FORMER ENGLAND STRIKER Alan Shearer says that Steven Gerrard should leap at the chance to become Rangers manager.
The Ibrox club continue to find themselves well off the pace of Scottish champions Celtic, who emphasised the gulf between the teams with a thumping 5-0 Old Firm derby success on Sunday, which sealed a seventh straight title.
Graeme Murty will leave his position as interim boss in the summer, with Gerrard set to replace him in the hot seat.
Shearer, who was briefly a team-mate of the iconic Liverpool midfield at national level, believes it is a great step for a man who has been working with the Reds’ youth teams.
“It’s a big ‘if’, because there are no guarantees, but if everything is put in place and he is promised funds – and I’m pretty sure if he accepts they would have to deliver what they have promised to him – I think it’s a no-brainer for him,” the Newcastle legend told BBC Sport.
“He’ll be able to attract bigger players because of who he is and what he brings to the football club
“Wherever he goes, people will follow because he’s such a huge name.”
Indeed, he sees it as a better starting point than a team lower down the pecking order in England.
“If he were to take another job, for argument’s sake in the Championship, it’s a very, very tough league. He’s got to then also get up to the Premier League and there’s 12 or 13 teams that can do that,” he added.
Rangers are in danger of finishing fourth in the Scottish Premiership this season. They currently sit level on points with Neil Lennon’s Hibs and trail second-placed Aberdeen by three points.
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An awful job to start the career.
@The Big S: He better not take it. Stupid move.
I suspect many of the commentators on here and especially the Liverpool fans are too young to know that Liverpool have traditionally been known as “Rangers in Red”. This was often given as the reason why a very large proportion of Irish exiles in Liverpool particularly in the 50s and 60s supported Everton. It also served as a useful distinction between the Celtic-Man United connection. For me it made choosing Liverpool as the team to follow in 1973 FA cup final only acceptable because Steve Heighway was playing for them and he was the only Irishman on either team. Liverpool beat Sunderland in that final and so began a lifelong support.
@: Sorry that was 1974 final v Newcastle. Leeds had beaten Sunderland in 1973 but we didn’t have Tv at the time so couldn’t Ser that match. In any event I wouldn’t have been allowed support Leeds as though he was primarily a GAS man my father had a “softness” as he called it for Man U and thus hated Leeds
@: predictive text. GAA man*
@: ‘Liverpool have traditionally been known as “Rangers in Red”.’
Certainly not in the time I’ve been following football (since 1970). That particular facet of sectarian stupidity is buried in the past and should stay there.
@: what utter thrash
Did sunderland not beat Leeds in 73?
@John O Reilly: yes. See follow up post
If he wants to see Celtic win 10 in a row
Shearer is an expert in no-braining
I think he’s making a big mistake. Club is in a jocker, he’d be better with a club in the English leagues
I don’t want to see him fail , yet obviously I don’t want sevco to succeed! An awful job for him to take, from an Irish Liverpool fans perspective! It’s not a bad starter job for him though! He’ll gain some European experience as well as the pressure that comes with a biggish job! I thought Rafa might have tried bringing him to Newcastle as a coach at some stage. Either way I wish him well but not too well, just well enough he doesn’t embarrass himself like Johnny Barnes did a few years back..
@Hardly Normal: Gerrard has said himself and Rafa didn’t have the best relationship at Liverpool,Rafa would never have brought him in as a coach at Newcastle
@John Connolly: if you read the pages of his autobiography where he said that he went onto say they had a professional working relationship and shared the best night of their career together, he continues to say he would hope some day that they could sit down and have a friendly chat about those days! Gerrard also credits Benetiz as being the best tactical coach he’s ever worked with so to work together as a coach wouldn’t be a huge strain for either of them.. Maybe it is a stretch but as I said just a thought!
@Hardly Normal: I get what you’re saying but from listening to what Gerrard was saying I couldn’t see the two of the working together in the dugout,could be wrong but I wouldn’t be surprised if Gerrard pulls out at the last minute going to rangers
@Hardly Normal: he’ll gain f¥@k all there, let’s be honest about it.
Gerrard seems the perfect man for a no brain situation.
If he wants to see Celtic win 10 in a row
@Oisin Walsh: Gerrard was the last man to stop Rodgers winning a title don’t forget
Of course rangers want him, sure he was the only man to stop Brendan Rodgers winning the title in England, (I’m only joking before the messages start flying)
@damiencollins: haha I was wondering alright. I was thinking “is he joking?, have I heard this before?” But no, good one ha
How right Shearer is , you want to have No Brains to take that Job !!!!
Football is a tough enough sport without mixing it with sectarianism, religion and hooliganism. Would Stevie join millwall? Not a chance! Pure ignorance on his part and shame on his advisors. Will ruin the boy’s standing amongst a lot of his fans
@john o’regan: and being the one managing the white club, with white players, white board and fans that attack their own players. Apart from that it’s a no brainer.