Ally McCoist will forever be remembered by Celtic fans as the manager that rinsed Newco Rangers.
Taking charge of the new club in 2012, McCoist happily dragged Rangers from the Scottish Third Division in the Championship at a cost of £800,000 per year to the club that now plays out of Ibrox. That gave Celtic fans a right good laugh.
But what was even funnier was McCoist’s inability to take his multi-million pound squad out of Scotland’s second-tier only to get battered by Motherwell in the play-offs when he was the man in charge at the DeadCo club. That really was a sad state of affairs for him.
Anyway, with Celtic now Scotland’s most successful club and Hoops manager Brendan Rodgers on his way to another treble, McCoist has just embarrassed himself with his latest comments about the Bhoys gaffer.
Ally McCoist tips Brendan Rodgers to leave Celtic
Rodgers has admitted that he is happier now at Celtic than at any other time during his first tenure in Paradise, so for McCoist to suggest this reeks of nothing more than bitterness and desperation.
McCoist told talkSPORT Bet, “I think he could. Yeah, of course he could. But then again, he’s probably quite happy where he is at this moment in time. He hasn’t got any real competition, let’s be honest about it.
“And by the way, that’s not his fault. That’s not his problem, because his team are effectively doing the business, you know against everybody, in a matter that he’ll be delighted with. So, the lack of competition is evident, but it’s certainly not Rodgers or Celtic’s problem.
“It’s up to himself if he wants to hang around, and I think he’d be fairly confident of hanging around and dominating for the foreseeable future, and he deserves enormous credit for the performances in Europe.
“They’ve recovered well after the pasting by Dortmund. They changed the way they played, getting a brilliant draw in Italy, and had one of their better performances in years against RB Leipzig, and against Bayern Munich.
“He could be tempted away because it’s happened before, and his stock is very, very high because of what he’s achieved. But I’m not so sure that it’ll happen in the immediate future because he’s happy with his current team and will want another crack at the Champions League.”
Brendan Rodgers will be going nowhere for foreseeable future and, unluckily for McCoist, the Celtic boss is going to dominate this season and next as his old club flounders from one manager to the next.
