Rangers boss Walter Smith unsure over future

Rangers manager Walter Smith has admitted his future at the Scottish giants is in doubt, as the club searches for new owners.

Rangers are in a prime position to claim the treble in May but the 62-year-old admits feeling "trepidation" over his retirement and does not want to regret leaving too soon.

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Amid club debts of around £30 million, the Scot’s future may be out of his own hands and could be decided by whoever takes the club over.

"People keep asking me if I will be leaving and the truth is that I don't know because no-one knows what is going to happen with the club," Smith told radio station Clyde 1 on Tuesday.

"A lot will depend on what is happening at the club and my own mindset.

"There is a little bit of trepidation about saying I'm going to finish because I am enjoying it. I have no incapacity stopping me doing anything.

"There is still a lot of football to be played and it's like everything else - if you finish on a successful spell everyone says 'well, you should leave on a high'. I am not of that mind.

"Whatever happens it will not be a case of going out on a high, it will be if the time is right.

"If Rangers get new owners it could maybe be that they don't want you, or I could say, new owners, new start and they need the freshness of a different management team."

"I genuinely don't know what I am going to do," Smith added. "I was walking in before the Old Firm game a few weeks ago at 11am and I was asking myself, as the nerves got to me, why I was doing this.

"Then you get a last-minute goal and you remember what the reason is for doing it.

"I think the feeling when you lose a game is worse than it has ever been and you don't quite get the highs you used to.

"I certainly feel the defeats much worse than I used to and that aspect of it is quite strange."

Smith admits the Rangers job could be his last in football after a career that spanned management spells at Everton and the Scottish national team.

"I must admit at times when I came back to Rangers I didn't think I would be here for any great length of time," he said.

"I think the thing is when I got the sack from Everton and I had a year of not really doing anything before the Scotland job, I quite enjoyed it for three or four months because you are able to do things you can't when you are involved day-to-day with football.

"After a period of time though, you wonder whether you want to do that.

"It's even worse this time because there is a finality about retiring and I have to ask myself whether that is something that I really want."

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