have "been officially given permission to enter formal talks" with the 51-year-old Northern Irishman about their managerial vacancy. Peter Leven has been in caretaker charge since Aberdeen sacked Jimmy Thelin in early January.
It's a question that will attract a lot of questions if I start answering. For me it's an irrelevant question. I know there's a lot of talk about us being in the title race now. In terms of being in a race, racing with other clubs there needs to be some conditions [budgets] that are more or less the same.
It is an exciting time to be here and an exciting time to be involved at the club so I am delighted, I understand the position I am in, how much of a privilege it is to play here, the demands here and I am personally really happy and excited to know my future is here.
Without a permanent manager and languishing in eighth place in the Scottish Premiership, they are 11 points off the top six never mind the European places. The club have churned through a manager, a sporting director, and plenty of players since the summer, fielding four debutants in defeat by Motherwell on Sunday. They face the same opposition in Wednesday's re-arranged Scottish Cup last-16 tie which now has the feel of a season-defining game.
Starting with the hosts, while Dundee FC might have found themselves at the heart of a shock three-match winning run on either side of opening the New Year, Steven Pressley's side are still firmly scrapping it out in the bottom-half of the Premiership table. Once again showing some glaring inconsistencies over the past month, the Dark Blues have recorded just a single point from their previous three Premiership appearances.
Hibernian have added tenacity and "pedigree" to their squad by signing wing-back Felix Passlack from Bochum on a deal until the summer of 2029, says head coach David Gray. The 27-year-old has arrived for an undisclosed fee and made 67 Bochum appearances after joining from Borussia Dortmund in 2023. His previous clubs include Hoffenheim, Norwich City and Fortuna Sittard, all loan spells from Dortmund.
Scrapping it out at the foot of the Premiership table, Stephen Robinson's men have a battle on their hands in the race to keep hold of their top-flight status in 2026. Putting in a toothless performance over the weekend as they eventually had to settle for a 0-0 stalemate at home against Dundee FC, the Paisley-based outfit have collected just three points from any of their previous seven Premiership appearances.
When Martin O'Neill replaced Brendan Rodgers in October, the Celtic ship was listing. When he returned for a second interim spell after Wilfried Nancy's tumultuous and brief reign, the ship was taking on water at an alarming rate. Celtic have needed a safe pair of hands and a figurehead to unite a fanbase in revolt twice this season. On both occasions they have turned to O'Neill to save them.
