{"id":182963,"date":"2025-09-26T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182963\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:41:07","slug":"pressure-builds-on-russell-martin-after-rangers-loss-scottish-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182963\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure builds on Russell Martin after Rangers loss &#8211; Scottish gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers head coach Russell Martin confirmed he will hold talks with chairman Andrew Cavenagh in the wake of Thursday&#8217;s 1-0 loss to Genk. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/25496366.russell-martin-confirms-andrew-cavenagh-rangers-meeting\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Herald &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kris Boyd believes former club Rangers must look for a new manager to replace Martin following Thursday&#8217;s Europa League defeat at Ibrox. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15386005\/kris-boyd-rangers-manager-russell-martin-genk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers are exploring the market for alternatives to Martin following supporter protests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/rangers-backed-to-have-new-manager-lined-up-theyve-responded-to-the-protests\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Rangers striker Ally McCoist criticises the officials for not awarding Martin&#8217;s side a first-half penalty against Genk. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15385584\/ally-mccoist-referee-invented-shove-rangers-penalty-genk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Martindale hopes to add Martin to the list of managers who lost their first trip to Livingston, including Steven Gerrard, Neil Lennon and Ange Postecoglou, with Rangers in West Lothian on Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/david-martindale-hopes-rangers-boss-35966521\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Midfielder Stuart Armstrong&#8217;s thoughts are on Aberdeen, not a Scotland recall at present. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/aberdeen-fc\/6858629\/aberdeen-fc-stuart-armstrong-addresses-losing-form\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Press and Journal &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts head coach Derek McInnes says there are &#8220;people dying for us to lose a game&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hearts\/people-are-dying-for-hearts-to-lose-derek-mcinnes-speaks-out-ahead-of-falkirk-and-hibs-games-5333815\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Edinburgh Evening News &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers head coach Russell Martin confirmed he will hold talks with chairman Andrew Cavenagh in the wake of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-182963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}