{"id":190115,"date":"2025-10-10T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190115\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:24:10","slug":"scottish-gossip-gerrard-maeda-boyle-holland-tait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190115\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Gerrard, Maeda, Boyle, Holland, Tait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Preliminary discussions between Rangers and Steven Gerrard have exceeded expectations and the former manager is en route to Scotland amid a strong mutual enthusiasm for his return to Ibrox. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/news\/rangers-timeline-steven-gerrard-return-revealed-negotiations-advanced-stage\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(TeamTalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A leading bookmaker has suspended betting on the next Rangers head coach after a &#8220;flood of money&#8221; for former team boss Steven Gerrard. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/football\/25529521.next-rangers-manager-betting-closed-flood-money\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Herald), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steven Gerrard will attempt to lure former England coach Steve Holland into his new-look Rangers backroom team if he lands the job as head coach. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/steven-gerrard-already-building-rangers-36042870?ref=ed_direct\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Danny Murphy, a close friend and former team-mate of Steven Gerrard, is surprised the former England midfielder is contemplating a return to Rangers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/steven-gerrard-sprung-rangers-surprise-36042988\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha admits he made a lot of wrong man-management decisions during his time at Ibrox but also reckons a lack of respect for his background, leaks from within the club, and owner Dave King&#8217;s absence all played their part too. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/pedro-caixinha-drops-revealing-rangers-36043212\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic forward Daizen Maeda, who is likely to miss Japan&#8217;s match against Paraguay with discomfort in his left foot, says it was his decision to stay with the Scottish champions this summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkansports.com\/soccer\/japan\/news\/202510090001498.html\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Nikkan Sports), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preliminary discussions between Rangers and Steven Gerrard have exceeded expectations and the former manager is en route to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190115","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\/190115","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=190115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}