FORMER Rangers boss Dick Advocaat has told Hearts he's too good for a job at Tynecastle.

The South Korea coach says he will never manage in Scotland again after four years at Ibrox.

Advocaat was linked with the Hearts job last summer but has told Vladimir Romanov not to bother making an approach after the World Cup.

He said: "If you work for Rangers or Celtic you can't work for Hearts - anyway, I'm too good for them."

The Jambos are inching closer to confirming Valdas Ivanauskas as head coach, at least for the Champions League qualifiers.

Ivanauskas said: "I know which position Vladimir wants me in but we're not quite 100 per cent ready yet.

"I'll know more in 10 or 12 days. Maybe then I will be head coach."

Advocaat also revealed his biggest Ibrox regret - he didn't stay longer as Rangers boss.

The former Dutch national coach is in Scotland this week for a World Cup training camp at Murray Park with South Korea.

It is the first time he has returned to Glasgow on football business since he left Rangers as director of football in the summer of 2002.

Advocaat, 58, accepted a move upstairs at Ibrox after helping appoint Alex McLeish as his successor in December 2001.

Rangers had entered a period of financial downsizing and Celtic boss Martin O'Neill had also emerged to transform Parkhead into the power base of the Scottish game.

The Little General wishes he had stayed longer and finished the job he had started with his close friend David Murray.

Advocaat said: "David stepped back as chairman and we thought - I thought - it was better to bring in another boss.

"I regret becoming director of football but, because of circumstances at the time, I felt I had to take the job.

"I should have gone on as manager, not as director, and sometimes I have regrets about that.

"I'm not a director, I'm a man who works with players but there were things to consider.

"The media had started destroying me, David was stepping down as chairman and I was also very, very tired.

"But my relationship with Rangers is still there. Every time I come back here I feel nothing but pride and in that way I'm still very much a blue.

"Once a Ranger, always a Ranger.

"I love this club. It's my club and I still feel that, to be honest."

Advocaat denies the success of O'Neill scared him off and praised McLeish for the impact he has made in the last four-and-a-half years.

He added: "I'm not scared of anyone in the world as a coach, not at all.

"I think Alex handled the pressure of being Rangers boss very well.

"But McLeish did a great job, definitely, because he won more prizes than our well-respected friend O'Neill."

Taken from the Daily Record