Rangers have been told they've made a mistake over Barry Ferguson and have let Brendan Rodgers off the hook.
It was confirmed on Sunday that the former captain would not be handed the Gers job on a permanent basis after leading the team in the interim since Philippe Clement's sacking.
The club have decided to go down a different route and there are several names in the frame, including Carlo Ancelotti's son Davide.
Ferguson had an up-and-down record during his short time in charge but did manage to end the poor home run with wins against Aberdeen and Dundee United.
His record against Celtic was also pretty good - one win and one draw.
John Hughes insists he could see what the 47-year-old was doing with the team and that improvements were being made. So he was shocked to see he wasn't being kept on and reckons Celtic boss Rodgers would've been delighted.
He told the Daily Record: “I went to see Barry at the end of the game because I wanted to tell him how impressed I have been by him over these last few months.
“I told him I wanted him to take the job on and I wasn’t pulling his chain, I was deadly serious.
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“It doesn’t matter if I’m a Hibs or a Celtic man or whatever. If I see right good football I’m man enough to say it. And I’ve certainly seen that over the time that Barry was in there.
“All I’ll say is I think Rangers have missed a real opportunity by letting him leave.
“Anybody in Scotland - anyone that knows football - could see where Rangers were going under Barry.
“I’m not just talking about your daft punter who is only wanting results. I’m talking about anybody that knows football. We can all see exactly what was going on at Ibrox and the improvements that were being made.
“Brendan over the road at Celtic, he would have seen it as well. He would have been thinking to himself, ‘If this guy gets the job we’re going to have a challenge,’.
“I’m sure Brendan will be quietly pleased at the decision they have made.
“He will have felt the same way I do - that Barry deserved it. And I’m not saying that because he’s a born and bred Rangers man, although I do think that helps too.
“I’m just purely talking as a football man.”
Hughes suspects that Ferguson's long association with his boyhood club, who he captained across two spells, is what cost him the job in the end.
The former Inverness and Falkirk boss said: ”I think familiarity breeds contempt. There are Rangers fans who would have been saying, ‘That’s not good enough,’. They all want a big name like a Mourinho. But they’re not seeing what’s right in front of them.
“They should just sit back and have a right good look at the work he’s been doing and listen to the way he talks.
“The guy understands football. He recognised where the team was going wrong and he was fixing it.
“I can see these things being a football guy. And I think they should have given him a year in charge.”
