I can handle the job no problem- Furious Ambassador Ferguson prepares to be ousted from the job he craves

Barry Ferguson could barely have looked any more uncomfortable.

Over night the Daily Record had worked itself into a frenzy over Davide Ancelotti becoming the permanent manager at Ibrox, until mid-February Ferguson had been a columnist for the ailing Glasgow publisher.

Throughout the morning every contrived line possible was pushed out to cash in on the excitement associated with Davide’s surname, much like when Ianis Hagi moved to Ibrox five years ago.

Ferguson has a match against Dundee United to prepare for tomorrow night but that was a sideshow as the media messengers tried to keep their excitement to acceptable levels over the imminent arrival of Mister Ancelotti

One thing I will say is that it’s not a project. You need to start winning straight away. That’s it.

You don’t get time here. You’ve got the summer to go and build a new squad, whatever way you want to build it.

You need to go off to a very fast start and you need to make sure you win as many games as possible.

This club is built on winning and we need to start winning. That’s been the issue here and that’s clearly why there’s a number of managers that have lost their jobs over the years.

With three winners medals from over 500 matches James Tavernier proves that you can have a long Ibrox career even as a serial loser.

So Rangers need to get back to challenging and winning trophies. That’s there for everybody to see. I’m not hiding anything and I’m sure that with the changes have been made [the new owners] realise that. The supporters realise that.

Later on, after being asked about Ancelotti Ferguson warned:

I can handle the job, no problem. Everybody’s got their opinion on who’s going to be wanted for the job, or who’s going to get the job.

But this job doesn’t scare me one single bit. I know there’s a hell of a lot of work to be done. I’ve been lucky enough to be in the door and know what’s needed, and I’ve always been clear on that.

I’ll always back myself. If somebody else gets the job, I’ll still support them and I’ll still get behind them from a distance. I’ll go back to hopefully my role I had before.

Will it hurt me? No, I’ll be disappointed. I’d be lying if I’m sitting here and saying otherwise. Yeah, I’ll be disappointed, but do you know what?

I’m a big boy, I’ll get on with it and I’ll move on. And as I said, whoever’s in the job, I hope gets the full support of everybody. Because as I said, this club’s not been successful enough for a number of years.