Rangers are a club in crisis, stumbling around in the dark. McInnes is a manager with a chance to stamp his name into history. It’s no wonder the two won’t be getting together

When Derek McInnes turned down the chance to become Rangers manager back in 2017, it seemed to touch a nerve with senior figures in the Ibrox boardroom.

After being given the knockback by McInnes, Rangers released a club statement which was effectively a thinly-veiled swipe at their former player.

In what was a spectacular PR own goal, the statement drew widespread condemnation from the club’s own supporters and brought the word ‘concomitant’ into the Scottish football lexicon.

Rangers…