Due to his experience and success in Scottish football, and playing history with Rangers, McInnes has often been talked about as a potential manager for the club.<\/p>\n
He rejected the chance to become manager once before, opting to stay at Aberdeen back in 2017. That was during a time when Rangers were toiling as a club and the Pittodrie side were Celtic’s main challengers. <\/p>\n
But it might be an equally big job for the Ibrox hierarchy to persuade him to leave Hearts nine years on, given his historic first season at Tynecastle.<\/p>\n
They were minutes away from a first league title since 1960 before succumbing to a late defeat by Celtic, who clinched the Premiership crown.<\/p>\n
Before Rohl took charge in October, McInnes was asked about the vacancy but was clear he was committed to Hearts, even before their remarkable title tilt went into overdrive.<\/p>\n
“I love it here,” he said. “It’s been a long time for me coming here. I always thought this was a job that I wanted to be at. I’m working with some good people. <\/p>\n
“I mentioned a few there, the support from [sporting director] Graeme Jones and the board, but the players have been first class in terms of their efforts day in and day out, and, I think for us, we feel we can be successful here, we really do.”<\/p>\n
McInnes has a strong relationship with Jones, and given the backing from Tony Bloom and his data analytics company it would be hard to walk away from a job.<\/p>\n
Particularly with Hearts entering Champions League qualifiers next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Due to his experience and success in Scottish football, and playing history with Rangers, McInnes has often been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}