Aberdeen, Dundee United join race for Hibernian’s Scott Allan?

And manager Alan Stubbs insists that Allan’s decision to hand in a transfer request will not affect how he is treated at Easter Road, with the 23-year-old an integral part of his plans for the current campaign.

Asked about the state of the relationship between player and coach, Stubbs replied: “Mine is very good with Scott”.

Stubbs saw his side crash to a 6-2 defeat to Rangers on Saturday as they exited the Petrofac Training Cup to their Championship title rivals.

‘I believe in what we are all trying to achieve, and if there is one thing supporters can do to help me it is to get themselves along to Easter Road to support our team.

“Supporters would agree that they have seen a lot of positive changes over the past year, and I know there is a lot more to come”, head coach Stubbs said.

“We made decent progress last year, this season we all know we need to get promoted”. If we stick together and show our collective commitment, we will win. “I’m confident we can win”.

CEO Leeann Dempster was quoted as saying by the BBC: “Scott has every right to put in a transfer request and the club has every right to reject it“.

Police are investigating after Hibernian footballer Scott Allan became the target of online abuse.

Hibernian – relegated out of the Premiership last year – finished runners-up to Hearts in last season’s Championship race, but lost out to Rangers in the play-offs; Stubbs had taken over from Terry Butcher in June 2014.

Allan filed a transfer request after Rangers boss Mark Warburton said on Monday that he was not sure if the Ibrox club would make a third approach for the 23-year-old.

As the former Scotland under-21 internationalist was being sent the offensive tweets, his Hibs teammate Jason Cummings wrote: ‘Some people have got too much to say for themselves #KeyboardGangsters.’ Hibs midfielder Jordon Forster tweeted: ‘I can understand frustration but a few of this is just disgusting!’.