Walter Smith and Billy Davies would be the "dream team" at Rangers, according to former Scotland manager Craig Brown.
Ally McCoist's three-and-a-half year reign as Ibrox boss came to an end on Sunday night after the Championship club confirmed he had been put on garden leave.
Assistant manager Kenny McDowall will take over until the end of the season but former Nottingham Forest manager Davies, who worked with Brown at Preston and Derby, is odds-on with some bookmakers to become the next permanent Gers boss.
However, Brown believes that former Rangers and Scotland manager Smith, 66, who followed Graeme Souness's two successive league titles with seven more to equal Celtic's record of nine in a row during his first spell as boss in the 1990s, is the man the beleaguered Light Blues' board should turn to first, with Davies a more than able assistant.
Speaking in Glasgow at the screening of BBC Alba's new documentary, Tartan Pride, as a stormy Rangers AGM was taking place a few miles away at Ibrox, he said: "I would bring back Walter Smith.
"I would go and plead with Walter and say to him, 'Walter you have had ups and downs here but you are the man for Rangers.'
"I would knock Walter's door down until he said he would do it for three years although Walter wouldn't do it unless he was happy with what was happening (at the club).
"I think Billy would countenance being number two to Walter. That would be a dream team for Rangers in my opinion.
"Billy Davies is outstanding as a football manager.
"England has been a hard shift for a lot of managers from Scotland, they have found it difficult but Billy has been successful.
"He has proven himself to be able to manage at the top level. He has managed Preston, Derby and Nottingham Forest and on every occasion he has been successful.
"Billy is excellent on the training ground, in team meetings, in the dressing (room) and his knowledge of the game - I have the highest regards for him as a football exponent."
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