Source: Team_Talk
McCoist hopeful over Davis deal
Ally McCoist is hopeful Steven Davis will follow Allan McGregor and Steven Whittaker and be the next player to pledge his future to Rangers.[LNB] Light Blues keeper McGregor penned a new six-year deal while defender Whittaker has signed up for five and McCoist is keen for Davis - in the final year of his contract - to extend his stay in Govan.[LNB]McCoist, who is expected to announce Spanish midfielder Juan Manuel Ortiz as his first new signing since becoming Ibrox boss, told RangersTV: "Hopefully Steven Davis will follow Allan and Steven.[LNB]"I don't want to tempt fate but contract negotiations are continuing with Steven and his representatives and I would be very hopeful that we could get something organised with Steven as well.[LNB]"He certainly comes into the same category as Allan and Steven.[LNB]"He has been a top player for us and instrumental in the spine of the side.[LNB]"I'm thrilled that Allan and Steven have signed new deals with the club that keeps them with us for a long time.[LNB]"They are smashing lads and great players who have been part of the success that we have been lucky enough to enjoy in the last three years and hopefully there is more to come.[LNB]"There were clubs looking at both players and that was not a surprise because they are valuable assets to the club.[LNB]"When you have players of their quality then they do attract interest from elsewhere.[LNB]"They had to weigh up their options and they had important decisions to make.[LNB]"I think we all feel - and they do too - that they have made the right ones.[LNB]"It was well documented that Bursaspor were after Steven and there were one or two clubs sniffing about Allan which is no surprise because he has been nothing short of sensational in the last few seasons."[LNB]McCoist spent time in South America over the summer checking on targets and returned believing that he has an excellent core of players at Ibrox already.[LNB]He said: "I was in Argentina over the summer watching about eight or nine games and I saw some good teams and some good players.[LNB]"But the best thing to come out of the trip was that it reinforced my belief that we have some very good players at this club.[LNB]"Sometimes you look about but the grass is not always necessarily greener on the other side."[LNB]Rangers head to Germany on Wednesday for an eight-day training camp which will also involve games against Sportfreunde Lotte on Thursday, Bochum on Saturday and then Bayer Leverkusen on July 13.[LNB]McCoist said: "We are off and running. It doesn't seem so long ago that we were dancing about Rugby Park and then at Ibrox but that's history now.[LNB]"We have to go and retain the championship.[LNB]"We are off to Germany and it's a place that has been very good to us in the past. "The facilities are very good, the games are ideal and the people are great."
