Daniel Feliciano

Mon 7 November 2022 10:10, UK

Journalist Derek Clark has admitted that it “wouldn’t be a surprise” if Ross Wilson contacted Ralph Hasenhuttl to take over at Rangers after he was sacked by Southampton.

The Austrian coach is set to be fired at St Mary’s after taking the Saints to the relegation zone, with The Athletic reporting (6 November) that the club have made the decision to part ways with him following his side’s poor form.

And after Giovanni van Bronckhorst edged nearer the exit door at Ibrox following Rangers’ 2-1 defeat to St Johnstone on Sunday afternoon (6 November), Clark shared that he wouldn’t be shocked to see a reunion in the near future.

“Ralph Hasenhuttl gets the sack from Southampton,” he wrote on his personal Twitter account (6 November).

“Wouldn’t be a surprise if Ross Wilson is soon in touch with his former colleague.”

Wilson and Hasenhuttl worked together at Southampton, before Wilson made the move north to join Rangers back in 2019.

Interesting

Wilson has been the one to build this squad and many fans are fuming at the job he’s done, taking the team backwards over the last 12 months.

But if he was able to use his contacts in the game to bring in a manager with the experience and tactical nous of Hasenhuttl then it would be hard to argue that it’s not a great bit of business.

He’s very tactically flexible and plays an exciting brand of football, while also knowing how to work on a shoestring budget and bringing through youth players.

All of those things fit in well with the way Rangers are run currently, and he would certainly bring more of a threat to Celtic than Van Bronckhorst has done during his tenure at the club.

Neither manager has officially left their job as of this writing, but this seems like an evolving story and certainly one to keep an eye on with the month-long World Cup break looming over everyone’s head.

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