Scottish Gossip: Rangers, Clement, Muscat, Butland, McTominay, Beale, Glasner, Souness, Warnock, Jewell, Jota

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Newly appointed Birmingham City manager Wayne Rooney wants Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland to quit Ibrox and join the ambitious Championship club. (Scottish Sun On Sunday)

Scott McTominay is set to stay at Manchester United for the rest of the season, with manager Erik ten Hag ruling out a January move away for the 26-year-old Scotland midfielder. (Star On Sunday)

Rangers' board is looking to snap up Brighton & Hove Albion head of recruitment Sam Jewell as their new director of football. (Scottish Sun On Sunday)

Tottenham Hotspur are ready to submit a loan offer to take winger Jota and reunite the 24-year-old with manager Ange Postecoglou after the Portuguese was left out of Al-Ittihad domestic squad following his multi-million pound transfer from Celtic. (Fichajes)

Jota has failed in a bid to have his Al-Ittihad contract ripped up, but the Saudi Arabian club's management is considering bringing the former Celtic winger back into their Pro League squad when the winter window opens. (Hi Hi)

Rangers are set to appoint former Club Brugge head coach Philippe Clement as their new manager, with his main rival for the job, Yokohama F Marinos boss Kevin Muscat, having been told he is no longer in the running. (TalkSport)

Rangers' board has made its final decision on Michael Beale's successor and either former Monaco head coach Philippe Clement, who was still in talks with the Ibrox club on Friday afternoon, or Yokohama F Marinos boss Kevin Muscat will be appointed in the next 48 hours. (Sunday Mail)

Rangers are expected to announce their new manager within 36 hours, with an exhaustive interview process now over but with discussions with former Monaco head coach Philippe Clement and Yokohama F Marinos boss Kevin Muscat still ongoing up until Friday morning. (Scottish Sun On Sunday)

The financial packages of both former Monaco head coach Philippe Clement and Yokohama F Marinos boss Kevin Muscat have been thrashed out with Rangers, with the Belgian looking for guarantees over a long-term commitment, transfer market spending power and a healthy eating regime if he is chosen as the club's new manager. (Sunday Mail)

Kevin Muscat put Rangers negotiations to one side to issue a rallying call to his Yokohama F Marinos players ahead of Sunday's J-League Cup semi-final second leg following their 1-0 midweek first-leg win over Urawa Red Diamonds. (Yokohama Express)

Former Eintracht Frankfurt head coach Oliver Glasner, who reportedly put his name forward as a candidate to be Rangers manager, said he finds it "amusing" being linked with the Ibrox club and pointed out that he has an important basketball fact-finding mission to attend in United States next week. (The National On Sunday)

Former Rangers manager Graeme Souness, who is playing a key advisory role in Rangers search for a new team boss, says the top priority for the person appointed is recruitment. (Daily Mail, print edition)

Asked about the Rangers vacancy, much-travelled Neil Warnock, most recently with Huddersfield Town, says he always fancied managing in Scotland, would have liked Heart of Midlothian or Hibernian to see if he could challenge the Old Firm and revealed he once applied for the Aberdeen job but did not get a reply. (Daily Mail)

Michael Beale admits the period after his Rangers sacking has been a "reflective" one, as he outlined on the LinkedIn website his plans to visit Brazil, the United States and Japan in the next couple of months. (Football Scotland)

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