Reports suggest Derek McInnes could still be on his way to Ibrox despite the Dons manager seeming to be content at Pittodrie. Rangers fans will be relieved to have the club’s long-running managerial saga sorted, but is McInnes really the right man for the job ?
Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne appeared to bring an end to any speculation linking manager Derek McInnes with a move to Ibrox last week.
Milne told the Daily Record that McInnes had unfinished business at Pittodrie and wanted to add to his 2014 Scottish League Cup title. It appeared at that time that there was no chance that Rangers could turn to the 46-year-old as a replacement for Pedro Caixinha.
But just a week later, fresh life has been given to reports that appeared to be going nowhere. The Scottish Sun reports that Alex Rae claims sources have told him that McInnes could be unveiled as Rangers’ new manager as early as next week.
This comes after the Daily Star also claimed that the former Rangers midfielder, who played at Ibrox between 1995 and 2000, could still be in the frame to take a job that has been sitting empty now for over a month.
But while Rangers supporters would be relieved that the long search for a manager could be over, there’s a nagging sense that the club would be appointing McInnes at the worst possible time.
After all, his Aberdeen side were shown up quite brutally by a Rangers outfit managed by caretaker Graeme Murty in midweek, going down 3-0 at Ibrox, with many fans lauding it over the manager who was believed to have turned them down.
Questions have been asked before of McInnes’ failure to reel in Celtic at the top of the table and, after that drubbing at Ibrox, his big-game tactics were also put under severe scrutiny.
So if Rangers do appoint McInnes after all, expect supporters to be far more divided than they would have been a few weeks ago.
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