BRONDBYVESTER, DENMARK - NOVEMBER 04: Rangers Manager Steven Gerrard pre-match during a UEFA Europa League match between Brondby and Rangers at the Brondby Stadium on November 04, 2021, in Brondbyvester, Denmark. (Photo by Alan Harvey/SNS Group via Getty Images)
The Daily Record has relaunched the Steven Gerrard Express!
After three days of hype last week the bad news emerged on Saturday night that the former Aston Villa boss wouldn’t be taking over from Russell Martin.
THE ALTERNATIVES TO GERRARD
It was a devastating blow for Record readers, on Saturday six different stories were conjured up on Gerrard’s return.
His backroom staff had been named alongside the main January transfer targets.
Attempts to pain Danny Rohl as the next big thing in management went down like a lead balloon.
Yesterday attention turned to the Kevin Muscat and Neil McCann dream team but there is only one story that Record readers want to dive into.
Late this morning the Record opened with
Odds are surging on an astonishing Rangers U-turn for Steven Gerrard – who is once again the frontrunner in the eyes of bookies.
he former Ibrox boss told them no on Saturday night after two days of talks and so far there’s been nothing firm to suggest he’s had a rethink dramatic enough to return to the table.
But oddsmakers seem to have other ideas.
On Wednesday morning, Gerrard was a rank outsider with Kevin Muscat out in front as the favourite.
But he’s gone from north of 10/1 to 5/4 with most bookmakers and the eyebrow-raising surge has even seen him narrowly overtake Muscat as some bookies’ favourite for the job.
Betting patterns are likely to be the driving force for the sea change as so far we’ve had no firm information to suggest he is back in the frame.
But don’t let that get in the way of sharing good news with your army of readers.
CHANGING THE MARKET
All it takes is for three or four people to place a £20 bet in this type of market to re-arrange the odds.
Or for a bookmaker to turn the odds upside down knowing that desperate media outlets will soon be providing free publicity.
Today Steve Smith and Brian Gilmore again took first team training. There are only two training sessions to go before Saturday’s match at home to Dundee United.
Neither Smith or Gilmore have ever managed a first team match previously. The Ibrox B team has lost all five matches in the SPFL Challenge Cup.
There has been no announcement on the hunt for a new manager from the club since the sugar-coated joint message from Andrew Cavenagh and Paraag Marathe two days after Martin was sacked.
With each passing day without a manager or leadership anger at The Americans is growing. They are no longer being referred to as the 49ers.
A media conference is expected on Friday but who hosts that will be of more interest than the match against Dundee United.
Ten days after sacking Martin there seems to be little progress made towards appointing his successor. Next Thursday the club faces a Europa League tie away to Brann Bergen. So far it is no points from two matches for the Thursday night specialists.
It gets more of a joke each passing hour,,,can’t keep up way it,,, record is a joke,,,
They could sign him, if they off-shored his pay
Sales of the Record rag must be falling down at a super fast rate again …like a blitzed Inaction with Two bottles of Vino Calypso in his pockets and a curry in his hand ? There’s a brand new the Rangers fable every day of all kinds of garbage typed up just to sell the rag to the blue side of wee Scotland.
Think I’ve found a way Sevco could get Slippy in the door.
Was reading online about these things called EBT’s…seems they are a way of paying staff in a manner that the taxman doesn’t need to get paid so therefor the club can bring in higher value signi………
Oh…..wait a minute……..
Just bookies relieving cretins of their pension and PIP money. Nothing to see here, folks!