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Chris Sutton destroys former England star defending Gerrard’s record of success

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Chris Sutton has taken Micah Richards to task after the former Manchester City defender put up the tired argument that Steven Gerrard is doing a good job at Ibrox.

Improving on Pedro Caixinha and Graeme Murty shouldn’t be too difficult but despite the fortunes spent on over 30 players the Liverpool legend has yet to experience the thrill of winning a title or walking his team out at Hampden in the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup.

Hearts and Aberdeen (twice) have ended Gerrard’s hopes of winning a recognisable trophy although this season has seen the Lyon Vase move into the Blue Room.

It’s not known how closely Richards watched back-to-back defeats from Hearts and Hamilton in February but that didn’t stop him providing the usual upbeat assessment of Gerrard’s failings.

Covering Sutton’s exchange on 5 Live last night The Sun reports:

He said: “Mikey, you don’t understand the environment. Tell me what he has done well at Rangers.”

When Richards praised the mentality the Englishman has brought to the club, Sutton was having none of it.

“What? They have bottled it the last two seasons!”

Richards and Smith went on to say that the fact Celtic have the bigger budget means that Gerrard shouldn’t be classed as a failure.

The latter asked when was the last time the Ibrox side were able to spend £9million on a development player, a reference to Celtic striker Odsonne Edouard.

Richards said: “They were doing alright, weren’t they? In the last ten games they did bottle it a little bit. But that is because Celtic at this moment have better players, and probably have a better budget.

“Is that right or wrong. Have they, or do they not have a better budget?

Sutton replied: “So it is all about budgets, is it? So we can’t count when Leicester City won the title.”

Smith is a Soccer Guy from the New York Times, since Gerrard arrived in 2018 Celtic have made a net profit in transfer fees. Gerrard has managed to raise around £2m from the transfers of Josh Windass and Daniel Candeias.

Gerrard is believed to be the highest paid manager in Scottish football- Jermain Defoe and Steve Davis aren’t in Scotland to enjoy training sessions with Greg Docherty and Jamie Murphy.

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