Ally McCoist wants England and Chelsea legend to be next Rangers manager | Football

Ally McCoist has revealed he is keen to see England and Chelsea legend Frank Lampard become the next manager of Scottish club Rangers.

Lampard is currently managing Coventry City in 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 way down in 17th when he first arrived.

The 46-year-old has taken charge of 19 Championship games to date, with Coventry winning 12, drawing three and losing just four of those matches.

Lampard, who previously managed Derby County, Chelsea and Everton, wrote himself into Coventry history after Saturday’s victory over Stoke City.

The 3-2 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 up to fifth, inside the play-off places, with the club now in a fight to earn promotion.

Having worked miracles at the Coventry Building Society Arena, Rangers icon McCoist is hoping Lampard could be tempted to take the job at Ibrox.

Barry Ferguson is currently managing the Scottish club on an interim basis until the end of the season after Rangers sacked Philippe Clement.

The Old Firm giants dismissed Clement in late February after a home 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 love to see Lampard follow in 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 should have gone for Frank Lampard before he went to Coventry,’ McCoist told talkSPORT BET.

‘I’ve said this for a while and I think he could’ve been like Steven Gerrard in the way that they come to the club with the hunger to succeed, as I always felt that he was overly criticised for some of the results at his previous jobs, he looks to have found his feet.

‘I must admit Barry Ferguson’s appointment surprised me; I thought it was left field.

‘I’m a Rangers supporter and I want the boys to do well, but it surprised me alongside the rest 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 thought that he might have a chance due to 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 so far from Celtic in the league and out of the cup, domestically they haven’t been good enough. I wasn’t surprised and I’ll never say I’m pleased to see a manager get fired, but I wasn’t disappointed.

‘As far as other candidates go, Steven Gerrard coming back wouldn’t disappoint me, he knows the club well and has a point to prove.

‘There’s talk of Rafa Benitez and Derek McInnes – Derek knows the club well and I’d be happy with him, the ship may have sailed for him though.

‘I can guarantee you, that with the new owners coming in, the Rangers job will be heavily sought after and hopefully they can get the right man in to take them forward.’

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