JamieG54

when you read that you think what the fuck. If that was another club it would be laughed at on here

Gennaro 'Rino' Gattuso has admitted he wants to be the next manager of Rangers after the Ibrox club finally confirmed Ally McCoist is working a 12-month notice period. The Italian World Cup winner spent a short spell in Glasgow in the late 1990s as a teenager before moving on to Salernitana then AC Milan. The 36-year-old revealed: ‘My wife is from Glasgow but the main reason to want to go there is because Rangers is a big team with big stories. ‘Believe me, the priority would not be my family. It would be the job and the chance to work for a big club which is in my heart. There are many reasons, not just my family.’ Currently in charge of OFI Crete, Gattuso claims he tried to quit the Greek side in October because he felt his players didn’t believe in him but changed his mind 24 hours later after talks with fans. The Heraklion-based side currently lies a lowly 15th in the Super League after a 2-0 defeat at Panionios on Sunday. ‘Two years ago I started as a manager at Sion and now I am carrying on my time in football in Heraklion,’ he continued ‘My situation at Crete is not simple. I wanted to leave but the fans would not let me go and that is okay. ‘I only played for a year and a half at Rangers but it was a big pleasure to do that so, of course, I would be interested in the job there.’ Gattuso is thought to be one of a few options the Ibrox board is considering. McCoist tendered his resignation on Thursday, although the news was leaked just a few hours before a 2-0 defeat to Queen of the South on Friday night. After three days of silence in Govan, the club confirmed the move in a statement to the London Stock Exchange on Monday morning

http://m.tuttomercatoweb.com/europa/esclusiva-tmw-rangers-mccoist-dimissionario-gattuso-candidato-624246 http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/547068/Rino-Gattuso-Ally-McCoist-Rangers-AC-Milan

The headline in the articles suggest he is set to...meaning pretty much a stick on. I find it a bit too fast but those words aren't used unless someone is sure so it's worth posting.

ESCLUSIVA TMW - Rangers, McCoist dimissionario. Gattuso candidato 15.12.2014 17.27 di Gaetano Mocciaro Secondo quanto appreso daTuttomercatoweb Rino Gattuso potrebbe tornare ai Rangers. Dopo esser stato vicinissimo nell'estate 2012 (affare sfumato a causa dei problemi societari dei Gers, poi falliti), l'attuale tecnico dell'OFI Creta è in pole position per succedere ad Ally Mc Coist, leggenda nonché tecnico dimissionario della gloriosa squadra di Glasgow, attualmente secondo in classifica nella Seconda divisione scozzese, con 9 punti di distacco dagli Hearts.

FOOTBALL REVEALED: Rino Gattuso is set to take charge at Rangers following Ally McCoist resignation. (AC MILAN and Italy legend Rino Gattuso is closing in on a return to Rangers following the resignation of Ally McCoist) Rino Gattuso has been backed to take over from Ally McCoist at Rangers According to Tuttomercatoweb, the former Gers star is favourite to take the reigns at Ibrox following the shock revelation. The Scottish club notified the Stock Exchange about their manager's departure this morning, although McCoist will continue to take charge of first-team proceedings after being given a wage increase. Gattuso joined Rangers in 1997 at the age of 19, making 51 appearances under both Walter Smith and Dick Advocaat. The midfielder took to the field 468 times during his stay at the San Siro, and after having managerial roles at Sion, Palermo and OFI Crete, the 36-year-old is ready to return to Glasgow in order to lead Rangers back into the Scottish Premiership.

Barry Ferguson or AVB

Would love to see this. We need run well and he will do that.

I wouldn't post that until after Wednesday. He may walk away with nothing after he meets the board. I am just glad he isn't our Manager. Hope he gets his health back and looks better next time we see him.

Wednesday looks the key day.

