Brendan Rodgers' Celtic return should delight Rangers as Michael Beale can go toe to toe with him - Barry Ferguson

It looks like Brendan Rodgers is about to become the new manager of Celtic and if Rangers have anything about them they will be absolutely delighted.

Why? Because to become the best you have to beat the best and for my money, Rodgers is the best man Celtic could have appointed to replace Ange Postecoglou. Look, I said a couple of weeks ago that I was disappointed that Postecoglou had left for Spurs. I wanted him to stay at Celtic and was looking forward to seeing how Michael Beale carried the fight to him next season. I had no doubt that Rangers would go toe to toe with them.

So, in that respect nothing has changed. Rodgers will come in with his reputation as an elite manager intact despite suffering a difficult season with Leicester last season. Don't forget he still won them an FA Cup and had two top six finishes with them since leaving Celtic back in 2019.

He nearly won the league with Liverpool and built a really strong reputation at Swansea before that, so he is top class, no question. He is inheriting a very good squad from Postecoglou and will no doubt be given a more than decent budget to enhance it.

But does that mean Rangers should fear them? Not if it's the Rangers I know. And certainly that wouldn't have been the feeling inside Ibrox when I was there and a new gaffer was coming in across the city.

Beale's team will be looking forward to the challenge and let's face it, if Rodgers is back working in Scotland, the profile of our game down south will rocket again, just as it did when he and Steven Gerrard were going head to head in 2018 and 2019. That can only be good for Scottish football.

Rangers have been gearing up for the new campaign by getting their signing work done early and I don't think Beale