03 May 2025 08:57:24
Thestigno1 and Florida bear, i'm now told the exact same as you guys have stated all along and well done to both of you if this indeed is the case ?I'm told that steven gerrard will be coming back as our manager and will be announced when it can be announced, take out of that what you will, but that's honestly what i've just been told ?.
03 May 2025 09:41:55
Walter, this story does seem to be gathering pace.
Time will tell. Don't think we'll have to wait too much longer.
03 May 2025 09:51:37
Will you be betting on that one as well SWS.
03 May 2025 09:52:28
I'd be disappointed if there's any truth in this, don't think SG is the answer, we need a totally fresh start, seems like a step back if we go with SG.
03 May 2025 09:53:48
If that's the case SWS then it's a poor decision by the new owners. SG was unsuccessful one trophy in 9 is a poor return and that decision would instantly create a divide between the fans. Surely they don't want to start their tenure like that? I've said this before, it's a new era for the club, we should be looking forward and laying foundations to be stronger and successful in the future, not looking to the past. If it's true mate then it wouldn't be very inspiring. SG was idolised, then left like a thief in the night as soon as the EPL came calling.
03 May 2025 09:56:07
Marco rose with SG as a no.2 ?.
03 May 2025 10:06:43
Will fully support him but I don't think it's the right move.
03 May 2025 10:23:05
We need to evolve so would like a fresh appointment. Thanks Stevie g., but you had your time.
03 May 2025 10:24:48
My opinion Gerrard will not be the Rangers manager, simple reason, I just can't see our new owners appointing a manager the majority of the fans don't want anywhere near Ibrox.
03 May 2025 10:39:24
I would rather we got someone other than Gerrard however wouldn't mind him coming back. however this 1 in 9 p*** is tiresome do people forget the squad he inherited yes the 55 season we should of maybe had the treble Gerrard took a basket case of a club and got us regularly beating that lot and got us our respect back on the European front.
he's the only manager that has won us a title since we got back to the top flight and I personally feel a lot of people don't appreciate how he actual done up here because they feed in to the narrative Celtic fans created with this 1 in 9 s****
03 May 2025 10:49:45
Don't take this the wrong way My star but maybe the new owners don't care they will be shrewd they will make decisions based on their data and they will make decisions they will feel are the best ones for the club with sustainably success and profit coming into it
I don't think they will bow down to any fan pressure like previous boards
SWS it's the information I had received a while ago which I've reiterated on here to share
It might turn out very good info or maybe it won't
I was told Gerrard was offered it and Barry has been offered the number 2 but Barry at time was keeping options open.
Again it's hearsay until it's confirmed to what my friend told me.
I will say this if it happens to be true I have an incling Gerrard maybe used to steady the ship whilst the 49ers and co get into their stride
He knows the club and the training facilities he obviously had a vision he put to board before which I believe they knocked back and as he mildly put it himself wasn't going to get backed the way he wanted to push on after 55 and strengthen the team
He deemed fit to continue to be successful
I think if Gerrard does get put in place he maybe hear for a couple years and then we might go for a more astute manager depending obviously on what success we have.
But again I've said from the start time will tell.
03 May 2025 11:04:56
You can ready see it. Large section of the fans slaughtering the new owners after one decision, before we see what happens.
03 May 2025 11:05:19
My star how do yiu know the majority of fans don't want SG? On another fans site it was 60/ 40 for and tbh I don't want a board who make decisions on how popular they are with fans. I'd prefer Rose or Twrzic but will back whoever we appoint.
03 May 2025 11:12:35
Although as you say star possibly the majority would like to go in a different direction from Gerrard but a think the vast majority would get behind him if it was him appointed.
03 May 2025 11:22:55
1 in nine is not p*** or s**** - it is an unadulterated FACT- I appreciated the 55 but today we need better than SG
I for one will not back SG to get the job but if he gets it I can do nothing more than support the decision - but hopefully fresh board fresh ideas needs fresh new manager to progress our club and that for one is not our Covid Season winning manager. Gerrard (who has done what since leaving us? ) ?.
03 May 2025 11:32:37
Not posted for a while but have enjoyed reading the posts on the new manager rumours, got to be honest and say I don't have a preferred target but what I do hope is that the new man whatever nationality understands and gets the importance of winning the bread and butter games which has let us down badly this season, looking at the current squad then it's obvious we need a number of players with better quality, added to that some much needed pace, strength and above all strong character.
