{"id":74738,"date":"2025-10-11T23:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/74738\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:08:07","slug":"gerrard-rules-himself-out-of-rangers-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/74738\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerrard rules himself out of Rangers return"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is understood that Steven Gerrard has ruled himself out of contention to return as Rangers boss.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old had been the front-runner to replace the sacked Russell Martin as head coach, but it is understood that after holding constructive discussions with the club, he felt the timing was not right for a return to Ibrox.<\/p>\n

It is understood the conversations were positive and both sides agreed to leave the door open for the future.<\/p>\n

Martin was sacked last weekend after just four months in charge, with the team having won just one of their opening seven William Hill Premiership matches.<\/a><\/p>\n

Gerrard, who left his role in charge of Saudi Arabian side Al-Ettifaq in January, is a hero to many Gers supporters after leading them to the title in 2020-21, which remains the only time they have won the league since their financial implosion in 2012.<\/p>\n

He left the club later that year after three years in charge to take over at Aston Villa.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the ‘Rio Ferdinand Presents’ podcast released this week, Gerrard revealed he had “a bit of unfinished business” in management and wanted “to be at a team that\u2019s going to compete to win because I think that suits me better”.<\/p>\n

Rangers Under-19 coach Steven Smith is currently overseeing first-team training on an interim basis along with B team coach Brian Gilmour, goalkeeping coach Sal Bibbo and head of performance Rhys Owen.<\/p>\n

Other names to have been touted as potential successors to Martin include Hearts boss Derek McInnes, former Rangers player Kevin Muscat and ex-Everton boss Sean Dyche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is understood that Steven Gerrard has ruled himself out of contention to return as Rangers boss. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-74738","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\/74738","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=74738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}