Derek McInnes and his decade on the road that means there's more to Kilmarnock appointment than meets the eye
dailyrecord.co.ukIt's not gambling when you know you’re going to win. Which is why Derek McInnes walked out of his new office at Rugby Park on Tuesday night feeling as if he’s already hit a personal jackpot even if he’s agreed to drop back into a division which is some way beneath his own hard earned, managerial standing.
It’s probably fair to say that eight years spent in the coal face at Pittodrie, was supposed to pay out a bigger professional dividend than this.
He said no to Sunderland before agonising over an offer from Rangers which tugged hard on his heartstrings but never quite sat right inside his own head after a series of increasingly awkward conversations with Dave King.
Then the Scotland job came and went when McInnes was pipped at the post by Steve Clarke in a two horse race to the Hampden hotseat.
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