ALLY McCoist is still hopeful of bringing Kenny Miller back to Rangers.
The Ibrox manager has not given up his pursuit of the 33–year-old and contact has continued between the club and Miller's representatives over recent weeks.
Miller will earn £730,000 this season from Vancouver Whitecaps in Major League Soccer, according to figures released by the league itself earlier this week. His salary is almost 10-times that of the average MLS player as he is one of the "designated" signings at Vancouver under the MLS's two-tier salary structure.
The only prospect of him returning to Rangers would be if he agreed to take a massive pay cut, but McCoist is hopeful that Miller may agree to that because of his desire to return to Scotland and the fact he is already financially comfortable at the end of a long career with several lucrative moves.
It had seemed there was no prospect of Miller being lured back to Rangers because former chief executive Charles Green would not sanction a high wage being paid for a player who would have no resale value because of his age.
Green told McCoist he wanted the club to sign younger players who could be sold on at profit in the final year of their contracts, whereas the manager has been desperate to bring experienced players into his squad to steer the younger players and provide the spine of a team to rise through the leagues.
Although Green has yet to formally leave the club he is no longer actively serving as a director and has been replaced as chief executive, on an interim basis, by Craig Mather. McCoist has urged Mather to take an entirely different view of Rangers' prospective signings to the one adopted by Green.
Dundee United's Jon Daly and Nicky Law of Motherwell could also be on their way to Rangers along with Queen of the South's Nicky Clark.
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