17 Sep 2025 10:15:34
Why are a lot people interested in having gerrard back he literally won 1 title and that's when the fans where not in the stadium.
If we are going go for ex manager and they have money to spend and rather bring gio back
For me if club has ambitions to be the best then there is 3 managers I would trying tempt
Kjetil knustsen Nuno santos or Danny rohl
But I expect club will be looking at others and we will end up with none these.
17 Sep 2025 10:21:08
Craig Yes, but Gerrard needed time to get his squad together, then our rivals never beat us for just under two years, if Gerrard stayed he wins the league again imo, still wouldn't be in my top three though.
17 Sep 2025 10:32:42
Board likely looking for some manager from the English Championship rather than the likes of Nuno Santos.
17 Sep 2025 10:46:38
Yes gerard only won one title in 3 years but the first season you can't expect him to win a title with the squad he had.
That one title is also the only title we've won in 14 years, most people wanted gio sacked when he did get sacked, he took over in his first season ahead of Celtic with a title winning team and lost the league.
Why would you want gio back? i'm not sure i'd want either back but if i had to pick one, it would definitely be the manager who won the league without losing a single game.
Also really do not want nuno to be the manager, criticism of his teams has fallen under the same category of managers that would not work at Rangers ie struggling to break teams down who play very defensively.
17 Sep 2025 11:00:36
Let's be realistic, they wouldn't spend the money in the summer getting better in the door, this why we got this drip, so why would they now?
It would be great to get some of the names mentioned but honestly can't see it, do we trust Thelwell and Stewart to do it right this time, I don't, every day this carries on just fills me with more dread and frustration, these amazing new owners just seem to be either arrogant or incompetent.
And please no more we are in safe hands crap, they might be great at getting business deals done, but the business on the park is the only thing I care about.
Sort it out 49rs.
17 Sep 2025 11:03:36
Any one complaining that Gerrard only won one title is being a bit short sighted. In his first season he came in to a team that was finishing 3rd and was relying on guys like Worrall; Flanagan; McAuley; Halliday; McCrorie; Candeias; Middleton; etc. this was not a vintage Rangers team he walked in to. He made us better year on year until we won a title undefeated, and his reward was to get given guys like Bacuna and Ofoborh.
I'm not suggesting he's some kind of golden bullet here, or my first choice manager necessarily, but winning 55 was a fantastic output given the state we (and they) were in.
17 Sep 2025 11:11:24
Thelwell only knows the English market so expect a lower championship / league one manager to go with his players.
{Ed001's Note - surely the fact that he chose Martin shows he has no clue about the English market either?}
17 Sep 2025 11:15:24
But what a title to win?.
17 Sep 2025 11:28:08
Ed001, But Martin is the best manager he's worked him, that should highlight just how clueless he really is, it certainly has for me mate.
{Ed001's Note - either that or highlights just how bad the rest must be! Though if I was Nuno, I would be taking him to court right now for that comment. That has to be slander/libel, depending on whether it was in writing or he said it out loud. He has basically said Nuno Espirito Santo is absolutely useless at coaching.}
17 Sep 2025 11:34:11
Great point Ed ?.
surely we need to not look back when making these appointments. will be forever grateful for Gerrard winning that important title but took 2 years to build that squad. he was also the manager and had a coaching team who did all the work on the ground. that included Beale so what if he wants to recreate that perfect storm again.
what we need now is a manager to come in, unite the fan base and get what we have working straight away. who that is I have no clue but Gerrard still splits the fanbase so would get less time now than he did then. with Beale alongside I think the fanbase are fairly united ?.
17 Sep 2025 11:39:18
Agree Craig SG not the answer and no knows if we would have won league or not if he stayed as it's just an uneducated guess the same as if you say he wouldn't have. What I will say is what is fact he ran the 1st chance he could in the middle of the night and some think that's acceptable.
17 Sep 2025 11:42:14
100% my star, quite worrying if that's Thelwellls, thoughts and judgement. I think getting rid of Koppen was a huge error by the club, not all signings he made worked out but 2 of them have made us good profit on the investment with jefte and igamane and he was also spot on with his assessment of the English market not being good value.
17 Sep 2025 12:12:17
Never thought about that Ed001, that definitely rues him out of ever coming to Rangers (wouldn't happen anyway), he won't be interested in working with a man that said Martin was the best he has ever worked with.
Rfc 55, only my personal opinion but Thelwell should be also getting replaced.
17 Sep 2025 12:26:35
Did Gerrard have a bad squad when he first came in? Yes but guess what it took him 3 years to win 1 thing, 60 players used and multiple duds then claims he wasn't backed when in fact he's been the only one backed and he lost the league twice to Celtic's worst manager in the eyes of Celtic fans. He used Aribo out of position and never played Bassey.
Gio lost his best players then had players pushed on him and all his suggestions thrown out, the January transfer window we brought in Ramsey and Diallo when we needed a striker if we brought 1 in we'd of won the Europa league and the reason for not buying was we don't have money.
Clement had a mess in the boardroom, had to cut a wage bill and sell players before buying when we lacked depth and quality from the bench then players lost form despite that he started getting the better in Old firms. Our xG has halved since Clement left and we haven't got much better have we?
So why is Gerrard the only one allowed time to build? Celtic teams since were better than the ones he faced too. Both Gio and Clement won cups in the first few months.
17 Sep 2025 13:35:41
I don't know how anybody that watched Rangers at the time would prefer to have GVB back to Gerrard . His tactics were good to get to the Euro Final but it was with all Gerrards players . His record once he started to build his own team was terrible in Europe and domestically plus the football was poor and boring.
He brought in lots of players most of whom were rotten and some of whom we still can't get rid of ( Davies and Matondo to name but two) .
Nice guy, great player, crap manager.
17 Sep 2025 14:04:58
Ed and Mystar absolutely great points about Thelwell. How he can possibly say Martin is the best he's worked with is a head wobble.