{"id":1028946,"date":"2026-06-15T22:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1028946\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:44:17","slug":"andy-halliday-rates-hearts-boss-derek-mcinnes-as-smart-rangers-pick-to-succeed-danny-rohl-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1028946\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Halliday rates Hearts boss Derek McInnes as smart Rangers pick to succeed Danny Rohl \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Halliday reckons Rangers<\/a> have landed on their feet by upgrading their manager while also making a profit as they prepare to replace Danny Rohl with Derek McInnes.<\/p>\n

Gers are set to receive around \u00a32 million in compensation from Austrian club RB Salzburg for 37-year-old Rohl, who has struggled to win over sections of the support since taking charge last October.<\/p>\n

The Ibrox club are only having to pay a six-figure fee to Hearts to replace the German with 54-year-old McInnes, who went within minutes of leading the Jambos to a first league title in 66 years last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you offered me that Rangers would make a profit and swap their manager from Danny Rohl to Derek McInnes, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a Rangers fan in world football that wouldn\u2019t have taken it,\u201d former Gers midfielder Halliday told the BBC\u2019s Scottish Football Podcast.<\/p>\n

\"Derry<\/a>\"Montpellier<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think Danny Rohl was going to be under immense pressure at the start of the season and it would have been quite possible that Rangers would have had to pay money to relieve him of his duties very early on into the season, and it\u2019s so happened that they\u2019ve managed to make a profit and get another manager under their belt.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, they\u2019re bringing in a manager, not a coach, not a young, promising coach. They\u2019re bringing in a manager with a proven track record in Scottish football.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve said it so often, to be the manager of Rangers \u2013 or Celtic, for that matter \u2013 you have to be a lot more than just a young, promising coach. I think Derek McInnes ticks a lot of boxes for Rangers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s exciting times. We wondered if we could get even half of how crazy last season was and I think before the season has even started, we\u2019re already getting some cracking headlines, it\u2019s got to be said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve already got one eye on that first Old Firm game next season with Martin O\u2019Neill in the Celtic dugout and Derek McInnes in the Rangers dugout. It could be fireworks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pundit and former Hibernian and Celtic player Scott Allan believes RB Salzburg\u2019s approach for Rohl has spared Rangers a potential repeat of last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do feel how Rangers performed in the split and a lot of the tactical decisions that Danny Rohl made in the split, I felt like down the line if he wasn\u2019t to start well when the Premiership season started off, I think he would have been under immense pressure early doors,\u201d said Allan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Rangers can afford to have that same sort of start to the season that they did last year with Russell Martin.<\/p>\n

\u201cDerek McInnes, when you\u2019re taking about Scottish Premiership football, is a safe pair of hands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Halliday reckons Rangers have landed on their feet by upgrading their manager while also making a profit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1028947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,94,918,4884,5074,712,53757,16,15],"class_list":["post-1028946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-glasgow","tag-britain","tag-football","tag-glasgow","tag-great-britain","tag-rangers","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-football","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116756550152948354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}