Source: Team_Talk
McCoist shrugs off transfer woe
Ally McCoist insists he will not lose any sleep over players who opt for the Championship over a move to Rangers.[LNB] The Ibrox boss has already lost out on a couple of signing targets as he prepares for his first season at the helm.[LNB]Crystal Palace midfielder Neil Danns on Monday agreed a move to Leicester despite interest from the Scottish champions, while another target, Craig Conway, opted for Cardiff.[LNB]McCoist said: "It's life. There is no point worrying about things you can't have an effect on and that's one of the things we can't have an effect on.[LNB]"If players want to go to the Championship rather than come to us, I don't have a problem with it, I really don't.[LNB]"It's a little bit of a disappointment but we just need to move on and that's that."[LNB]On lack of signings so far, he added: "I wouldn't say I'm frustrated because I realise that most situations can be very delicate.[LNB]"I realise that probably the majority of boys that you go for, you won't get.[LNB]"You have to accept that in management and you have to have back-up plans and we've got back-up plans and we've got targets.[LNB]"Although sometimes it can be a little bit of a disappointment and a wee bit frustrating, I'm not overly frustrated because it's something that I expected to happen."[LNB]Carlos Cuellar, Kyle Bartley, David Goodwillie and Lee Wallace all remain on McCoist's wanted list.[LNB]But one player who appears unlikely to seal a return to Rangers is Kris Boyd, who had a loan spell at Nottingham Forest last season following his move to Middlesbrough.[LNB]McCoist said: "It's not something we have spoken about to be honest."[LNB]Meanwhile, Rangers' new director of football Gordon Smith insists there is no problem between himself and Allan McGregor.[LNB]Smith was chief executive of the Scottish Football Association when McGregor, along with Barry Ferguson, was banned from the Scotland team following the "Boozegate" affair.[LNB]The goalkeeper has since returned to the national team under Craig Levein.[LNB]Smith said: "One of the first people I met here last week was Allan McGregor.[LNB]"We were chatting away and I said to him that it had been brought up in the newspapers about the Boozegate thing.[LNB]"It was an SFA board decision and we had to go along with that.[LNB]"It was also a board decision - but I was the one who proposed it - that any new manager coming in had the option and the freedom to select whoever he wanted.[LNB]"That's what happened. When Craig Levein came in, he tried to bring back Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor.[LNB]"There is no problem at all in terms of my relationship with the players."[LNB]
