Ally McCoist has revealed he’s keen to see England and Chelsea legend Frank Lampard turn out to be the following manager of Scottish club Rangers.
Lampard is currently managing Coventry City within the Championship, the second tier of English football, one step below the Premier League.
The England and Chelsea icon has massively impressed since taking the Sky Blues job, with the club all the best way down in seventeenth when he first arrived.
The 46-year-old has taken charge of 19 Championship games so far, with Coventry winning 12, drawing three and losing just 4 of those matches.
Lampard, who previously managed Derby County, Chelsea and Everton, wrote himself into Coventry history after Saturday’s victory over Stoke City.
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The three-2 triumph marked nine wins across Coventry’s last 10 league games, a feat the club had only previously managed back in September 1954.
Coventry’s stunning form under Lampard has seen them climb as much as fifth, contained in the play-off places, with the club now in a fight to earn promotion.
Having worked miracles on the Coventry Constructing Society Arena, Rangers icon McCoist is hoping Lampard could possibly be tempted to take the job at Ibrox.
Barry Ferguson is currently managing the Scottish club on an interim basis until the top of the season after Rangers sacked Philippe Clement.
The Old Firm giants dismissed Clement in late February after a house defeat to St Mirren saw them fall a whopping 13 points behind Celtic.
McCoist, Rangers’ club record goalscorer who won nine successive Scottish titles from 1988-89 to 1996-97, would like to see Lampard follow within the footsteps of fellow England legend Steven Gerrard.
Gerrard managed Rangers between 2018 and 2021, with the Liverpool hero leading the Glasgow-based club to the Scottish title in 2020-21.
‘Rangers must have gone for Frank Lampard before he went to Coventry,’ McCoist told talkSPORT BET.
‘I’ve said this for some time and I believe he could’ve been like Steven Gerrard in the best way that they arrive to the club with the hunger to succeed, as I at all times felt that he was overly criticised for a number of the results at his previous jobs, he looks to have found his feet.
‘I have to admit Barry Ferguson’s appointment surprised me; I assumed it was left field.
‘I’m a Rangers supporter and I would like the boys to do well, but it surely surprised me alongside the remainder of the supporters – although that doesn’t mean we’re not all behind him.
‘I wasn’t surprised about Philippe Clement losing the job. I get it, personally I assumed that he might need a likelihood because of their European results, but I can see why you’d get the sack off the back of the Queen’s Park and Motherwell defeats.
‘They’re to date from Celtic within the league and out of the cup, domestically they haven’t been adequate. I wasn’t surprised and I’ll never say I’m pleased to see a manager get fired, but I wasn’t upset.
‘So far as other candidates go, Steven Gerrard coming back wouldn’t disappoint me, he knows the club well and has some extent to prove.
‘There’s talk of Rafa Benitez and Derek McInnes – Derek knows the club well and I’d be joyful with him, the ship can have sailed for him though.
‘I can guarantee you, that with the brand new owners coming in, the Rangers job will probably be heavily wanted and hopefully they will get the suitable man in to take them forward.’
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