By Kieran Maguire

11th Oct, 2023 | 6:21am

Kieran Maguire reveals reason Rangers won't be appointing 'excellent' Graham Potter - 'it's his personality'

Graham Potter is a ‘bad fit’ for the Rangers job because he requires time to implement his managerial style.

That is the view of finance expert Kieran Maguire, who exclusively told Football Insider that Rangers would need to be ‘patient’ if they chose Potter to succeed Michael Beale.

Beale was sacked by the Glasgow Giants last Monday (2 October) following a poor run of results in the Scottish Premiership and Europe League.

The former QPR boss had only been at Rangers for 10 months before being dismissed from his position at the club.

As revealed by Football Insider, Rangers have not given up hope of luring Potter to Ibrox to replace Beale as manager.

The former Chelsea and Brighton manager has been out of a job since being sacked by the Blues in April.

Maguire believes Potter’s wage demands wouldn’t be an issue for Rangers, but insists that he is not the right profile of manager to help Rangers catch Celtic in a short space of time.

“If Graham Potter gets Rangers into the Champions League then his wages would immediately be justified,” Maguire told Football Insider’s Sean Fisher.

“But if you’re going to employ Graham Potter, then you need to be patient.

“We’ve seen at Brighton that it took him two seasons to change the culture of the club.

“In Glasgow, two weeks is a long time. Never mind two years.

“So I just don’t think he would be the right person for the club.

“Graham Potter is an excellent coach, there’s no doubting that.

“But as a fan of a club that he’s managed, I’m not sure that his personality traits, which are sort of very measured and reserved, would necessarily go down well with the Rangers fans.

“So I think it’s a bad fit in terms of manager and the club.“

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