Rangers fans will welcome McInnes move - Halliday

Andy Halliday believes supporters of his former club, Rangers, will be in favour of the prospect of Derek McInnes coming in to replace head coach Danny Rohl.

German Rohl has been heavily linked with RB Salzburg and Hearts' McInnes with Rangers.

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McInnes played for Rangers in the late 1990s and joined Hearts - his fifth club as a manager - last summer, leading the Tynecastle side to a runners-up place in the Scottish Premiership.

And Halliday told the BBC's Scottish Football Podcast: "If you offered me that Rangers would make a profit and swap their manager from Danny Rohl to Derek McInnes, I don't think there's a Rangers fan in world football that wouldn't have taken it.

"Danny was going to be under immense pressure at the start of the season and it would have been quite possible that Rangers would have had to pay money to relieve him from his duties very early on into the season.

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"It's so happened that they've managed to make a profit and get another manager under their belt and for me they're bringing in a manager, not a coach, not a young promising coach, they're bringing in a manager with a proven track record in Scottish football.

"Derek McInnes ticks a lot of boxes for Rangers. It's exciting times."

On McInnes' impact at Hearts and the influence of investor Tony Bloom, former Celtic and Hibernian player Scott Allan said: "That just gives Tony Bloom the bit between his teeth. That makes him even more determined.

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"To be right in amongst it and in the Scottish Premiership this season, he's felt the atmosphere of the ground.

"The key word was resilience, that is something Hearts showed in abundance as a team first and foremost last year.

"I feel Tony Bloom goes out and goes, 'OK, what have we got next?' And he'll look to really strengthen Hearts this year."

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