Barry Robson set for crunch Aberdeen job talks with Alan Burrows as interim boss insists 'I want to be a manager'

Aberdeen interim Barry Robson will meet with Alan Burrows this week and will make it clear he wants to be a manager in his own right.

New CEO Burrows, who started on Monday, has been given power in the managerial search, with chairman Dave Cormack back in America recovering from open heart surgery. Robson has stepped up from Under-18 coach to halt the slide and guided them back into the top six. He’s done his coaching badges, learned his trade and wants the chance to take Dons back into the European fight, with Saturday’s 1-0 win over Livingston ‘just the start’ for Robson’s reign.

But then, that all depends on what direction the new Pittodrie powerbroker wants to take. The 44-year-old former Scotland midfielder made his pitch for the permanent role, as he said: “I want to be a manager one day. I will be a manager one day, whether it’s here or somewhere else, nobody knows. I like winning games and I don’t like losing.”

Aberdeen might be back in the top six but Robson has insisted his team haven’t achieved anything yet. He said: “We’re not getting carried away. I look at the players and I’m frustrated because I want so much more. I know they have so much more. I went home after the game and I was thinking and thinking, I just want more. I see it in training every day. We haven’t achieved anything yet. We’re nowhere near where we want to be. We have a big game against Dundee United where we will need to do well again.”

Robson has brought stability and structure to a side that had simply disintegrated in the final weeks of Jim Goodwin’s stay. There is also a real steel there as they showed by going toe-to-toe with Livingston on a difficult Pittodrie surface. Robson believes it’s the result of hard work on the training