Alex McLeish Quotes

"Making the last 16 was a great achievement, but it isn't enough. We're not going to look at where we are and think we've done well and that we should be satisfied to leave it at that. We want very much to progress to the quarter-finals of the tournament."

"We should have taken all three points, without a doubt. It's ridiculous that I am standing here talking about dropping two points."

"Over the last couple of years we have made contact with the top agents in the Czech Republic, for example,"

"We have been looking at other countries - Bulgaria and Hungary, for example - but we have to make sure that these players are able to come to a club like Rangers, where the expectations are so high, and hit the ground running. It is easier for players to go to places like Hearts, for example, where the expectations and pressures are not so great."

"Fernando will now be brought back into the squad. We can rely on his experience. He has played in every round and is available to us."

"We played well on a horrendous surface and my only criticism is that we didn't score as many as we should have done. He had it manipulated last week and it was painful, but I hope that talk of an operation is premature."

"It's a real test but I don't fear it. I was a little bit uneasy and a little bit in limbo because it was a case of you must win this one or that one."

"It is time to move on and I decided that, with my family, last summer. I told the chairman at the beginning of the season that I felt this would be my last campaign. It is a demanding job but I would not have changed anything about it. Am I sad? No. We are turning this into a soap opera. Managers come and go but the well-being of Rangers is the most important thing."

"That match was really the birth of the real European Aberdeen team, against a high quality Ipswich side."

"That match was really the birth of the real European Aberdeen team, against a high quality Ipswich side,"

"We are fortunate to have two terrific goalkeepers and competition for a specialist position,"

"Our efforts were fantastic. We can play better, but the spirit, determination and passion were there... We're still alive."

"We were so close to getting one of the greatest ever results in the club's history."

"I hope it doesn't spread any further or we have real problems."

"I am quite disappointed at scoring two goals away from home, playing as well as we did, and not winning,"

"If Peter keeps scoring goals he is going to give us a headache in terms of what his demands would be if he was to stay."

"We lost a couple of sloppy goals, which we can improve on, but many aspects of our play were much better than the game at Inverness."

"I was very pleased for Dado because he is still searching for peak fitness after his injury, and he enjoyed those two strikes. No matter what age a striker is, they always thrive on scoring goals and today's performance will do his confidence no harm."

"It's been a tough week, that's an understatement, but it has been a hard week but there is nothing you can do about it."

"On the question of playing three at the back, it's something we haven't done and it's not the kind of thing you would normally spring on them for an important European tie. It could be a way of setting traps for myself, leaving myself open to criticism if it doesn't work."