Coach of Liverpool’s U18 team, then left the Merseyside club to gain experience at Glasgow Rangers. Steven Gerrard was then flashed as the natural successor to Jurgen Klopp at the time the German had to decide to leave Anfield. Gerrard did a brilliant job in Scottish football, returning to the Premier League as Aston Villa manager, the plan to return to Liverpool with top-level experience was followed to the letter.
Then the Liverpool icon was sacked at Villa in 2022, followed by the disastrously poor assessment of leaving the UEFA region for Saudi Arabian desert football. Gerrard filled up the money bin, but even here there was no sporting success. So weak, in fact, that Gerrard made himself completely out of the question for the cool jobs in Europe.
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It was therefore with pleasure that we heard from the English media last week that Gerrard stood as the top candidate to take over the management of Rangers. This is exactly the job Gerrard’s coaching career needs, we thought.
Sky Sports has checked with its sources and claims on Thursday that Gerrard will not be Rangers coach. And we who saw this job as the “perfect” one for Gerrard who needs to rise as a coach.
This means that “Stevie is entering his sixth month without a coaching job.
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