It was disappointing that Ross Wilson knocked back the director of football job at Rangers, and I know the board have said they will take a long-term approach to finding the right person for the job.

Personally though, I think the perfect man that fits the bill is staring them right in the face. For me, it has to be Alex McLeish.

I would look for somebody who has been at the club and done a turn for the club. Alex has been the manager, he knows the type of players that are needed to get Rangers going, not only on the park but off it as well.

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He knows that Rangers need leaders in the side, that’s what they lack, and if Pedro Caixinha needs any advice on any aspect of being the Rangers manager, then who better to talk to than Alex?

He has been there in the good times and the bad as the Rangers gaffer, so he is one of the few who knows exactly what it is like to deal with the unique challenges that the job presents.

In my book, he has everything required. Not only would he be a good sounding board for Caixinha coming into such a different environment than he has been used to, but he is a sound judge of a player.

He’s 58 years of age now, and I think if the club were to approach Alex with the remit of coming in and helping Caixinha out and identifying the players to bring in then he would jump at the chance.

Any manager coming into Ibrox, particularly from abroad, has to quickly be able to handle everything that comes with being at a club like Rangers.

You know you are going to get full houses every week, home and away, and with that comes great scrutiny. The pressure is always on you, two defeats on the trot and it’s a crisis, and people have got to know about that and be prepared to handle that criticism when it comes.

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You can be the best manager in the world, but if you can’t accept criticism from the fans and the media, then don’t come to Rangers Football Club, it’s as simple as that.

In that regard, I hope that everyone at Rangers will get behind Pedro Caixinha now, and that means from the terraces to the boardroom.

There’s no point in bringing in the man if he is not going to get the funds required to put his own mark on the playing squad.

The due diligence has now been done, the board have bided their time, and I am in no doubt that Caixinha was their number one choice. If they had wanted anyone else, he would have been in by now.

Ally McCoist was 100% correct when he said that it is all about investment now for next season, because the bottom line is that Rangers need better players.

That’s why it is great to get Caixinha in before the end of the season, because he’s going to see a lot of matches and that will give him an idea of who he wants and who he doesn’t want.

A couple of months into next season, after he has brought his own players in and his own style of play, then you can maybe judge how he is doing.

But for the time-being it is all about letting the man assess what he has and then backing him to improve the team and deliver what we all want, a competitive Rangers side.

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If he can overhaul Aberdeen and claim second place then great, he’ll have done a fantastic job right away, but fans have got to be patient and allow him the chance to put his own stamp on the team.

This is not his squad of players, he has inherited them, and you judge him when he has brought his own players in and has had time to work with them.

Money is crucial for the long-term though, and to be fair, Stewart Robertson has said that they are going to back the new man with money, but how much would be the next question.

Rangers certainly need a good few players that are better than what they have there at the minute. That’s no disrespect to those players, these lads are trying their best, but it’s just not working out for them. Rangers need players from a decent level, not guys from League One or League Two down south.

The manager can only do that once the season is finished, and I’m sure he will be using his contacts in Portugal and further afield to work on next season from the minute he arrives.

From the fans’ perspective, people might say ‘what has he done? What is his pedigree?’ But that doesn’t matter. He’s coming into the club and they have got to give him a chance and they have got to give him time to get it right.

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Not many supporters had heard of players like Jorg Albertz or Giovanni van Bronckhorst when they came to the club, and now they are legends, and managers are the same.

Everyone has to get their big break somewhere, and it could well turn out that Caixinha is the best thing that could have happened to the club.

I can imagine the fans saying that they hoped for Derek McInnes to be manager or someone else with a grasp of what Scottish football is all about and what Rangers are all about.

But with Pedro Caixinha as manager and Alex McLeish as director of football they could have the best of both worlds.