Andy Halliday says the Rangers dressing room was "loving" a bold exchange between Barry Ferguson and Pedro Caixinha during an Ibrox job interview.
The former Rangers skipper was interviewed for a role as first-team coach shortly after Caixinha's arrival at the club. Jonatan Johansson eventually got the job and Ferguson admitted he was actually relieved to miss out given the way his encounter with the Portuguese went.
He told Open Goal: "He was asking about the Scottish game and I start talking about Pittodrie, Tynecastle, Easter Road, Fir Park. Horrible places to go.
"You've got to change. Sometimes you've got to roll your sleeves up and win the battle. He's looking at me and says 'no I play this way and this way only'.
"I said it's not going to operate, that's not going to work at Rangers, and he just looked at me and I thought I've got no chance of this job.
"I'm glad I never got it because you see if I did get it I'd have probably been sacked after three or four weeks. The guy never got what Rangers is all about."
Halliday, who was at Rangers at the time, says rumours were swirling about a comment Ferguson made to Caixinha during the interview.
He added: "See what you said to him, that did the rounds in the dressing room. Everyone was loving it.
"Apparently he said to you 'where do you see yourself in five years' and you said 'in your seat'.
"Everybody loved it. Wait five years? What about five weeks?"
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