Villa's Cuellar is pondering a return to Rangers Rangers have agreed a fee with Aston Villa for Carlos Cuellar, who will now decide whether to return to Ibrox.Defender Cuellar left Glasgow for Villa Park in 2008 but new Rangers manager Ally McCoist hopes the 29-year-old can be persuaded to rejoin.
"There's a fee been agreed with Aston Villa in terms of Carlos Cuellar," McCoist told BBC Sport.
"We're very, very hopeful we can finalise a deal with Carlos himself and get that one over the line."
McCoist, after his team beat Linfield 4-1 at Windsor Park in "a very worthwhile exercise", told BBC Northern Ireland that it was evident new players were required.
"We are still needing players. It is our job to get them in and we will get them in," he said.
"In terms of overall fitness, it is coming along nicely."
The Ibrox manager revealed that a deal to keep Steven Davis at the club was very close to completion.
He said: "Talks are on-going at the moment. We are very keen to have him stay for a few more years.
"Steve is keen to stay. We have spoken to his agent and there is just about a deal done there."
Davis also sounded hopeful that a deal could be concluded.
He said after the match: "It's not done and dusted yet but it's not too far away. There will maybe be something to report next week."
McCoist is also considering bringing striker Kenny Miller back to Rangers from Turkish side Bursaspor and a move for Espanyol defender Raul Rodriguez is still on-going.
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I'm very, very keen, as are the rest of the management staff to get some fresh faces in to help the players that are in thereAlly McCoist Rangers manager
"We haven't spoken to Bursaspor but at this stage we wouldn't rule anything out at all," said McCoist.
"They (Espanyol) haven't got back to our fax that we sent them but we'll be pushing that one again.
"Rumour has it that their sporting director said that the bid wasn't enough but they haven't got back to us as a club yet but we'll certainly be making contact in the next 24-48 hours."
"Obviously there's one or two others. We're working tirelessly to get three or four players into the squad, which I'm sure we will.
"We've got five, six or even seven players that we're in contact with at the moment and hopefully within the next three or four days we'll get them over the line.
"I'm very, very keen, as are the rest of the management staff, to get some fresh faces in to help the players that are in there."
Meanwhile, McCoist has played down reports about Burnley's possible interest in re-signing Ibrox forward Kyle Lafferty, who is currently injured.
"That's news to me but Kyle won't be going anywhere," McCoist added.
"Kyle's a very important player to us, he's going absolutely nowhere."
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