New manager rumours

[der Berliner 3,247]

He sat next to Dave King not too long ago. I reckon he was given all insurances there and then.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

We need an experienced manager.

[SteveC 150]

 

The lead-up to a potentially crushing Old Firm derby – and likely an extravagant Celtic title party – is an opportune time for Rangers fans to hear the name of Steven Gerrard connected with their team, albeit as an untried management candidate. Telegraph Sport can confirm that the Ibrox directors have been in touch with representatives of the Liverpool youth coach.

The scar tissue sustained in the battering by Celtic in the William Hill Scottish Cup semi-finals remains livid and, although the Rangers die-hards will do their best to present a defiant face at Parkhead on Sunday, there is a ravenous appetite for any evidence to suggest that the Ibrox board has some form of viable plan to create a credible challenge to their arch-foes.

Brendan Rodgers, in his singular fashion, has brought Celtic to the brink of the unprecedented feat of a second successive clean sweep of the Scottish honours. He is unbeaten in 10 Old Firm derbies and has supervised four-goal winning margins in three, including a record 5-1 victory at Ibrox last season – the first time ever that the Hoops had scored as many goals on the other side of Glasgow.

Three successive Rangers managers have now been on the wrong end of these humiliations. Mark Warburton’s first taste of Old Firm intensity was a 5-1 drubbing at Celtic Park and his successor, the hapless Pedro Caixinha, was in charge when Celtic repeated the trick in Govan a year ago.

 

Between times, Graeme Murty supervised a 1-1 draw at Parkhead in his first stint as Rangers’ interim boss and also quarried a goalless draw from the same location in December. Murty could even make a decent claim to have come close to interrupting Rodgers’ domination at Ibrox last month, when Rangers lost 3-2 to a Celtic side reduced to 10 men in the closing stages, but who were also fortunate that Alfredo Morelos extended his record of missing gilt-edged chances on such occasions.

Celtic have been dominant under Brendan Rodgers CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES

The Scottish Cup debacle and its aftermath – a dressing room row which ended with veterans Lee Wallace and Kenny Miller suspended by the club – effectively took Murty out of the running for the position in the longer term, despite his record of decent results away to Celtic plus wins away to Aberdeen and Hibernian, the teams immediately behind Rangers in the Scottish Premiership table.

Despite a recovery of sorts with a 2-1 victory over Hearts on Sunday, the Rangers support remained angry, brandishing a set of banners that included the barbed message, ‘Incompetent on & off the pitch’. Since then, Allan McGregor and Scott Arfield have been identified as summer arrivals by the Ibrox director of football, Mark Allen.

 

At the same time, other managerial candidates to pique the interest of Rangers’ head hunters have included Graham Potter, the Englishman in charge of Ostersunds in Sweden, Cardiff City’s Neil Warnock, Alex Neil of Preston and Steve Clarke, whose Kilmarnock side have beaten Rangers twice and beaten and drawn with Celtic. Gerrard is the latest to top the bookies’ rankings.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/04/26/rangers-contact-liverpool-steven-gerrards-availability-manager/

 

Edited April 26, 2018 by SteveC

[Little General 80]

2 hours ago, the gunslinger said:

We need an experienced manager.

Whether that is true or not, it sure has put much needed exicitement into the club.

 

Jim Bowen Loyal

That's the Gamble

 

 

[Crimson Dynamo 128]

If Gerrard rumour is true. It only goes to show the pull our great club still has. Despite everything its been through.

 

Cliché but we are the people.

[compo 6,141]

11 hours ago, Little General said:

Whether that is true or not, it sure has put much needed exicitement into the club.

 

Jim Bowen Loyal

That's the Gamble

 

 

I think it will be a case of let's see what you could have won .

[DMAA 3,603]

Apparently we've been snubbed by Steve Clarke. Have to say I'm a little relieved we went for him first, and that takes away a little bit of the guilt in gambling on Gerrard

 

I think we're all in groundhog day mode by now and though and no matter who we appoint we'll lose to St Johnstone at home in September and all the chat from the pundits will be "why didn't they go for Tommy Wright"

[pete 2,499]

2 minutes ago, DMAA said:

Apparently we've been snubbed by Steve Clarke. Have to say I'm a little relieved we went for him first, and that takes away a little bit of the guilt in gambling on Gerrard

 

I think we're all in groundhog day mode by now and though and no matter who we appoint we'll lose to St Johnstone at home in September and all the chat from the pundits will be "why didn't they go for Tommy Wright"

It was also reported FdB was asked but knocked us back.

[compo 6,141]

Bet no one ever foreseen the day we couldn't attract a manager into the Ibrox hot seat even mediocre managers are looking for what the press call these days a  War chest of money who knows what's going to happen .

[ian1964 10,416]

Anybody else feel this will fail to happen and we will all be left feeling embarrassed again?