{"id":188206,"date":"2025-10-09T14:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188206\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:10:08","slug":"danny-murphy-expresses-steven-gerrard-concern-about-celtic-ahead-of-possible-rangers-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188206\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Murphy expresses Steven Gerrard concern about Celtic ahead of possible Rangers return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Steven Gerrard could be returning for round two in Glasgow. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s fitting that Brendan Rodgers is in the Celtic dugout<\/a> because they can resume their battle, but let\u2019s be honest, there was only one winner last time out.<\/p>\n

Not only did Rodgers win titles<\/a>, the last time Gerrard<\/a> was at Rangers, but the Irishman also secured the Treble, so bring it on again.<\/p>\n

Yes, Celtic<\/a> aren\u2019t producing their usual best and are a long way off it right now, but according to Danny Murphy, there is still a significant gap between the champions of Scotland<\/a> and Rangers. <\/p>\n

\"StevenPhoto by Yasser Bakhsh\/Getty ImagesDanny Murphy warns Steven Gerrard about \u2018impossible task\u2019 at Rangers due to Celtic<\/p>\n

Murphy played alongside Gerrard for several years during their days at Liverpool, so he knows his character better than anyone else.<\/p>\n

But when talkSPORT raised the topic of Gerrard returning to Rangers<\/a>, Murphy expressed his concern as to what could be facing his former teammate.<\/p>\n

Whilst Murphy thinks Gerrard would have learnt a lot from his failed job at Aston Villa, he thinks it\u2019s \u2018impossible\u2019 for him to dethrone Celtic.<\/p>\n

Jim White: \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s an element of BS at any time of the day with Steven Gerrard. You know him better than most.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy: \u201cHe speaks there, in that interview with Rio (Ferdinand), like he\u2019s still got desires to manage, and he\u2019s he must have learned a lot from his time at Villa, especially.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know about Saudi necessarily, but you\u2019ve got to be stupid not to learn managing clubs of that size, and sometimes you learn more when you fail, so I think he will come back in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m reluctant to say, \u2018I think he should\u2019, because I think that\u2019s a hell of a difficult job, at the moment. Even though Celtic are a little bit behind where they\u2019d want to be, in terms of form, they still win games, they\u2019re still sitting pretty.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think it\u2019s an impossible task, at the minute. That\u2019s a long project. It\u2019s like trying to catch a motorbike on a bike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celtic\u2019s trophy success since Gerrard left<\/p>\n

Gerrard left Rangers for Aston Villa during the 2021\/22 season, with Celtic going on to win the Premiership title under Ange Postecoglou \u2013 and since then, the titles have continued to flow in.<\/p>\n

Postecoglou even helped himself to a Treble before he left for his adventure in the English Premier League, as Rodgers narrowly missed out on the Treble<\/a> last term.<\/p>\n

Either way, this is how Celtic\u2019s trophy count has looked ever since Gerrard left Ibrox: <\/p>\n

Premiership titles: 4League Cup: 3Scottish Cup: 2Total trophies: 9 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Gerrard could be returning for round two in Glasgow. It\u2019s fitting that Brendan Rodgers is in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[82832,218,101,25969,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-188206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-danny-murphy","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-steven-gerrard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188206","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=188206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}