‘Outstanding’: Rangers now keen on manager Gary Neville has called a ‘great young coach’

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According to Dean Jones, Rangers are keen on Scott Parker as a potential replacement for Giovani van Bronckhorst.

The Glasgow outfit are reportedly keen on Parker, and, based on his CV, that isn’t the most exciting appointment they could make.

Two relegations and a sacking isn’t the best track record for any manager, but make no mistake about it, Parker is highly rated within the game.

Gary Neville has always been a champion of Parker. He did his coaching licenses at the same time as the former Bournemouth boss, and he’s always maintained that he was one of the brightest young coaches in the game.

Neville hails Parker

Neville has spoken highly of Parker on a few occasions.

“He was definitely highly thought of when he did his licenses. All of the coaches do their licenses, all of the coaches do it and they go through in batches and he was one of the most highly thought of who’d done it for a long time,” Neville said on The Overlap recently.

The pundit also praised Parker last year on his podcast.

“When I was finishing off my pro license, one of the coaching educators I was working with was Roy Hodgson, and he specifically mentioned that Scott Parker was an outstanding student in the pro license cohort at the time, and that always stuck on my mind. He’s someone who doesn’t get coaches wrong. You can see now, no panic, the reality is that what he’s doing at this moment in time is special because it goes against everything,” Neville said.

“What Fulham have done is they’ve supported Scott, they know they have a great young coach, they recruited well and now they’re building momentum.”

Got something

Scott Parker hasn’t been the most exciting manager during his stints at Bournemouth and Fulham, but given that Neville is often banging this drum, he clearly has something.

You don’t earn praise like this if you don’t know your stuff, and the fact that Parker is described as an outstanding student is promising.

He’s still so young and he’s learning every year, so perhaps he’s now ready to join a team like Rangers where he can play a more dominant brand of football rather than being a backfoot manager at a relegation-threatened club.