Mark Hateley was having none of Ray Parlour's assertions that Scottish teams haven't performed well enough in Europe recently.

The Rangers legend rightly pointed out that his former team has reached a final and various quarter-finals over the last five years.

Appearing on talkSPORT alongside Alan Brazil this morning, Hateley was on the show to discuss tomorrow's Old Firm.

However, they got sidetracked and started discussions over Aston Villa's 6-2 hammering in their Europa Conference League semi-final at the hands of Olympiacos.

The conversation came around to why neither Rangers nor Celtic had performed better at that level, a question posed by Parlour. 

But it was here that Hately set the record straight as far as the Light Blues were concerned.

Parlour said: “We were talking earlier about Olympiacos being in the final of the Europa Conference League, beating Aston Villa, and I’m amazed that Celtic and Rangers don’t have really good runs in Europe at that sort of level because they’ve got the history over the years.”

Hateley responded strongly, saying: “I don't think you can aim that at Rangers over the last three of four years because we’ve been to a final, quarter-finals and last-16s and all that sort of stuff so we’ve been there or thereabouts.”

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Meanwhile, forgotten Rangers loan star Ianis Hagi is set to come in from the cold at La Liga after not kicking a ball for two months at Alaves.

And he's been praised for his attitude in Spain by Alaves boss Luis Garcia, despite his loan move from Ibrox not working out.

Hagi, 25, is set to return to Rangers at the end of the season and he still has two more years left of his Ibrox deal after former boss Michael Beale extended his contract.