{"id":197874,"date":"2025-10-13T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197874\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:44:08","slug":"kris-boyd-on-rangers-steven-gerrard-begging-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197874\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Boyd on Rangers&#8217; Steven Gerrard &#8216;begging bowl&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The former Gers striker, however, thinks the club will need to get the begging bowl out to enable a reunion to happen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Gerrard withdrew from the race to become the next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/rangers?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rangers<\/a> manager late on Saturday night. It was mooted that the timing wasn&#8217;t right for a return to Glasgow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This decision leaves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/andrew-cavenagh\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andrew Cavenagh<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/paraag-marathe\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paraag Marathe<\/a> still searching for Russell Martin&#8217;s successor.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Boyd believes Gerrard could still be a contender for the position, but it won&#8217;t be an easy recruitment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He told the Scottish Sun: &#8220;The only thing that I could think, maybe, has thrown a spanner in the works is the whole Kevin Thelwell and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/patrick-stewart\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Patrick Stewart<\/a> scenario.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;A manager won&#8217;t want to take on effectively his bosses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;But if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/steven-gerrard\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steven Gerrard<\/a> has spoken to the owners of the club, and they have had good conversations, like we were led to believe happened, there might be a power struggle here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to be honest, it might be a ploy from Steven Gerrard.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As it stands, Mr Boyd is uncertain about the club&#8217;s next steps.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;As it stands right now, I really don&#8217;t know where Rangers are going to turn to.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It might be a case where they have to go back to Steven Gerrard with the begging bowl and say &#8216;Listen, we need you to come here, and we&#8217;re going to move the structure within the football club to allow you to come here&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Gers striker, however, thinks the club will need to get the begging bowl out to enable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-197874","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\/197874","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=197874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}