The Scottish Football Association has requested talks with Michael O’Neill and Sunderland are also interested. The USA are also understood to want to speak to O’Neill about taking charge of their international side – a highly lucrative post. The 48-year-old has always been Scotland’s favoured candidate – with Aberdeen’s Derek McInnes also highly regarded – but the matter was complicated by Northern Ireland’s World Cup qualifying progress. The Scottish FA has been irked by the O’Neill approach becoming public, with that inevitably increasing pressure on the association to secure its man. O’Neill will be aware McInnes turned down Sunderland in the summer, since which time their troubles intensified under Simon Grayson.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2017 15:30 UTC