Aberdeen interim Barry Robson believes he is ready to become a boss in his own right. However, his former Celtic manager and Aberdeen legend Gordon Strachan has warned him that four decades

of knowledge won’t prepare him for his early days. The former Scotland star has already plied his trade and worked his way up the Pittodrie ranks and has now put himself firmly in the

equation to become their next boss. He has been put in interim charge of the Dons and will continue that job when he takes his squad to Celtic Park. Robson stated: “We all believe we are

ready and we all believe we can affect a team and try to get results and that is why we are in it. Of course, but if you ask any head coach or manager you improve every day and there is

Derek (McInnes) for years, as a first-team coach and learned bundles from him. "I took my own team with the development squad and tried to implement my own ideas and build up the model

at this football club That has kept me busy and I have done my pro-licence which has kept me busy. "People seem to think I have been sitting here doing nothing but it has been far from

that. I have been educating myself and doing other things in the background, visiting other clubs. I had the chance to go into management the day I retired but I decided to sit back and take

the route to sit back and learn first.” Robson has insisted, though, his focus hasn’t been on landing the Aberdeen job. He has been focused on finding a way to stop free-scoring Celtic.

Robson has been there as a Celtic player and even in the opposition ranks and is well aware of what it will take to get a positive result. Robson admitted: “When you see the array they’ve

got, obviously the finances differ between the two clubs. But that doesn’t mean to say you can’t compete or go down there and be positive and try and get a result for your club. “I’ve been a

player there, I’ve been a player going down and playing there, I’ve been a player for Celtic when we played against teams who were a lot financially bigger. I’ve been there in every way. I

know exactly what it all takes. As I said, we need to try and find a way to put on a good performance." Robson and assistant Steve Agnew have been able to use the last couple of weeks

to get their ideas across on the training park. "What you need to do is come in and try and get the best from the group," he stated. "You need to try and implement little

ideas to help and try and get results, because that’s what the fans want. "If you stay longer in the position, you can do all the other things – build a squad, a game idea, a

model." Aberdeen faces the challenge of trying to stop Celtic without two of his main defenders. Ross McCrorie is suspended and Liam Scales can’t play against his parent club. “It is no

secret we don't have our two centre backs,” Robson confirmed. “They both have speed which will be a big miss at Celtic Park. We have players who can come in and try to help us get a

result. It changes the way we approach it but hopefully we will be organised and hopefully we can get some sort of result.” _READ NEXT_