10 Oct 2025 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - Thestigno1 has posted a new article entitled, If Steven Gerrard Returns To Rangers, Let's Finish What We Started
10 Oct 2025 09:15:19
If you think Gerrard will stay long term with Rangers you're delusional. He'll be out the gate quicker than Usain Bolt the minute a better offer comes along. And Brendan Rodgers the same.
10 Oct 2025 14:22:31
Stevie Me has shown his level, and Rangers is as good as its going to ever get for him - perhaps he will now realise this and stay there longer term.
10 Oct 2025 14:42:08
I don't understand the knocks Gerrard gets for his managerial career. He was extremely successful at Rangers, why would he not aspire to take a step up after what he achieved there.
It's not like he has come out and said he's the greatest manager ever, he tried improving and has realised where his level is at, hence why he is probably considering returning to Rangers.
God forbid people try to better themselves!
10 Oct 2025 19:12:16
Agree Stui Boy. Last manager to win the league with Rangers in some donkeys years!
10 Oct 2025 21:31:48
Totally agree Stuie - people do the same thing they do with players and speculate his thinking and then turn that into fact. “He thinks he’s bigger than he is”
When he went into management I’ve not detected that once.
10 Oct 2025 22:13:00
To be charitable, the SPL is average.
There are basically two teams who, relatively speaking compared to the rest of the league, can afford more and better players than the rest.
When was the last time a Scottish side won a European club competition? To save people looking it up it was Aberdeen in 1983, before that it was Rangers in 1972 and before that Celtic in 1967 and that’s your lot.
It’s a poor standard. Stevie, to be fair, won trophies which he was charged with doing by the club but it was in the ‘kiddies pool’. His attempts at swimming in the ‘big pool’ haven’t successful. Not a nice person, great footballer, average lower division manager. Just because someone is a great footballer doesn’t mean they will be a good manager - different job, different skills.
11 Oct 2025 00:47:13
He wasn't extremely successful at rangers in trophy terms, he won one league and no cups in 3 years. Admittedly, winning the league (and going unbeaten) was a great achievement, but he also left the squad full of highly paid players who were on the decline.
I've no doubt he'll get a tune out of the current rangers squad, it's a rival of Celtic's this season in my opinion, but clawing back a 12 point lead might be beyond him this season.
I think he suits rangers, and he's very unlikely to get sacked any time soon, unless he turns out worse than Russell Martin!
11 Oct 2025 09:34:22
I'd say winning the league unbeaten ranks as extremely successful based on the expectations of the board and fans at the time. I think people like to just give him stick for the sake of giving stick.
It's also interesting how many posters on this forum obviously know him personally to make such scathing character judgements!
11 Oct 2025 10:27:56
Who said they know him personally? One of my family knows him and has had (a fair while ago) a number of direct social interactions with him and has been in a number of social situations when Gerard has not out his best self forward. I’ve never met him but I have met my cousin and can vouch that they are a d3cent person without an axe to grind. Hence my observation on a Liverpool FC web site. You don’t have to take it as Gospel Stuie. Have you ever met him yourself or is your defence of him based on his being an exceptional footballer, which he undoubtedly was?
11 Oct 2025 13:51:48
One of his immediate family married into my non direct, so at weddings etc. Never seen issues, we've all heard the stories etc but it's just amusing that people criticise his management career, him personally etc with no real just cause.
I guess that's just modern life with the internet eh!