“The preponderance of coaches coming forward want, for health reasons or otherwise, a fresh start in the summer,” added the chairman. “They want a full pre-season to get their methodology instilled.
“What I would say is that we had a shortlist of about four candidates and we narrowed that and some of these guys aren’t necessarily available to come and look at Aberdeen and look at what we have here.
“It’s important that we keep confidentiality because if candidates don’t want you to talk about them then we have to respect that.
“The situation with one of the candidates is that there’s a personal challenge, family-wise, that we have to respect.
“One I can talk about because he said it was OK to mention it is that visiting from yesterday through to the Celtic game is Sandro Schwarz. He’s here to check us out and vice versa, but he’s a candidate.”
Asked if German Schwarz, 47, could be appointed quickly if talks worked out, Cormack said: “That’s got to be determined.
“We could have hired a coach and put someone in place within two weeks – but would he have been a 10/10 fit?
“For me, it’s embarrassing that we’re having to go through my sixth permanent appointment and some in the Premiership have been through seven, eight or nine in that time. The average tenure is 1.2 years.
“We will take our time to get the right manager in place.”
Meanwhile, Darren Mowbray – the talent spotter who brought Bojan Miovski and Ylber Ramadani to Pittodrie – has been reappointed as Aberdeen’s head of recruitment.
The Englishman left in summer 2023 to join Southampton but now replaces Nuno de Almeida, who was head of recruitment under former boss Jimmy Thelin.