The Daily Mail is going big on an Ibrox return for Steven Gerrard.
The former Liverpool skipper walked out on the club in October 2022 for Aston Villa where he lasted 40 matches picking up 1.18 points per match.
Unai Emery has turned Villa round with Gerrard opting for another massive pay day at Al Ettifaq where Jack Hendry and Moussa Dembele were among his signings.
On Sunday Barry Ferguson was told that he wouldn’t be given the manager’s job on a permanent basis, tonight Calum Crowe of the Daily Mail reports:
Steven Gerrard could be poised to make a stunning return to Rangers as the club’s search for a new manager reaches its final stages.
The club have stepped up their hunt for a new manager after announcing on Sunday that interim boss Barry Ferguson had departed.
Gerrard features on a shortlist of names alongside Davide Ancelotti and Russell Martin, with Rangers keen to get their new man in as quickly as possible ahead of pre-season starting on June 23.
The recruitment process is being led by new sporting director Kevin Thelwell and chief executive Patrick Stewart, with Gretar Steinsson of 49ers Enterprises also having a level of input.
Whilst Ancelotti’s name emerged as a shock contender last week, Mail Sport understands that there is a growing preference at Ibrox for the new manager to have frontline managerial experience.
It is believed that Gerrard’s name has now been identified as the preferred candidate and the man to lead the club forward once the US takeover is finalised.
The elephant in the room, Micky Beale wasn’t mentioned in the report, the man widely described as The Brains Behind Gerrard during his first spell in charge.
Whoever is in charge faces a race against time  with a complete overhaul of the squad expected to be completed by July 23/23 and 29/30 for the second round Champions League qualifier.
Gerrard famously managed to lose 2-1 at home to Malmo in August 2021 despite leading 1-0 against 10 men at half-time.
That resulted in a 4-2 aggregate defeat with the Swedes going on to beat Ludogorets to reach the lucrative group stage of the Champions League. Three months later Gerrard was managing Aston Villa.
Steven Gerrard could be poised to return for second spell as Rangers manager
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If anyone out there is in any doubt that B R didn’t rip the sfa a new a$$ Hole after the blatant cheating by beaston at hearts v Celtic sending off one off our players by blatant cheating ? that doubt ended when the penalties stopped and those same penalties gave gerard and sevco their only title , mon back slippy !! chortle
So not a penny or a nickel or dime has changed hands as yet,no paperwork signed off on in any FAKEOVER,and yet here we have the Yanks apparently in charge at ibrox and calling all the shots.
WHAT A LOAD OF SHITE.
F**k it was Warnock seen earlier in Milngavie now this shite.
A wee game of management bingo going on in the Scottish press if you ask me.
As said before all these journalists from all the Scottish editions of the press must be sitting in a big room somewhere with a massive kerryoot and smoking the biggest smokes in the world to be coming out with this shit.
Or maybe they are just yanking their chain.
It was only last week the klan klub put out a statement that it won’t be a manager coming into the klub that’s been here before,now it’s Gerrard back to the klub,they really need to make up their minds.
But then whose making this decision is it the Yanks again having a say without a bean put upfront or just the lackies in the press hoping their Christmas and birthday has come at the same time.
Gerrard – ONE measily throphy outta TEN…
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze let this be !!!
Fingers crossed…..
HH
Identified by whom exactly