51 league clean sheets: Pundit hints Rangers could replace McGregor with 'phenomenal' stopper

Ex-Rangers midfielder Barry Ferguson has suggested St Johnstone’s Zander Clark as a potential replacement if Allan McGregor leaves the club at the end of the season. 

McGregor, who turned 40 at the end of January, is out of contract at the end of the current campaign.

At the start of the season, Steven Gerrard rotated his ‘keepers, handing chances to Jon McLaughlin and Robby McCrorie, but McGregor has now started every league game since Halloween.

The Athletic’s Jordan Campbell recently wrote that he was expected to depart Ibrox in the summer, along with Connor Goldson and Steven Davis.

Significantly, Clark is also set to be free agent in five months’ time, meaning Rangers could snap him up on a free.

A report from The Daily Record in November revealed that The Gers were ‘closely’ monitoring the 29-year-old.

Speaking on the Go Radio Football Show (via Glasgow World), Ferguson said he’d like to see McGregor stay for another year, but backed Jon McLaughlin and Clark to be able successors.

“Jon McLaughlin is a really good backup keeper, I really like him,” he said.

“Zander Clark is another, St Johnstone have had a poor season but Zander is still performing at a high level.

“I’d like him to stay. He’s old enough to make his own mind up but I still think there’s football left in Allan McGregor.”

While he can’t compete with McGregor, who’s played more than 400 times for Rangers, Clark does at least have plenty of experience.

He’s one short of 150 games in the Scottish top flight, and he’s kept an impressive 51 clean sheets along the way – that ratio of 0.34 is not far off McGregor’s top flight ratio of 0.46, when considering the quality of the squads they are playing in.

It also bodes well that Steve Clark has called him up to