Peter Lovenkrands has returned to Rangers as a part-time academy coach.

The former Newcastle striker had originally applied for the Assistant Manager’s job with the Gers but he insists he is excited to be back at his former club and he is looking forward to showing what he can do as a coach.

He told Rangers’ official website:

“I’m very excited to be fair and looking forward to the challenge.

“I got asked to come in and do the interviews for the assistant coach job for the first team and I missed out on that, and of course that was hard to take because I really wanted that.

“But then I got asked to come in for this one and I thought it was a really good opportunity to show what I can do and get a foot in the door with the coaching and trying to get my experience across to the younger players

“I have ambitions, I would love to be higher up and this is a way for me to come in and kind of show what I can do and try to work my way up.

“But it’s not like I want to go in and I want to work my way up to be a manager right away. I can’t see myself as a manager actually in quite a while, I need to learn a lot of the game in that way, the coaching side of it, but I do think I can see myself being higher up. The best way is to go in and show it and work your way up.”