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By Clive Lindsay
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Motherwell have turned to former Scotland boss Craig Brown following the sacking of Jim Gannon for "repeatedly" refusing to sign a contract.
The Scottish Premier League club and 69-year-old Brown have both confirmed that they held talks hours after Gannon's departure was announced.
"They are hoping to reach some kind of agreement with him tomorrow," a club spokesman said on Tuesday evening.
"They were looking to see who was available on an interim basis."
Brown is keen to have Archie Knox, who spent three years as his assistant with Scotland, as his number two at Fir Park.
But that will be the subject of further talks between Brown and the club on Tuesday.
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Relations between the manager, staff and directors deteriorated to the extent that the situation became untenable
Motherwell chairman John Boyle
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Brown, who began his managerial career with Clyde, spent eight years as Scotland's national coach but has been out of management since ending a two-year spell with Preston North End in 2004.
Former Aberdeen, Everton, Manchester United and Rangers assistant Knox had a more recent spell as a manager, being caretaker at Bolton Wanderers after Sammy Lee's departure in 2007.
The former Scotland Under-21 manager was most recently first-team coach at Blackburn Rovers under Paul Ince.
Motherwell's approach for Brown followed the surprise departure of Gannon, after which they initially said that head of youth Gordon Young would take charge of the team for Wednesday's visit to Tynecastle to face Hearts.
Gannon had been in charge of Motherwell for only six months and the club stressed that the decision had nothing to do with the team having failed to record a win in their last six league games.
"Generally, results on the field have been satisfactory since Jim Gannon was appointed and the board wishes to make it clear that today's decision is not related in any way whatsoever to recent results," chairman John Boyle said in a statement.
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"Over the past couple of months, it has become abundantly clear that the manager was not fully committed to the club and, despite our best efforts, he repeatedly refused to sign a contract.
"Relations between the manager, staff and directors deteriorated to the extent that the situation became untenable."
Former Aberdeen and Dunfermline manager Jimmy Calderwood, along with John Robertson, the former Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Hearts, Livingston and Derry City boss, had been among those immediately linked with the job at Fir Park.
However, Motherwell have instead turned to another unemployed former manager who has been recently working in the media but who had his most successful spell in international football nearly a decade ago.
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