Gerrard turned down the chance to return, with the timing of the move believed to be behind his decision.<\/p>\n
The former Liverpool and England captain held talks with the Scottish Premiership club last week following Russell Martin’s dismissal as head coach.<\/p>\n
Those discussions were thought to have gone well but the 45-year-old opted against a second stint in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
It leaves the fledgling Rangers hierarchy searching for a head coach to succeed Martin, who lasted just 17 matches after being appointed in June.<\/p>\n
They sit eighth in the Scottish top flight, having won just once in their opening seven league matches, with their next game the visit of Dundee United next Saturday.<\/p>\n
Martin was appointed on a three-year deal following a takeover of Rangers by a US-based consortium in the summer – led by now-chairman Andrew Cavanagh.<\/p>\n
It took Rangers until late September to win in the league and they were humiliated 9-1 on aggregate by Club Brugge in the Champions League play-offs.<\/p>\n
Martin left with the club 11 points behind leaders Heart of Midlothian and nine behind Celtic, having overseen five victories in all competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gerrard turned down the chance to return, with the timing of the move believed to be behind his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-223092","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\/223092","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=223092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}