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Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes is the latest name to be linked to the managerial vacancy at Stoke City.

The Daily Record has gone strong on 48 year-old McInnes, Aberdeen manager since 2013 and who has previously managed in this country with Bristol City between Ocotber 2011 and January 2013.

The Record reports: "Record Sport understands the name of the Aberdeen boss has been placed on a short list of targets by the relegation haunted Championship club after the sacking of Nathan Jones last week.

"And sources in the Potteries say City are now ready to make an official approach to Pittodrie to ask chairman Stewart Milne for permission to hold discussions with the 48-year-old as they close in on the man they believe can keep the club in England’s second tier.

"Reports yesterday linked Steve Clarke to the role but we believe the Scotland manager - who piped McInnes to the hot seat at Hampden earlier this year - has not made it onto the final list.

"But the interest in McInnes was leaked out of the bet365 Stadium yesterday afternoon - and immediately placed Aberdeen’s hierarchy on a state of red alert.

"The Dons would stand to pocket a small fortune if Stoke did chose to trigger a release clause for McInnes who put pen to paper on a lucrative new contract in the North East shortly after Clarke was confirmed as Alex McCleish's replacement."

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