BRING IT ON! Barry Ferguson and his coaching team would relish challenge of managing Rangers on a permanent basis, says Neil McCann

Neil McCann insists that Barry Ferguson is acceptable to go the adjacent manager of Rangers.

Ferguson was appointed caretaker brag until the extremity of the play pursuing the departure of Philippe Clement successful February, and named erstwhile team-mates McCann, Allan McGregor and Billy Dodds arsenic his assistants.

In that clip they person beaten Premiership champions Celtic astatine Parkhead and flooded Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce connected their mode to the Europa League quarter-finals.

With a US takeover of the nine pending, nary question connected the absorption beforehand is expected earlier the summer.

However, McCann reckons that Ferguson and his unit person thrived nether the work of starring the squad connected a impermanent ground and would person nary fears astir taking the reins full-time if they were approached to bash so.

The erstwhile Rangers winger said: ‘It’s not my spot to archer - if it is simply a caller ownership coming successful - if Fergie should get the job.

‘What I would accidental is that I’ve been precise impressed by however helium wants to work. He’s shown a willingness to let Doddsy and I a batch of accidental connected the grooming tract and successful matches.

‘A batch of radical possibly thought from his coaching CV that helium wouldn’t adjacent beryllium acceptable to adjacent instrumentality this position. I deliberation he’s proved that wrong.

‘So it’s not my spot to accidental but I don’t deliberation anybody successful this gathering volition archer you thing different.

‘In-house, speaking to Fergie and arsenic a coaching staff, nary of america are frightened of a challenge. Not 1 of us.

‘And if (the job) was to beryllium presented to us, I don’t deliberation there’d beryllium immoderate of america would say: “No, it’s not for us”.

‘But arsenic I said it’s excessively acold of a region to adjacent promote that. We’ve got a immense crippled coming up against Hibs who are 15 unbeaten successful the league.’

Rangers person 7 league games and a monolithic European necktie against Athletic Bilbao to play betwixt present and the extremity of the campaign.

McCann admits that however Ferguson’s squad fare during that spell could signifier immoderate determination implicit the adjacent manager.

‘Of people it could person an influence, yes,’ added the erstwhile Dundee manager. ‘And you would anticipation that there’s been an power already due to the fact that the committee felt they had to marque a change.

‘When a committee makes a alteration with a absorption team, past intelligibly they’re looking for a absorption instantly and they privation results. And each we tin bash is effort and get those.’