Alex McLeish Quotes

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

"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."

"The lads have shown tremendous spirit despite our problems this season. We played a very good side. At half-time I thought we might go out and lose our discipline and get picked off."

"T here is pressure on everyone here to perform and there has to be collective responsibility. We have to get going and start playing the way we can with the experienced guys we have here."

"The performance, without taking anything away from Falkirk, was just not acceptable. I am surprised and very, very disappointed by the poor performance of the players. It's as disappointed as I have been since coming to Rangers but we take collective responsibility and it is up to me to gets things right."

"I asked the players for a performance tonight and I felt the players played well. We needed a wee bit of luck. Did we deserve a point? I thought the performance was terrific but whether we deserved a point is for others to decide."

"We want to try to reward the guys who did so well the other night with the same team if we can. We have a couple of niggles but we would hope to have the same bunch."

"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."

"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,"

"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."

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

"We don't shout from the rooftops after this victory, there is a long, long way to go,"

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

"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."

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

"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'm extremely proud of the players' performance."