Steven Gerrard, the Liverpool icon we loved as a player, the same as Rangers manager. At the height of Rangers, Gerrard was touted as one of the favourites to take over on the day champion Klopp would step down. After a brief stint as Aston Villa manager, saw the career-killing move of leaving the UEFA region for Saudi Arabian money bins, Gerrard was completely out of the picture at Liverpool. It didn’t help that Saudi Arabian football was also a sporting failure for Gerrard. Now it is reported that Stevie has strong motivation not to take a new coaching job at the ball island – at first.
Gerrard was heavily linked with Rangers’ return this month, something he himself admitted.
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-It felt a bit rushed for me, because I had my family in Bahrain at the time. I had a lot to think about in a short time before I could make a decision. There were a few things I was unsure about, and if I’m going to take on such a big and so important challenge, I have that devotion and that connection with the Rangers… for me to put it back on, it had to be perfect and I had to be 100 percent ready,” Gerrard told TNT Sports.
According to talkSPORT’s kidner, Gerrard is unlikely to return to English football in a managerial role until the spring of 2026.
It is claimed, according to sources with knowledge of the tax situation in Saudi Arabia, that Gerrard will have to pay back as much as 45 percent of his income if he moved permanently to the UK before a certain date. The current tax year 2025/26 runs until April.
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With an annual salary in the “Ronaldo League” of an astronomical £15 million and potentially forgoing 45 percent of that, we guess it will take an offer from Liverpool for Gerrard to calculate that it is worth jumping on anything before the spring of 2026.
