The Scottish Sun revealed earlier that Carlos Carvahal he held talks on taking over at Rangers before the club moved for Mark Warburton.
The Portuguese coach is out of work after being sacked by Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea but there was a time he could’ve been at the helm at Ibrox.
Carlos Carvahal claims he met with members of the Ibrox hierarchy in 2015. He said it was a matter of timing which made his choose Sheffield Wednesday. Carvahal said:
“I was in London speaking to the people from Rangers and I was talking to Sheffield Wednesday.
“It was a question of time.
“Sheffield Wednesday came more fast at that moment.”
“But I was very happy and excited to talk with the people from Rangers at that moment.”
A very different path had Rangers taken Carvahal
At the time, Rangers needed stability.
A combination of Mark Warburton and Davie Weir offered that. They, like the last three managers at the club, had to oversee major rebuilding jobs.
Warburton and Weir arrived to much fanfare and set about getting the club to the top division. They duly delivered.
What followed were the arrival of heaps of lower league English players. They could never really handle expectation at Ibrox and Warburton left in difficult circumstances not long afterwards.
Warburton did however manage to beat Celtic. A feat that has evaded Rangers ever since.
Under Carvahal, Rangers would have a more dynamic, European style of play. The players who Rangers brought into the club would’ve been very different too.
It would’ve been a very different path under Carvahal, and it’s hard to say how it would’ve went.
Everything that’s happened before has led us here though. There’s renewed optimism under Steven Gerrard. And Carvahal agrees with it.
“They are in very good hands [with Steven Gerrard]. They are in a very good way also.”
