While Pfannenstiel would not be drawn on names, he suggested for the eventual appointee “it would be a good benefit if there is knowledge of Scottish football – that is not everything but definitely a positive”.
“Will he be Scottish? Will he be German? Will he be from Mars or from any other planet? I can’t tell you that right now,” Pfannenstiel said.
“We just want to have the right guy who makes Aberdeen better.
“There are some teams at the moment who play some beautiful football in the Scottish Premiership, who have a foreign coach who had never worked in Scotland before and that doesn’t always mean that foreigners don’t work in Aberdeen or don’t work anywhere else.
“It is about playing style, it is about the philosophy, how do you want to play football? But it is also about personality. In Scottish football we have to have a person who motivates you, who pushes you.
“We have a lot of young players, I think they need that guidance to have a guy with a certain experience but also with a certain fire and that is the profile which I have clearly in my head.”
