Alan McInally reckons Steven Gerrard 's "brilliant" spell at Ibrox makes him a front-runner when the England job next comes up.
The Kop hero has been touted as Liverpool's next gaffer when Jurgen Klopp eventually departs Anfield but Gerrard was also a stalwart for the national team, winning 114 caps and captaining his country at the World Cup in 2014.
Gareth Southgate currently fills the role and led them to the semi-finals in 2018 but may wish to return to the club game in future.
And McInally looks at Gerrard's dominant Rangers side, who are 19 points clear in the Scottish Premiership while remaining unbeaten in Europe, and feels their journey under the boss has been significant enough that he could be an "inevitability" to one day fill one of the most important posts in English football.
He told Footy Accumulators : “In the bigger picture, we are now saying ‘Okay, he does brilliant at Rangers, has done brilliant at Rangers, looks as though they are going to win the title, does he stay or does he go?
“In terms of where does he go, is the Liverpool job available or do they give him the England job right away?
“It is a wonderful position for Steven to be in.
“I was just thinking when Frank Lampard [was mentioned] there, Frank’s had big money to spent in a league that is obviously naturally a lot stronger than the Scottish Premiership.
“But where he has taken Rangers from, which is not also-rans but not even thought of as if they can possibly compete with Celtic, who looked as though they were just going to go on and win the title for the next three or four years, has completely changed that football club.
“Now, if he can do the same with the next job wherever he goes, then I think you are talking inevitable England manager.
“An inevitability because he just looks as though he has got that Midas touch and that’s what he has had since he has gone to Glasgow.“
