Barry Ferguson backs ‘brilliant’ Sam Allardyce as logical Rangers manager appointment, he wants the job
Sam Allardyce has “brilliant experience” and would make sense as the new Rangers manager if he were to get the job, according to Barry Ferguson.
The former Gers captain said on Go Radio, via the Daily Record, on 4 October that the former England manager “can get a team organised” and “knows how to manage” so he could see why the 68-year-old might be considered.
Former Everton, West Ham and Blackburn Rovers boss Allardyce “left the door open” to getting a call from Ibrox by stating it would be “an honour” to manage the Light Blues in an interview, the Daily Record reported.
Ferguson said: “One came to mind and I seen him do an interview, Sam Allardyce. I know he is a bit older but he can get a team organised. He knows how to manage and he has brilliant experience.
“I can understand the reasoning behind that, so it will be interesting to see what route they go down.”
Game has moved on
There would have been a time when Allardyce heading north to manage Rangers would have been a significant coup for the club, but that time is surely long past.
Leeds United pressed the emergency button at the tail end of last season in the hope that he could rescue them from relegation over the final four games in the Premier League campaign and ultimately went down after winning none of them.
Prior to that Big Sam had been out of work since the first relegation of his career with West Brom two years earlier, and while other veteran English manages such as Neil Warnock and Steve Bruce have come into the conversation Rangers surely need to steer well clear.
Allardyce may be a six-time former winner of the Premier League’s manager of the month award, and he didn’t get given the national team job in England by mistake.
But the last of those awards was nine years ago, while his tenure as Three Lions boss lasted all of one game, and Rangers ideally need somebody to last multiple seasons at Ibrox and install a new, expansive style of play.
Some of the more realistic options aren’t exactly exciting the supporters right now but Allardyce is not the answer.
In other Rangers news, the four “main names” in the running started being contacted by the club a number of weeks ago.