David Weir today revealed that he will keep on playing next season – although he doesn't know if it will be with Rangers.

The 41-year-old turned out 57 times in Gers' SPL and League Cup double season, but is now out of contract.

He will hold talks with new boss Ally McCoist, but admitted: "I will definitely be playing on somewhere.

"I want to go into coaching or management at some point but, for the moment, I would prefer to concentrate on playing.

"I will keep my options open. I can't sit here and say I definitely want to stay at Rangers because circumstances at the club have changed.

"The club has a new owner and a new manager. They might have different ideas. It would be unfair for me to say I want to stay when the circumstances might not be right."

Meanwhile, McCoist believes Walter Smith doesn't just deserve to be ranked alongside the greatest Rangers managers of all-time – he should be considered one of the best-ever Scottish bosses, too.

The new Ibrox gaffer thinks that taking his haul of trophies to 21 in two different spells in charge of the Ibrox club puts Smith alongside this country's greatest-ever coaches.

He said: "We have had some wonderful managers at Rangers going all the way back to Bill Struth.

"But history will look back on Walter's achievements here as comparable with anything.

"I make no apologies for being biased, but I would also say he is up there with the greatest Scottish managers of all-time in terms of his success.

"Whether it's Shankly, Ferguson, Stein or Busby, they are all wonderful men and I think he is of that ilk."