'Cormack fronted up but Dons are drifting'

Chairman Dave Cormack "deserves credit" for communicating with supporters but managerless Aberdeen are "drifting".

That's the view of Michael Grant - Scottish football correspondent for The Times - who sat down with Cormack this week to update supporters on the club's manager search.

"I think he deserves credit for speaking because he gets accused of lacking transparency, the club gets accused of that, and the chairman has fronted up," Grant told the BBC's Scottish Football Podcast.

"The answers probably are not going to please a lot of supporters because there still isn't clarity on the manager. He's tried to explain why there's delays in it, but the bottom line is they still don't have a manager.

"The recruitment has been really poor for Aberdeen this season and I think they know that."

Grant suggested the return of Darren Mowbray as head of recruitment is a positive in a dismal season for the Pittodrie club, who languish eighth in the Premiership before tonight's visit of Celtic.

"Darren Mowbray is the guy who found Bojan Miovski and Ylber Ramadani and Shayden Morris and Duk and all of these guys delivered for the club and also delivered a transfer fee, a really significant one in Miovski's case," he said.

"I think they feel Mowbray has been the best of a number of heads of recruitment they've had recently and he's back. So looking forward to the summer and future windows that might be encouraging.

"But for the here and now they still look like a club or a team at least that is kind of drifting."