Barry Ferguson comments on Derek McInnes to Rangers speculation

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Ibrox club Glasgow Rangers reportedly want Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes as the manager of the Gers, who lost to Hamilton Academical at the weekend.

Barry Ferguson has suggested that Rangers will struggle to afford Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes, as quoted by The Glasgow Evening Times.

According to The Scottish Sun, Aberdeen boss McInnes is a managerial target for Rangers.

Graeme Murty is in charge of the Rangers first team at the moment, with Pedro Caixinha having lost his managerial job at Ibrox in October.

Former Rangers midfielder Ferguson has suggested that the Glasgow giants may not be able to secure McInnes’s services due to the compensation fee involves.

“He signed a new contract over the summer somewhere in the region between £750,000 and £800,000,” The Glasgow Evening Times quotes Ferguson as saying. “I don’t know if Rangers can afford that because they’ve had to pay off Pedro Caixinha and his staff. So that’s a worry.”

Last week, Ferguson wondered whether there was a difference between the board and director of football Mark Allen regarding McInnes.

The former Scotland international midfielder also gave his opinion on other managerial candidates for the Glasgow giants.

“I saw Henning Berg’s name was mentioned in Record Sport yesterday and I’ve also heard Tim Sherwood and Gus Poyet’s names being aired,” Ferguson wrote in The Daily Record (November 17, 2017).

“These guys might be good managers but I’ve said previously I feel Rangers need someone who knows the values of the club and the pressure that comes with it.

“No disrespect to the aforementioned names but I don’t think they really understand what Rangers are all about. That’s why they have to go and get Derek McInnes.”

“It would certainly be difficult if the situation isn’t resolved before the Rangers-Aberdeen double header at the end of this month but I’m convinced someone will be appointed by then,” Ferguson wrote in The Daily Record.

“Could it be there is a bit of conflict between the board and director of football Mark Allen when it comes to McInnes? Possibly.”

Rangers lost 2-0 to Hamilton Academical at Ibrox in the Scottish Premiership at the weekend.

David Templeton and Darren Lyon scored the goals for the visiting team, who ended the game with 10 men due to the sending-off of Alex Gogic in the first minute of injury time.

Striker Kenny Miller has sympathised with 19-year-old defender Ross McCrorie, who made the mistake which led to Templeton’s goal.

“It is always going to happen, you are going to have a game where things go against you and he is unfortunate it has led to a goal and what cost us at the start of the half,” Miller told Rangers’ official website about McCrorie.

“He picked himself up again and he wasn’t hiding which is always a good trait for a Rangers player. He know everybody is behind him in that dressing room and these things happen, it is just unfortunate we have not been able to rescue him today and get ourselves back in it.”