Rangers icon Ally McCoist reckons "brilliant" Brendan Rodgers will be factoring in the acrimony which followed his Celtic exit before saying yes to a return.
The 50-year-old left his adoring Parkhead audience floored when he hastily exited in 2019 for Leicester City. But a reunion is in the offing with the Irishman set for a face-to-face meeting with Parkhead supremo Dermot Desmond in London. It comes after Record Sport revealed the club's principal shareholder has contacted Rodgers directly twice over succeeding Ange Postecoglou.
McCoist is under no doubt Rodgers remains a top operator, however, he believes the former Foxes boss will be asking himself if a return to Glasgow's east end is the right call after the circumstances which followed his previous exit. Speaking to talkSPORT, the Ibrox hero said: "He'd be brilliant. I think Brendan is a great coach. The only thing I would say is there is a good section of the Celtic support who weren't happy when he left and they think the manner he left in wasn't acceptable.
"I would think that would come into Brendan Rodgers' thoughts, I don't care what anybody says, it would come into Brendan's thoughts. Listen, I heard Martin O'Neill talking, if Brendan went back there and they start winning games of football and start winning trophies. That is the most important thing."
And McCoist was in a jovial mood as he was finally able to have a laugh over the pronunciation of former boss Postecoglou's name. The Rangers legend admitted he resisted the urge when Spurs hero Clive Allen found himself in bother with it, but wasted no time in setting radio producer Sam Ellard on how to say the Tottenham manager's surname.
He added: "You've got at least two more vowels and a consonant in there. It's Postecoglou, by the way. Last week we couldn't keep our faces straight, Clive had about eight goes at it. He's a right nice fella and we couldn't say to him. We got caught on the camera laughing."
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