{"id":191149,"date":"2025-10-10T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191149\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:21:07","slug":"steven-gerrard-rangers-return-lessons-from-first-spell-at-ibrox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191149\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Gerrard Rangers return: Lessons from first spell at Ibrox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gerrard did not last a year at Villa Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Up and down results yielded a 14th-place finish at the end of season 2021-22 before a 3-0 loss at Fulham left them 17th in October 2022 when he was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across 2022, he won just eight of his 31 games, losing 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He moved to Saudi Arabia in July 2023 when he took over at Al-Ettifaq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His most recent job lasted 18 months and he moved on with the club sitting 12th in the Saudi Pro League, just five points above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Overall, I have learned a lot, and it&#8217;s been a positive experience personally and for my family,&#8221; he said in late January. &#8220;But football is unpredictable, and sometimes things don&#8217;t go the way we want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those post-Ibrox exploits may give some pause for thought and the man himself may have doubts over inheriting a struggling squad, but Gerrard has demonstrated he has the personality to handle such a high-profile post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is the only Rangers boss to have lifted the league trophy since the great Walter Smith. That experience might well be hard to ignore for an under-pressure Ibrox board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gerrard did not last a year at Villa Park. Up and down results yielded a 14th-place finish at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-191149","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\/191149","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=191149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}