Glasgow Rangers are wasting no time in their efforts to find a replacement for head coach Danny Rohr, who is set to move to Austrian side RB Salzburg.
The Scottish Premiership giants have reportedly agreed a three-year deal with Hearts head coach Derek McInnes, who led the team to second place in the league in 2025/26.
After signing Laurence Shankland on a permanent deal to strengthen their squad, the Light Blues returned to their league rivals and swooped in for a manager.
This means the Light Blues have poached their top scorer and manager from the team that finished one place higher in the table this season in order to improve their efforts in the title race next season.
McInnes is set to link up with Shankland again, so the Scotland manager should push the club to sign a new winger to support the Scotland international in the final third.
Why Rangers need to sign a new winger this summer
The former Hearts manager deployed Alexandros Kyzyridis on the wing, creating 12 ‘big chances’ and 7.86xA in the 2025/26 Premiership season, giving Shankland plenty of chances at the top end of the pitch.
Kouziridis, who also scored four goals in 38 appearances in the Premiership, provided Jam Tarts with a consistent creative threat and meant the Scottish striker always had quality service to develop from.
Meanwhile, no Rangers winger created more than seven ‘big chances’ in the Premiership in 2025/26, as the Gers struggled to show creativity in a wide range of areas throughout the season.
Rangers had the most “big chances” | |
|---|---|
25/26 Premiership | A big opportunity has arisen |
James Tavanier | 19 |
Nicholas Ruskin | 12 |
Jade Gassama | 7 |
mikey moore | 7 |
Tours Rommens | 5 |
Gassama and Moore together created seven ‘big chances’ for the team, with the latter returning to Tottenham Hotspur after a loan spell, indicating that Rolle did not have a player to match Kyzyridis’ level as a creator.
That’s why the Gers need to tap into the market and add reinforcements in a wide range of departments during the summer transfer window to ensure McInnes has the quality he needs on the wing.
Rangers could sign their own Alexandros Kyzyridis
The Scottish giants have recently been rumored to be interested in signing a star player who could join Ibrox this summer as a new version of the next manager’s Kyzyridis.
Earlier this month, it was reported that the Gers were in talks to potentially bring back Václav Cerny on loan for a second spell at Ibrox for the 2024/25 season.
The Czech international joined Besiktas on loan from Philipp Clement’s Wolfsburg in 2024, before signing a permanent move from Besiktas in a £6m deal last summer, with the team now hoping to bring him back to Glasgow.
Václav Cerny joins Rangers for 24/25 season | |
|---|---|
statistics | Premiership + EL |
begins | 42 |
the goal | 18 |
key pass | 97 |
A big opportunity has arisen | 9 |
assist | 5 |
During his time at Rangers, in the Premiership and Europa League, the left-footed winger created almost 100 chances in 42 starts for the Scottish giants, creating a total of nine ‘big chances’.
In the 2024/25 Premiership, he completed an average of 2.5 key passes per game. No Rangers player in the league this season has averaged more than 2.1 key passes per game, and no winger has averaged more than 1.2 key passes per game.
Like Kouziridis, Cerny is the type of winger who can always be creatively wide-ranging. His teammates know that every time they hand him the ball on the wing, he’s likely to make something happen.
The experienced forward could be MacInnes’ version of a Heartsman, although he is a left-footed right winger rather than a right-footed left winger like the Greek star, but still has the quality to provide in the final third.
Černý also just finished the season in the Turkish Super Lig with Besiktas, starting 25 games and registering five goals and eight assists. This shows that he can adapt to yet another country and league and provide consistent quality.
It could therefore be a dream deal for the former Ibrox loanee to arrive to improve McInnes’ wing options and ensure Shankland has enough support in the final third in next season’s Premiership.
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