John Brown has revealed that he urged Rangers to sign Jamie Vardy after scouting him in 2011.
The Ibrox legend watched the now-veteran striker while he was playing for Fleetwood Town over a decade ago.
Brown was working as a scout for his former club at the time and urged them to make a move for Vardy, but it never came to fruition.
"What I saw from him in the first game, I phoned Ally McCoist and said, ‘I’m not putting the report in, in case somebody leaks it'," revealed Brown on the Let Me Be Frank podcast.
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"I’m not joking, he’s as close to Ian Rush. He harasses defenders, he runs the channels. I was looking at the Celtic defence at the time and I said, 'If you get this Vardy, that’s the difference'.
"Coisty [Ally McCoist] went to speak to [Craig] Whyte and nothing happened.
"I said to [chief scout] Neil [Murray] what’s the point in doing this, we’re not going to put in offers for anybody and it just snowballed from there.
"If there’s one player that we never got in the door that would have made such a difference, it would have been him.
"And it took 18 months before he signed for Leicester City."
Vardy now plies his trade for Serie A outfit Cremonese. He scored 200 goals in 500 Leicester appearances.
The 38-year-old was linked with a move to Ibrox in the recent summer transfer window.