Gordon Parks from Sunday Mail had a go at the media for not criticising Ally and his team for struggling against part timers and their style of football. I would have to agree with him on this. Too many people love Ally as a person and that makes the media back down. Here's the piece below... LAST Sunday morning Ally McCoist rang my mobile. “How are you Ally?” His reply signalled this wasn’t to be a call of the happy chappie variety. “Not too f****** good.” "" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 300px; border: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;"> It wasn’t a promising start to a
conversation which delivered a crude but direct pointer of a man who was starting to buckle under the strain. The tone of last week’s Parks Life column hadn’t been to his liking and for the next five minutes I felt the full force of his fury. It was a piece designed to illustrate the lack of criticism he’s had to face from 
former team-mates, Scottish football 
pundits and relevant Rangers personalities. It hadn’t gone down well. Ironically, the headline was about the Sound of Silence. Well, that hush had now been well and truly broken with a barrage of expletives from a man who had reached his pressure point. The two faces of McCoist have been gradually emerging over the past three and a half traumatic years. One is a healthy and jovial demeanour which disarms and oozes charm. The 
other is strained with stress – grey, serious and concerned. The current Rangers board don’t deserve an Ally McCoist and the sooner the healthy glow replaces the pale pallor of his cheeks the better. It’s another reason why he should be calling it a day. Ally’s assertion was that I had quoted several former team-mates without
revealing their identity and was hiding behind their words to have a go at him and his Rangers reign. I felt he was missing the point. Let’s just say he wasn’t to be persuaded otherwise. It was a column which highlighted the regard in which he’s held by the great and the good of our game. No one is prepared to have a pop. Despite an armada of artillery being lined up to fire his way with each passing poor performance or defeat, it was case of “I see no ships”. Further details of the call will remain private but he made his point and it 
certainly illustrated the long suspected belief that there is more to McCoist than first meets the eye. Hidden within the warm, witty and engaging exterior lurks a steely edge which has been
the driving force of a hugely successful career. The determination and unrelenting appetite for achieving success isn’t fuelled by japes, jokes or sharp
one-liners, it’s an inbuilt
single-minded focus which remains his biggest strength. Its a selfishness of sorts. Loyalty also appears to be fundamental to the McCoist mantra, it’s also the most 
likely catalyst for his 
decision on Thursday to 
hand in his notice. The fact youth chief Jimmy Sinclair’s job is now on the line appears to have been the last straw after seeing a host of friends and colleagues shown the Murray Park door. McCoist’s popularity knows no bounds. He’s a rare breed – a Scottish sporting hero with a character to match. That’s why it’s been so painful to watch his managerial career become one step forward then two steps back and it now appears to be falling over a cliff. But that shouldn’t be a disclaimer for being
 subjected to the same scrutiny and criticism as any of his peers. It appears to be the Rangers way to refuse to slam one of their own but it shouldn’t be part of the sportswriters’ code. Again the failings were exposed in Friday night’s shocker at Queen of
the South. Defensive shambles
 led by Bilel Mohsni (left)and Richard Foster? Check. Midfielders lacking purpose and commitment while making a drama out of every challenge circa Ian Black? Check. Wide players such as Fraser Aird
 without a clue how to miss the first defender when crossing the ball? Check. Strikers starved of service and trying to scrap about off an aimless long-ball approach? Check. Palmerston was a 90-minute advert
for the same old problems, the lack of
professionalism and direction which failed to see a single first-half shot on target against Alloa last week was again on show. In the entire 90 minutes against Queens they managed just three. McCoist admits it’s not good enough, it’s frankly a sustained run of rubbish on a 
scale never seen from a side of such stature with a salary to boot. And that’s the truth of it, even it puts a few bluenoses out of joint. It’s an occupational hazard to be a sportswriter with a background of having played the professional game. McCoist’s complaint brought back the memory of another MailSport headline which read “McCall for United” back
in 2003. My old boss, Alex Smith, was already in the post and there is no one in football I hold in higher regard. I knew Ian McCall was to replace him at Tannadice the following day and it was another difficult telephone call with my old boss on a Sunday when I told him he’d be moved out on the Monday. Despite his insistence it wouldn’t happen, Monday came and he was gone. There’s always the danger of shooting the messenger in such scenarios. Wheeling away in delight after scoring in a friendly against Rangers a few years ago was my first introduction to McCoist. He said: “Good goal, wee man, but don’t get too carried away - you’ve only 350 more to go if you want to catch me.” That’s the McCoist we know and love – not that guy on the other end of my mobile.

