Rangers fans react to reports suggesting Gary Rowett could challenge Pedro Caixinha for manager’s position

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Rangers managerial chase is not over yet with the former Birmingham City boss reportedly still in the running.

After weeks of speculation, Rangers looked certain to finally appoint Mark Warburton’s successor. And, instead of Alex ‘safe pair of hands’ McLeish or the pipe dream of Frank De Boer, it appeared that a little known Portuguese, renowned for his uber-attacking tactics and likened to one James Bond in the local media, would be announced as a distinctly left-field appointment. The name was Caixinha, Pedro Caixinha.

Yet, according to the Daily Mail, Gary Rowett, the apparent bastion of young British coaches, appears to have thrown his hat into the ring at the eleventh hour as the deal to bring the current Al-Gharafa coach to Ibrox drags on.

And Rowett, who had been interviewed by the club’s chiefs, suggests that he would not be inhibited by the size of the task facing the next manager at Rangers.

“[The pressure] is what you are in football for,’ Rowett said in quotes reported by the Daily Mail. “The bigger the pressure, the bigger the club, the bigger the games, the bigger the competition.

“That is why you start out. It doesn’t mean if there is any less pressure I will give it any less work and ambition. But you want to work at the highest level at any club and you want the biggest club possible.”

While Caixinha’s spells in Mexico and Qatar have raised doubts about his suitability to take on one of Britain’s biggest clubs, the fact is that Rowett is no more qualified. Yes he has experience in the English game but that does not necessarily translate north of the border.

And, while he performed commendably at Burton and Birmingham, Ibrox brings a completely different level of expectation.

But, in a straight shootout, who would Rangers fans pick? The sophisticated, continental charm of Caixinha or Rowett’s hardlined British grit?