with Leicester City. Wallace, though, was not the club's first choice: Jim McLean and Alex Ferguson, the then managers of the New Firm clubs, both rebuffed Rangers' advances. McLean's brother, Tommy, was appointed caretaker manager, and four games passed before a permanent manager was in position. On 10 November 1983, Wallace was persuaded by the Rangers board to leave Motherwell and return to the club. Wallace's initial impact was positive, boosting morale and fitness. He made changes to the coaching staff, bringing in Alex Totten as first-team coach, with Tommy McLean, David Provan and Joe Mason leaving the club. Wallace also added to the squad during the season: Bobby Williamson arrived from Clydebank, Nicky Walker from Wallace's old club Motherwell, and Stuart Munro from Alloa Athletic. Wallace's first match back in the hotseat was at Pittodrie on 12 November 1983. The game ended in a 3–0 victory for Aberdeen, but Rangers went on a 22-match unbeaten run in all competitions thenceforth until March 1984. They ended the season fourth in the league, fifteen points behind champions Aberdeen. The club did win a trophy, the League Cup. The League Cup Final was an extra-time victory over Celtic, with Ally McCoist scoring a hat-trick in a 3–2 win. The 1984–85 season, Wallace's first full season in charge since his return, was almost a carbon-copy of the previous campaign. Rangers again finished fourth in the league, but it was by a record twenty-one-point margin behind champions Aberdeen. This performance was not caused due to a lack of investment in the playing squad, for a total of £495,000 was spent bringing in Iain Ferguson and Cammy Fraser from Dundee, Ted McMinn from Queen of the South, and the return of Derek Johnstone from Chelsea. The club won the Scottish League Cup for the second season in a row, defeating Dundee United in the Final. A solitary Iain Ferguson strike gave Rangers the win. At the start of Wallace's second full season in charge, five wins out of six matches in the league were attained, plus a further two wins in the League Cup; however, things quickly began to sour as a fall out between manager and then club captain John McClelland saw the latter stripped of the captaincy. McClelland was soon sold to Watford in November 1985 for £265,000. By the turn of the new year, Rangers were in third position in the league.