{"id":185925,"date":"2025-10-08T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185925\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:01:08","slug":"rangers-training-led-by-coaching-team-after-martin-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185925\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers training led by coaching team after Martin sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Steven Smith, Brian Gilmour, Sal Bibbo, and Rhys Owen took charge following the dismissal of Russell Martin last weekend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  First-team players not on international duty returned to training today after a short break, with the quartet leading the session.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Smith, who is in charge of the club&#8217;s under-19s, and Gilmour, a B team coach, were joined by Bibbo and Owen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bibbo was brought in by Martin as a goalkeeping coach, while Owen is the head of sports science and performance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Martin&#8217;s replacement &#8211; interim or permanent &#8211; has yet to be confirmed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/steven-gerrard\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steven Gerrard<\/a> has been widely mentioned as a potential option.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking on Rio Ferdinand&#8217;s podcast, the former Liverpool captain said: &#8220;I\u2019d love another go at some point.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I want to change a few things and improve a few things and come back fresh with a few different people around myself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I\u2019d love another couple of challenges doing this.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;And that\u2019s what I\u2019m working on in the background at the moment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;A few different ideas, a few different people around me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Now, I\u2019m enjoying family time and doing a lot of things that I haven\u2019t been able to do.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Going to Grand Prix, doing exhibition games with ex-teammates and superstars, that type of stuff\u2019s been great.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;But there\u2019s a part of me that still feels that there\u2019s a bit of unfinished business in terms of wanting to go in and face another couple of exciting challenges.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;But I want a certain type of challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Smith, Brian Gilmour, Sal Bibbo, and Rhys Owen took charge following the dismissal of Russell Martin last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-185925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}