Muscat: McKay is "the new me"

Rangers will be signing the Australian Pele if they land Matt McKay this week.

That’s the view of former Ger Kevin Muscat who knows McKay well from their brief spell together for the Australian national side in 2006.

As well as his skills with a football Muscat reckons McKay will have the Ibrox dressing room in stitches with his hilarious impressions of Lizzie Birdsworth and Bea Smith from Prisoner Cell Block H.

Speaking exclusively to Sunsport from a bar in Melbourne Muscat said: “There’s no doubt in my mind that Matt will take the SPL by one hell of a storm. He’s not known as the Australian Pele but he is to me – that’s how highly I rate the bloke.”

Muscat has fond memories of his time at Ibrox and revealed McKay phoned him for advice over the move.

“Well he never exactly phoned me but I imagined a call from him and what I would have said, which was to literally walk to Ibrox right away. These chances don’t come along too often, especially for the Australian Pele like McKay. He’ll LOVE it at Ibrox”

Muscatt then laughed as he remembered his old pal doing impressions of various Aussie soap stars.

“He did a brilliant Lizzie from Cell Block H but the crowning glory was Fisher from Home & Away and Madge Ramsay from Neighbours. His Nell Mangle wasn’t so hot though, he never got the look right. He kept us going during International week I can tell you mate.”

We contacted McKay at home and he confirmed talks were ongoing with the Ibrox club. He also called Kevin Muscat a “lying hacking thug with one brain cell”.