Allys shown how clever he is off the field with a brilliant move that's left Ibrox chiefs completely wrong footed says ex Gers hero Charlie Miller ALLY McCoist earned his 
status as a Rangers legend by making blindside runs that bamboozled defenders. After all, he didn’t score 355 goals for the Ibrox club without boxing clever and using game intelligence. And now, by tendering his resignation as Rangers gaffer, former team-mate Charlie Miller reckons McCoist is using his guile off the pitch instead of on it. Scottish football was stunned on Friday afternoon when news broke that the manager had handed in his 12-month notice. "" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 300px; border: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;"> After three years of unprecedented chaos at Ibrox, McCoist has reached breaking point in his battle with the Rangers power-brokers. It’s believed that seeing long-serving staff at Murray Park – including his own secretary – paid off as part of a new cost-cutting programme was the final straw. But by putting the ball back into the court of Mike Ashley, who is effectively running Rangers, and his right-hand man Derek Llambias, Miller insists McCoist has pulled a master stroke. And he feels that his nine-in-a-row pal is right to call out Ashley and his representatives and force them either to back him or sack him. Miller, who played alongside McCoist for five years under Walter Smith, told MailSport: “I always knew Coisty was clever on the pitch but I think he’s now showing how cute he can be off it as well. “He was one of the most intelligent footballers I played with. You could see that with the goals he scored. “He’s taken a lot of stick as a 
manager but if it’s true that he’s 
handed in a 12-month notice, I believe he has been very clever. “Coisty will probably have been advised legally to do it. He has made his move and the next one is Ashley’s or Llambias’. “It looks as though Coisty has had enough. A lot of workers have been 
paid off at Ibrox and that will have 
hurt him. “These are people who have been around the club from way back, even to my time at Rangers. “Maybe that’s been the final straw 
for him. By offering to resign he’s
effectively saying to Ashley and the board ‘Stop all this nonsense above my head and support me – or cough up what I’m owed to get rid of me’. “It’s an astute move and one I don’t think Ashley and Llambias were expecting. “But it doesn’t surprise me with Coisty. Everything he does is for a reason. People always see his light-hearted side but he won’t be taken for a mug and he’s proving that now.” Miller remains a close ally of McCoist and he knows how much it will hurt the club’s greatest goalscorer to leave Ibrox. But after three-and-a-half years of 
turmoil at the club, the former Gers 
midfielder insists no one should 
blame McCoist if he does choose to 
walk away. Miller said: “Coisty is good at putting a brave face on things, he’s shown that in the past few years at Rangers. He’s had to put up with a lot of things that no manager should have to deal with. “But he has always kept his dignity and tried to do what’s best for the club. “Now he has to look after himself though, especially if he believes there are people working against him at the club. “But I know how much it will be hurting him. I watched him being
interviewed after the Queen of the South game on Friday night and you certainly could see that it’s affecting him. “That club means so much to him. He has given Rangers 22 years of his life
so he will not want to leave without
achieving what he set out to do. “He always said he just wanted to get the club back to the top flight where they belong – but it doesn’t look like he’ll get that chance now.” Miller watched Rangers’ latest debacle on the pitch through the cracks of his fingers as McCoist’s men were comprehensively beaten 2-0 by Queens at Palmerston. The defeat leaves them nine points behind Hearts in the Championship race and battling for a play-off spot with the likes of Queens and Hibs. Miller admits the team’s performances have not been good enough but is adamant that – with the chaos surrounding the club since Ashley got involved – it’s no wonder the players aren’t performing. He said: “Everyone knows Rangers have not played well this season and Hearts are worthy Championship leaders. “They deserve to be where they are and, post-administration, they are in a far
better state than Rangers are. “Coisty would accept himself that
certain players have not performed
for him but it must be difficult when
they have no idea what’s going on at
the club. “The players are uncertain about the future of Rangers and now they have no idea whether their manager will still be in charge next week. “That can’t be a healthy environment to play football in. “It’s no excuse for some of the
performances this season but it would be hard for any player to concentrate solely on football with all the madness going on around them. “If everything was settled at Ibrox, I’d have no doubts about Coisty’s 
ability to challenge Hearts and get Rangers back to the Premiership. “But that has never really been the case, which is a shame for him, the club and the fans.” Miller also states Ally is a one man club and would never manage a club in Scotland other than Rangers. Reckons Ally could start somewhere in England.

Falkirk always done well off that deal

We just don't play good football or have tactics or fighting spirit. We are at a low and change is needed all over. We just got away with it in Div 3 and 2 as these teams would tire after 70 minutes. We have been found out this season and I saw it coming as did many others. I'm frightened about the celtic game if Allys still here. Really could be damaging....If the players can't fight for their Manager when he resigns then an early goal conceded and the team will crumble. People can say what they want but you would take a 1-0 defeat just now. We score 1 deflection v Cowdenbeath and can't score v Hearts (who they demolish twice this year) or QOS. It's going to be a great build up but the match will be a horror show. As it stands if Allys in charge we won't win that semi final. 100%. If we have a new Manager then you never know.

We will be mid to lower table just now

Well done Gordon, tremendous piece. Hope it gets a reaction out of Ally.

Thank fuck, bring on Wednesday let's start heading in the right direction

Imagine coming on here smashed. Take it your stumbling back from best kebab no bird

Liar

fucking amazing You have to laugh or you'd be on suicide watch

Your maws so big, it stopped Ally getting on the bus yesterday

Don't you hate the tims too?

