The latest manager to express an interest in succeeding George Burley is a Dutchman who was once considered Holland’s next great coaching
protege.

Aad de Mos has reportedly submitted his cv to the SFA and it will make for impressive reading.

The 62-year-old first emerged as a radical and deep thinker of the game at Ajax, where he rose to a coaching position alongside manager Leo Beenhakker in the early 1980s. After five years in Amsterdam, he left to manage KV Mechelen, and led the Belgians to European Cup-Winners’ Cup success in 1988.

With subsequent spells at Anderlecht, PSV Eindhoven, Werder Bremen and Sporting
Gijon, he can rely upon an accomplished pedigree as well as a brief time in charge of the United Arab Emirates.

His last job was at Vitesse Arnhem and ended abruptly in April last year, but Jimmy Calderwood remembers him as an innovative and forthright coach from his own time in Holland, as a player and a manager.

“He’s different, he has a lot of good ideas about the game,” said the former Aberdeen
manager. “I suppose he’s typical
of the Dutch, they’re very 
confident in their own ability. He was a larger-than-life character, his ideas went against the grain a bit. He was the rising star, but has maybe made some wrong career choices since then.”

Calderwood, who himself would relish the opportunity to take charge of Scotland, believes that De Mos has the experience and the qualities to make a success of the role, but his age and his time out of the game might count against him.

“He’s a strong-minded guy and he’s got some cv,” Calderwood added. “He’s very colourful. and good company. It just depends on the profile [the SFA] want, but he had a lot of success very early in his career.”