Steven Davis and Neil McCann are in a two-way fight to become Rangers boss Danny Rohl’s right-hand man in the dugout.
The new Ibrox head coach is looking to add a former player to his coaching staff to work alongside Sascha Lense and Matthias Kaltenbach.
The Rangers board has also put forward possible candidates, including McCann, who impressed when he was an assistant coach to interim boss Barry Ferguson.
Former Ibrox captain Lee Wallace, who is now at Hearts, has also been recommended to Rohl by his former Sheffield Wednesday player Josh Windass.
Davis is currently part of Michael O’Neill’s Northern Ireland backroom team.
Rohl has ruled nothing in or out and has an open mind to any appointment.
The former Sheffield Wednesday boss is currently taking a few days to look at his options, consider all the candidates, where they fit into his backroom team and if they are available.
Rohl, speaking on his appointment, confirmed: “I will try to bring a former Rangers player with a good background here as well because for me it’s important to take this advantage from a guy who knows Rangers, who knows the league, why should I not use this?
“This would be a perfect set up for me.
“I have three or four candidates in mind. I collect the information, I think it’s also important to have the right person to your coaching team but I think at the end we will make a good decision.”
McCann could actually have been in as an assistant if Kevin Muscat had taken the job.
The Ibrox side agreed terms with the Australian but pulled the plug after he refused to leave title chasing Shanghai Port until the end of the Chinese season.
That sequence of events then led to Rangers re-opening dialogue with Rohl.
McCann confirmed that he had a long-standing agreement in place with Muscat.
McCann, speaking to BBC Scotland, confirmed: “All speculation. No one from the club spoke to me about that.
“Kevin is an ex-teammate of mine, yeah, we’ll have discussions that if he was ever going to maybe look at coming to Rangers then he asked me if I would have been part of that set up.
“So, I think everybody put two and two together, but there was never a stage where I was contacted by the club to say, ‘Right, get your suit looked out again from last season, you’re going back in.’”
