Could Glasgow Rangers legend and current Assistant Coach Ally McCoist be next in line to fill the vacated Sunderland job after Roy Keane’s departure last week, the same team he played for between 1981 – 1983?

Hopefully not if you’re asking current Rangers striker Kenny Miller who McCoist has tutored daily.

Via DailyMail

‘No one at the club would want Ally to leave, including the chairman and manager,’ said Miller.

‘From a player’s point of view, everyone definitely loves working with him. As much as we work hard, we can have a good laugh as well. But Ally is not in football to have a laugh. He has been assistant manager at Scotland and now with Rangers. He is in this to make a career for himself in management, there’s no doubt about that.

‘You don’t go through all the badges and qualifications you need if that is not your end goal. It’s far from a laugh for him – it’s serious stuff and especially so back here at Rangers. This is where his heart is and he wants this club to be successful. If he can play a part in that, then it will be great.’

Miller insisted the money Sunderland are able to throw at managers still did not make them comparable with Rangers.

‘Is Rangers a much bigger job? Of course it is,’ he said.

‘Every managerial job is tough. But, when you are the manager of Rangers, there is this pressure to win every single game you play in. That’s probably different to anywhere else.

‘If you play down south and you are with a Wolves, a Derby or an Everton – as the manager here once was – then getting a draw at Sunderland or Tottenham away is a good point. But at Rangers, you have to win those games. It was a disaster for us when we lost at Hearts a couple of weeks ago.

‘But I don’t think Coisty feels the pressure more because of his background at the club. He is doing his job by helping the manager in trying to make this team successful.’

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