September 24, 1962: Born Alistair Murdoch McCoist in Bellshill Maternity Hospital. September, 1977: In spite of being late for a trial match, he signs for St Johnstone, rebuffing interest from Rangers. "" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 300px; border: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;"> April 7, 1979: Makes his debut for St Johnstone, starting in a 3-0 win over Raith Rovers at McDiarmid Park. August 16, 1980: Scores his first senior goal in a 3-0 win against Dumbarton at Boghead, and goes on to score 23 goals that season. August 25, 1981: McCoist rejects offers from Rangers, Middlesbrough and Wolves to join Sunderland in a deal worth £380,000 to the Perth club. June 8, 1983: After just nine goals in 65 games on Wearside, Rangers sign McCoist at the third attempt. Manager John Greig pays £185,000 for the 20-year-old. September 3, 1983: McCoist scores after just 33 seconds of his debut at Parkhead but Old Firm rivals Celtic go on to win 2-1. March 25, 1984: Having been jeered by fans earlier in the season, McCoist becomes an Ibrox icon when he scores a hat-trick as Jock Wallace’s side beat Celtic 3-2 in the League Cup final at Hampden. In Pictures: Ally McCoist's trophy-laden Rangers career VIEW GALLERY April 29, 1986: Makes his Scotland debut in a 0-0 draw with Holland in Eindhoven. September, 1987: Charged with minor assault and fined £150 following an incident at a chip shop in East Kilbride. June 11-20, 1990: Plays – but doesn’t score – in Scotland’s World Cup ties against Costa Rica, Sweden and Brazil at Italia 90. May 9, 1992: Scores the decisive goal as Rangers beat Airdrie 2-1 to win the Scottish Cup for the first time in 11 years. It was his only winner’s medal in the competition. His 41 goals for club and country saw him collect the European Golden Boot and he was voted Player of the Year by the PFA and the Scottish Football Writers’ Association. October 21, 1992: Rangers come from behind to beat Leeds United 2-1 in the first leg of the Battle of Britain at Ibrox. Two weeks later he repeats the feat as Walter Smith’s side qualify for the group stage of the first Champions League. April 28, 1993: McCoist – who had already become the first player to retain the Golden Boot – broke his leg during the 5-0 defeat by Portugal in Lisbon which ended Scotland’s hopes of reaching USA 94. Follow our LIVE blog on Ally McCoist quitting Rangers here October 24, 1993: Ally comes off the bench to score the winner with a spectacular overhead kick as Rangers beat Hibs 2-1 in the League Cup final. June 11, 1994: The Queen awards McCoist the MBE for services to football. March 27, 1996: Captaining Scotland for the only time, he scores the only goal against Australia at Hampden. 1996: McCoist and snooker star John Parrott were introduced as team captains on BBC1’s A Question of Sport, a position the Scot held for 11 years. June 18, 1996: Scotland beat Switzerland 1-0 at Euro 96 with McCoist scoring his final goal for the national team. November 24, 1996: Paul Gascoigne and McCoist both notch doubles as Rangers beat Hearts 4-3 at Parkhead to give the striker a record ninth League Cup winner’s medal. He also scores 10 league goals to help the club equal Celtic’s record of nine successive league titles. May 16, 1998: Comes off the bench to score in his last appearance for Rangers in the Scottish Cup final but Hearts win 2-1. His 355 goals in 581 games is a club record. August 4, 1998: Kilmarnock manager Bobby Williamson, a former Ibrox team-mate, takes the veteran to Rugby Park. October 10, 1998: Wins his final cap – at the age of 35 – in the 3-2 European Championship qualifier against Estonia at Tynecastle. He also co-hosts a chat show for BBC Scotland with Fred McAulay, which last for just one series. Ally McCoist wins his final Scotland cap in 1998 October 16, 1999: Suffers a second broken leg 44 minutes into a 1-1 draw with Rangers at Rugby Park. September 11, 2000: A Shot At Glory, the film which features McCoist as boozy former Celtic striker Jacke McQuillan (who comes back to inspire Kilnockie to Scottish Cup glory against Rangers), is premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. His coach was played by Oscar-winning Godfather star Robert Duvall but even his presence – and that of Michael “Batman” Keaton – couldn’t stop the film from sinking like a stone. May 20, 2001: Plays for the last time in the 1-0 home win over Celtic which takes Killie into the UEFA Cup. He comes off during the second half, replaced by debutant Kris Boyd. 2005: Having rejected the opportunity to join Rangers manager Alex McLeish’s coaching staff due to his television commitments, McCoist accepts a part-time role as coach under Scotland manager Ally McCoist. January 10, 2007: McCoist agrees to return to Ibrox as No.2 to Smith, who