Scottish coach and analyst John Walker says Rangers should have appointed Derek McInnes rather than Russell Martin last summer and insists the club face three years of transition under their American owners.
Danny Rohl, who took over from the sacked Martin in October, is to remain in charge after being publicly backed by chairman Andrew Cavenagh despite a third-place Premiership finish and trophyless season.
“I was a big advocate for Russell Martin’s appointment and Rangers going to a more sporting, directing, modern model,” said Rangers fan Walker on the BBC’s Scottish Football Podcast.
“But I don’t think that’ll work at Rangers. If you look at what Hearts did, realistically, new ownership, you should just employ a manager, I hate to say this term, but who knows the league and is a bit more experienced and understands Rangers.
“Probably the man that ended up in the Hearts dugout is the one we should have approached for a safer transition.
“Brighton did the same with Chris Hughton when Jamestown were taking the full reins, that was probably the safer model.
“Rohl represented a bit more of what the pragmatic approach would have been if we’d done that earlier on. I understand that.
“I understand Cavenagh backing him as such, because I think that is the case, they probably look at Rohl behind the scenes more as the type of person they wanted in charge of their club.
“It’s going to be a transition for three years until this ownership group gets it nailed on. We’ve seen that at Leeds and now they’ve got a pretty good successful model running at Leeds.
“We are very impatient, but as long as we can see something, we’ll probably be good, but draw that opening game of next season, everyone’s got the pitchforks again.”