{"id":211982,"date":"2025-10-19T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211982\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:45:12","slug":"kevin-muscat-deal-to-be-new-rangers-boss-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211982\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Muscat deal to be new Rangers boss off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers&#8217; move to make Kevin Muscat the club&#8217;s next head coach has fallen through. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muscat is in charge of Chinese side Shanghai Port, who are still in contention for the Super League title in a race which could run into November or December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two parties have been in advanced discussions to bring the former Ibrox player to Glasgow, but the potential delayed start to his tenure made the deal unworkable for both parties. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes after ex-Rangers boss Steven Gerrard turned down the chance to return to the club and former Sheffield Wednesday boss Danny Rohl pulled out of the running. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Scotland has learned the club have been speaking to multiple candidates and are confident an appointment will be made in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russell Martin was removed from his post on 5 October after just 123 days in charge after a dreadful start to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers are currently sixth in the Scottish Premiership with just one win from eight games, and failed to qualify for the Champions League under Martin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; move to make Kevin Muscat the club&#8217;s next head coach has fallen through. Muscat is in charge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-211982","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\/211982","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=211982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}