Ally McCoist has revealed Rangers by no means truly informed him they weren’t renewing his contract earlier than he left.
The Ibrox legend scored extra targets for the membership than every other participant over 15 years in Govan. McCoist struck 355 occasions in Royal Blue to cement his standing in Gers historical past. His ultimate look got here within the ultimate sport of the 1997/89 season within the Scottish Cup ultimate. The late Walter Smith was departing that summer season together with a bunch of family names that fashioned the bedrock of the heralded nine-in-a-row period.
The hitman got here off the bench within the second half and acquired his aspect again into the sport with a late strike. However the injury had been executed as targets from Colin Cameron and Stephane Adam lastly ended a 36-year trophy drought for the Jambos. Together with the likes of Richard Gough and Ian Durrant, McCoist have been approaching the tip of his time in Royal Blue. Dick Advocaat ’s imminent arrival marked the beginning of a brand new daybreak on the membership that summer season.
However McCoist recalled how he by no means acquired official affirmation that he was to be launched on the finish of his deal. And it is led him to the tongue-in-cheek suspicion that he might have been anticipated to report again for pre-season coaching the next summer season,
“I by no means truly acquired informed I wasn't getting a brand new contract,” McCoist mentioned on TalkSport. “It was 1998 and my final sport was the cup ultimate towards the Hearts.
“Dick Advocaat was coming in and Walter was leaving. It was taken with no consideration that a couple of of the boys can be leaving, and rightly so as a result of it was the tip of that individual period and the beginning of a brand new one.
"Nevertheless, I by no means acquired something in any respect to say: ‘Thanks very a lot however we’re not renewing your providers’ or something like that. Now I’m sitting right here pondering, possibly Dick was anticipating me to show up for pre-season coaching and I by no means turned up!”
McCoist went on to signal for Kilmarnock that summer season. he retired three years later and moved into teaching with Rangers beneath Smith earlier than ultimately taking the highest job at Ibrox.
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