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Woeful rumour timing this, planted or not.

 

I sort of agree,however these players have been playing with all sort of shit flying around off the pitch for so long now I can't see it affecting anything!

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Brentford manager Mark Warburton a target to replace Stuart McCall as Rangers boss

 

Rangers have sounded out potential move to bring Mark Warburton in

Warburton will leave Brentford following their unsuccessful play-off bid

David Weir has been Warburton's assistant and could return to Ibrox

 

Outgoing Brentford boss Mark Warburton has been sounded out about the possibility of taking over as Rangers manager next season — a move that could facilitate an Ibrox return for former captain David Weir.

 

Weir has operated as Warburton’s assistant for the past 18 months and Brentford’s play-off defeat to Middlesbrough on Friday night has freed the duo to seek alternative employment as the Championship club pursues its surprise decision to implement a new coaching structure.

 

Although it is not yet clear in what division Rangers themselves will be playing in next season, the Ibrox board have tentatively begun the process of speaking to potential candidates for a post that is currently filled by Stuart McCall.

 

It’s understood that Warburton and Weir have been receptive to Rangers’ initial advances and would be willing to formally discuss moving their successful partnership to Glasgow.

 

McCall replaced caretaker Kenny McDowall in March with a mandate to get Rangers promoted from the Championship and that remit has not changed.

 

He still retains hope of landing the job on a permanent basis and will enhance his claims should he see off Queen of the South at Ibrox in Sunday's second leg of the Premiership Play-Off quarter-final.

 

However, responding to reports earlier this week linking MK Dons manager Karl Robinson with the job, McCall admitted that he expected the Rangers board to be widening their options. He said: ‘It’s rightly so that the club will be speaking to other people. You have to bear in mind that our board are new to it and I imagine they would be taking advice.

 

‘I would imagine I would have to go for a formal interview. I don’t think there is any doubt about that.’

 

A one-time Leicester City youth player turned City trader, Warburton had an unconventional route into management, founding the short-lived European youth football tournament the NextGen Series before taking on a youth coaching role at Watford.

 

He initially joined Brentford as sporting director in 2011 and then became manager two years later.

 

Despite turning the Griffin Park club into surprise Premier League promotion candidates, Warburton, 52, was told by owner Matthew Benham in February his services would not be required beyond the summer.

 

Responding to the suggestion that Sunday's match could be his last in charge, McCall said: ‘I can’t allow myself to feel like that because I don’t like negativity creeping in. It’s a fair question but I haven’t given it a thought.

 

‘When I first came into the job, I knew what was being asked of me.’

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3084782/Brentford-manager-Mark-Warburton-target-replace-Stuart-McCall-Rangers-boss.html#ixzz3aLXo95eI

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