leaves the national team to take over from Paul le Guen. December, 2007: McCoist is inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame. Earlier in the year he had been inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. February 22, 2011: Rangers officially confirm that McCoist will succeed Smith as Rangers manager at the end of the season. March 2, 2011: First minister Alex Salmond announces a summit to tackle Old Firm-related social disorder following Celtic’s 1-0 Scottish Cup win over Rangers at Parkhead. Three Rangers players were red-carded and McCoist and Celtic manager Neil Lennon had to be separated after comments from the former sparked a bust-up at the end of the tie. July 26, 2011: Malmo beat Rangers 1-0 at Ibrox in a Champions League qualifier in McCoist’s first European tie as boss. A 1-1 draw in the return sees them eliminated. August 25, 2011: Having lost 2-1 in Slovenia, Rangers can only draw 1-1 with NK Maribor in their Europa League play-off and miss out on vital revenue from UEFA. September 21, 2011: First Division Falkirk beat Rangers (who used 12 international players) 3-2 to reach the quarter-finals of the League Cup. November 5, 2011: Rangers beat Dundee United 3-1 at Ibrox to move 15 points clear of Celtic at the top of the SPL. Ally McCoist is far from impressed as Rangers crashed out of the Scottish Cup to Dundee United February 5, 2012: Rangers dumped out of the Scottish Cup after losing 2-0 at home to Dundee United. February 14, 2012: Rangers, already trailing Celtic by four points, are hit with a 10-point penalty after Craig Whyte plunges them into administration. February 16, 2012: He issues his famous rallying cry: “This is my club – the same as it is for thousands and thousands of Rangers supporters – and we don’t do walking away.” June 15, 2012: After talks with chief executive Charles Green, McCoist agrees to stay on as manager at Ibrox. July 13, 2012: Scottish Football League clubs refuse to catapult the club into the First Division but allow them to start in the bottom tier. March 30, 2013: Defeats at Ibrox by Queen of the South and Inverness saw Rangers knocked out of the Ramsdens and League Cups while Dundee United beat them 3-0 in the Scottish Cup at Tannadice. However, a 0-0 draw at Montrose was enough to clinch the Third Division title. In Pictures: Ally McCoist, Rangers manager VIEW GALLERY August 3, 2013: McCoist brands returning chief executive Charles Green “an embarrassment” after he claimed that the manager had to win a cup in order to keep his job. Rangers had just 2-1 after extra time to part-time Forfar in the League Cup. August 11, 2013: Ally claims he would accept a wage cut to help the cash-strapped club. December 8, 2013: McCoist reveals that Rangers have yet to implement a cut in his £825,000 salary. April 6, 2014: Raith Rovers beat Rangers 1-0 after extra time in the Ramsdens Cup final at Easter Road. Six days later McCoist’s men lose 3-1 to Dundee United at Ibrox in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup. May 3, 2014: A 1-1 draw with Dunfermline sees Rangers complete their League One campaign unbeaten, winning the title by 39 points. August 10, 2014: Nicky Law scored a 90th-minute equaliser after Danny Wilson had headed Hearts ahead at Ibrox but Osman Sow scores a stoppage-time winner for the visitors. September 29, 2014: A double from Jason Cummings and a header from David Gray gave Hibs a 3-0 half-time lead at Ibrox. Law’s goal was no consolation as Rangers were jeered from the pitch. 3-1 loss to Hibs at Ibrox left McCoist scratching his head and the fans livid October 4, 2014: McCoist claims that his £825,000 salary doesn’t mean that the club can’t afford to get rid of him. “I don't think there has ever been a manager at all who hasn't been sackable,” he said. "I wouldn't sit here for a minute and say I'm bombproof. I'm still wearing the flak jacket, but nobody is bombproof." November 21: McCoist admits: “There’s no place like being out there on the training ground. That’s the greatest thing of the lot. Being with the boys, watching training and taking part in the preparation. “I have to be honest, though, and say that enjoyment is not a word I would use to describe how I feel when I’m watching my team play football.” November 22: Steven Smith receives a first-half red card as Hearts beat Rangers 2-0 at Tynecastle to move nine points clear at the top of the table. December 3: Dean Shiels and Kenny Miller put Rangers in the driving seat but part-timers Alloa Athletic score in the last 18 minutes through Greig Spence (2) and Ryan McCord to win their Petrofac Training Cup semi-final. December 12: McCoist offers his resignation to the board.

hope to fuck not. I'd be starting Ally In threads

Has he ever been a Manager outwith under 21s? Job for the Boys Newcastle style