Stewart <\/a>– a title winner with Steven Gerrard\u2019s Light Blues in 2021 – is backing his old team to cope with the scrutiny and end Celtic\u2019s bid for five-in-a-row. And speaking on this week\u2019s Record Rangers Podcast, he said: \u201cI think the pressure is on Rangers and Celtic still, just because Hearts are still in a place they didn\u2019t think they\u2019d be.<\/p>\n\u201cI know they were so many points ahead but at the end of the day there is 38 games in a season and you don\u2019t win the league in October. But the pressure is on Rangers and Celtic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having come from 13 points back to now sit right on Hearts\u2019 coattails, the 36-year-old is well aware that some Gers fans will be left raging if their team fails to cross the finish line first.<\/p>\n
But he said: \u201cObviously with Rangers, having had such a bad start, Danny Rohl has got himself into a position now where I think we\u2019re favourites. [But if they don\u2019t do it], I think it would be harsh to criticise him because of the position he\u2019s got us into now.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, he\u2019s the Rangers manager and he\u2019s there to win games of football. But to come this far and fall short would feel like a disappointment. It would. Looking across the board, he\u2019s done an unbelievable job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Stewart admits he\u2019s been left bewildered by the curious case of Andres Skov Olsen.<\/p>\n
The capture of the Danish wideman on a six-month loan from German side Wolfsburg was greeted as a major coup by the Gers faithful, especially after it was revealed the Light Blues had negotiated an \u00a38million option to make the deal permanent.<\/p>\n
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Greg Stewart during his time at Ibrox(Image: SNS Group)<\/p>\n
But so far Skov Olsen has come nowhere near to justifying that huge outlay. And Stewart said: \u201cHe\u2019s not the player I thought he was.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m trying to think what he actually brings to the table. When a winger comes in for that price, he must have a trick, he must be quick, he must get after people or make those unselfish runs in behind to create space for someone else, or offer a threat with his set-pieces.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019m struggling to think what he brings. I know he\u2019s had a couple of assists but for that sort of money you are expecting a game-changer, really. I thought every time he got the ball on Saturday he passed it backwards. And it\u2019s not even like he would play it backwards then run in behind for a return pass.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s really strange because as you say, I was really optimistic when we got him. I thought, \u2018phew, he could be the one who gets us over the line.\u2019 But it\u2019s been such underwhelming performances from him. It looks like there\u2019s a real lack of confidence from him, which I just can\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s playing in a team that\u2019s not lost since December. And the manager is showing a bit of trust in him as well. When he\u2019s played bad, he\u2019s been allowed to play again. I wish I had that under Stevie G!<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d play well and still be dropped. When I saw a player like him being linked to Rangers, I thought, \u2018Here we go! He could be the game changer we need\u2019. Because we have struggled on the right hand side since Vaclav Cerny left. I was desperate to sign him, I don\u2019t know why we didn\u2019t because that was a no brainer for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut yeah, with Skov Olsen I\u2019m struggling to see it. With six games left, there\u2019s still time and hopefully he can dig out a bit of magic from somewhere because he must have something when you look at the teams he\u2019s played for and the fact he has 40 caps for Denmark.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ibrox star Greg Stewart appeared on this week’s Record Rangers Podcast with Andy Newport 19:39, 07 Apr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[140729,2817,86566,63797,218,180829,9531,2714,8058,101,25969,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-andreas-skov-olsen","9":"tag-celtic-fc","10":"tag-danny-rohl","11":"tag-derek-mcinnes","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-greg-stewart","14":"tag-hearts-fc","15":"tag-rangers-fc","16":"tag-scottish-premiership","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-steven-gerrard","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518968","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=518968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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