Monday 1 June 2015 13:15, UK
Neil McCann feels Stuart McCall should not be kept on as Rangers manager, following the club's failure to get promoted.
McCall has wants to remain in charge at Ibrox despite their play-off final defeat to Motherwell over two legs.
McCann, who played for Rangers between 1998 and 2003, says the club have to win the Scottish Championship next season and will have the financial firepower to do so.
But he does not feel McCall is the man who should be given the responsibility to spend the Ibrox club's vast resources.
"Probably not," he told Sky Sports News HQ when asked if he felt McCall should be kept on. "If he had taken them up, I'd say he is the right man for the job but he had seven wins in his time in charge and that's not a sparkling stat.
"He'll admit to that and he tried his utmost but the results aren't good enough. He'll dearly love an opportunity to rebuild and they have fantastic resources.
"Some of the guys they've brought to the club are on big wages and it will be a very strong budget for that division. They have to absolutely guarantee winning the Championship with the money they can spend."
I heard Stuart McCall say he couldn't have asked for any more but I absolutely disagree - the Rangers players could have given so much more.
McCann feels former Brentford manager Mark Warburton would be a good option for his former club, where any prospective new manager will have the opportunity to overhaul the squad because several players are out of contract this summer.
"The good thing for Rangers is a lot of the players are now out of contract so a new manager who goes in will have a lot of money to spend on wages and an opportunity to almost start again," he said.
"There's not too many out-of-contract players who I would keep. Not many of them have put their hands up to say they deserve a contract and that’s damning.
"They're so far removed from the Rangers jersey. You used to see opponents look at you as a team and know they'd be in for a game and that they'd probably lose - that fear isn’t there anymore."
McCann is well aware of the impact another year of second-tier football will have on the Ibrox supporters and he also feels the absence of one of the country’s biggest clubs in the Premiership is bad for the game in Scotland.
"It's a massive blow," he said. "Rangers want to get back in the Premiership and I've said many times that I think we need Rangers back in the Premiership, a strong Rangers.
"But they didn’t deserve to be in the Premiership over the course of the play-off final. It's an enormous blow to the fans, they have been very loyal and hugely backed them.
"I heard Stuart McCall say he couldn't have asked for any more but I absolutely disagree - the Rangers players could have given so much more.
"They've been far too weak in defence and have given away cheap goals which they never should be doing with the quality they've got there."
