{"id":64416,"date":"2025-10-07T03:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T03:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64416\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T03:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T03:58:16","slug":"gerrard-in-line-for-rangers-return-after-russell-martin-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64416\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerrard in line for Rangers return after Russell Martin sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

An all-time Liverpool legend could potentially be in line to return to his former club, according to reports over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no fear of Arne Slot being forcibly removed from his position as the Reds\u2019 head coach any time soon, but that\u2019s exactly what has happened to Russell Martin at Rangers as his miserable tenure at Ibrox was brought to an end overnight after just four months.<\/p>\n

A 1-1 draw at Falkirk on Sunday proved to be the final straw, with the 39-year-old having to leave the stadium covertly in transportation separate to the team bus, which was surrounded by irate Gers supporters who\u2019d grown increasingly discontent with his reign in charge.<\/p>\n

Gerrard being considered for Rangers reunion<\/p>\n

According to The Guardian<\/a>, Liverpool icon Steven Gerrard is \u2018under strong consideration\u2019 to be hired as the Light Blues\u2019 manager for a second time, having guided the club unbeaten to their most recent Scottish Premiership title in 2021.<\/p>\n

For that reason, the Huyton native is \u2018held in high esteem\u2019 by many Rangers fans, and his prospective reappointment \u2018would prove hugely popular\u2019 on that side of Glasgow.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s added that the 45-year-old will \u2018be aware of what few options he has to be a manager in significant leagues\u2019, having not enjoyed anywhere near the same success in subsequent posts at Aston Villa and Al-Ettifaq.<\/p>\n

\"Steven(Photo by Ian MacNicol\/Getty Images)Gerrard would likely jump at chance to go back to Rangers<\/p>\n

Gerrard has now been out of work for just over eight months since the end of his reign with the aforementioned Saudi Pro League club, where (by his own admission<\/a>) he\u2019d vexed some players with the scheduling of his training sessions.<\/p>\n

The legendary former Liverpool captain was reportedly considered for the Southampton job<\/a> earlier this year after the sacking of Ivan Juric, but the south coast side eventually hired Will Still.<\/p>\n

He may feel that a Rangers reunion would be the perfect way back into management, with the Ibrox fan base viewing him favourably and his options in England perhaps limited because of his unhappy reign at Villa Park.<\/p>\n

If Gerrard is to go back to Glasgow, though, he\u2019d have quite the job on his hands to revive the fortunes of a team languishing in eighth place in the Premiership after seven games (already 11 points off the summit) and facing an uphill battle to avoid early elimination from the Europa League.<\/p>\n

However, we can\u2019t imagine the 45-year-old being intimidated by such a challenge \u2013 if anything, he\u2019d revel in it if given the opportunity to instigate a turnaround at a club whose current woes make Liverpool\u2019s run of three straight defeats seem harmless by comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An all-time Liverpool legend could potentially be in line to return to his former club, according to reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-64416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}