Neil Warnock has revealed his burning ambition to break the Celtic and Rangers duopoly by leading Hearts or Hibs to the top of Scottish football.
The Cardiff City boss insists it would've been a dream to take charge of one of the Edinburgh neighbours.
The 70-year-old is set to retire at the end of the season but has admitted managing in Scotland has always appealed to him.
Warnock, who owns a house in Dunoon, opened up on his desire to lead an Aberdeen-style revolution in the capital, overtaking the Glasgow giants to make Hearts or Hibs the biggest club in the country.
He told the Edinburgh Evening News : "I’ve always fancied one of them – Hibs and Hearts.
"It appeals to me up there with them being neighbours.
“No disrespect to the big two but I’ve always been an underdog and I’ve always thought, ‘I wish I could get a club up there and get a team to rival Celtic and Rangers.’
“That’s how it used to be. Rangers haven’t been the force they were in recent years but I look back at what Aberdeen did all those years ago. It was unheard of, wasn’t it?
“It would be nice to get something like that going. You’d have to do it on team spirit and togetherness and all that because the money isn’t there for Hearts and Hibs to compete with the two Glasgow clubs, really.”
