Former boss Alex McLeish has revealed he left Rangers because of a lack of cash to spend on players. McLeish - now manager of Birmingham - spent four-and-a-half years at Ibrox and won all three domestic trophies before parting company with the club in 2006.

Speaking in an interview to be shown on BBC ALBA on Saturday night, McLeish said: "At the end of my Rangers career, David and I had a man-to-man chat about it and I said something has to happen, either you give me funds and I continue or I go and the players get a new face, they probably need a change - something needs to change.

"And because there wasn't the embarrassment of riches that perhaps there was in the past, we shook hands and I agreed to go, and it is a new chapter."

McLeish was succeeded by Paul Le Guen, who infamously lasted just 200 days before being replaced by current manager Walter Smith.