Dundee chief executive Peter Marr is expected to have his long-awaited showdown talks with manager Ivano Bonetti this week.

There has been speculation that Bonetti wants to leave Dundee as his wife is expecting a baby and is not keen to live in Scotland.

BBC Scotland believes that he has now proposed that he himself becomes general manager and hands over the coaching reigns to his brother Dario.

But the club will not entertain such an arrangement and, as previously disclosed, it is believed that they are likely to bring Jim Duffy back to Dens Park should Bonetti fail to return.

Dario has been Ivano's assistant and took charge of the team for much of the latter part of last season while his brother was in Italy.

There have been claims that Ivano had already cleared his desk and his Scottish home.