Barry Ferguson gets heart-breaking tweet

Barry Ferguson has been given the most brutal put-down with Heart & Hand ruling him out of the assistant manager’s job at Ibrox.

As the club hunt for a glamorous name to take over from Steven Gerrard there has been a parallel search to find a True Blue with experience of management and the Scottish game.

With spells in charge of Clyde, Kelty Hearts and Alloa many of Ferguson’s media friends have been pushing the case to have him fitted out in a top quality Castore trackie.

Despite reports of positive talks held on Saturday it seems that the appointment of Giovanni van Bronckhorst as manager is proving difficult to nail down.

Assurances about a January transfer budget without first having to sell players is likely to be high among the demands of the former Barcelona midfielder.

After running up losses of £23.5m last season it seems that Douglas Park and other directors are reluctant to underwrite that level of losses with a massive rebuild required next summer.

Connor Goldson, Allan McGregor, Steve Davis and Scot Arfield are out of contract in May with Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent in the final 18 months of their deals.