If it's the likes of Rose then hopefully he grasps this pretty quickly.
Be good to get a win tomorrow to get a bit of good feeling back and looking forward to the new changes.
03 May 2025 11:58:43
Blue-Floyd it may be "FACT" but maybe add a bit of context to it then. It's no surprise better managers than gerrard have come in and had no success in the league Gerrard deserves a hell of lot more respect than some give him that other lot where lights years ahead of us financially and Gerrard has been the only manager in the last 9 years since we come back up to the top flight to win us the league. I want a better manager than Gerrard as others do but look how that has worked out with the last ones we have had like clement and gio.
03 May 2025 12:02:14
Either way (Gerard or rose or someone else) I'd really like it if we could make the appointment quickly after the OF and let them start working with the players now so they can start laying the groundwork for next season asap. Don't think there's any benefit from letting fergie finish the season.
03 May 2025 12:10:23
JasonGriegg…. whether you think it's a narrative or not 1 in 9 trophies is sh**te. Yes 55 was massive but he bailed on the club as soon as he could after conning the fans saying he looked happy. Almost relegated Villa whilst spending a fortune and has done heehaw in Saudi. If he is to be the new manager then it wouldn't be a popular appointment imo but would still get my support. Just think this is a fresh start and we should be looking to move in a new direction.
03 May 2025 12:12:03
Yes shrewd business men stingo, but shrewd business men don't not appoint a football manager that has failed.
03 May 2025 12:13:48
On data stingo? well Gerrard wouldn't even have been looked at then mate.
03 May 2025 12:35:34
RFC I'm in no way cheerleading for him to be our manager i'd rather we didn't but I hate seeing the 1 in 9 thing people need to look at the bigger picture of where we was at as a club at the time and how far Celtic where ahead of us financially.
03 May 2025 12:08:58
See this morning when all those videos of Gerrard declaring his love for Rangers started popping up it looked to me to be a pr move.
Stranger how 3 diff videos pop up out of nowhere on the same day and at this time.
I absolutely won't be shocked to see his name unveiled on Monday.
03 May 2025 13:02:28
Correct OWS ? My star i actually know a lot of Rangers season ticket holders who want gerrard back as manager mate ?I most definitely do not believe/ think for one second that the majority of our supporters don't want steven gerrard back ?.
03 May 2025 13:04:08
One in nine is not great but when he took over we were battling to be third and were a shambles, so it was obvious that it would take a while to get things right especially first season .
The big disappointment was the title winning season because that team was good enough to win the treble.
Still, I don't think you can call the only manager to win the league in 14 years a failure. What does that say about the rest?
03 May 2025 13:04:51
Gerrard being appointed after the takeover will be very underwhelming.
03 May 2025 13:05:46
If so, it'll be absolutely massive Stevie G new. The whirlwind will start to blow through Scottish football with the right backing!
03 May 2025 13:07:55
Thing is with Gerrard, we were operated like an absolute rubbish show and he still managed to win the league.
This time, with the experience from the first time and a proper operation above him and a well selected backroom staff. Surely see's a more success spell than the first. ?.
03 May 2025 13:18:54
I hadn't loved a manager like I did gerrard since Walter and I haven't loved one like him since.
I'd back him to the hilt if he came back.
People act like turning what he walked into into an invincible league winning team means nothing.
He went to a tin pot villa who got their act together and hired one of the best in the world when he left, and he went to saudi to one of the worst teams who aren't state funded for the wage, like anyone would do.
The slander he gets is frankly ridiculous.
03 May 2025 13:20:10
Sws, I have rakes of friends that are Rangers men and not 1 has wanted him back.
03 May 2025 13:21:17
I know more 20 that don't sws.
03 May 2025 13:35:29
So my question is did this come from Cavanagh, Marathe or Thelwell. If not then apologies but it is a rumour. and yet another thread that comes from it which goes on and on about 1 in 9. so I have been told by my source that it will be Ange Postecoglu. My source is my English Springer spaniel but he has as much clue about it as most of the other sources. sorry but becoming very tiresome. yes scroll past and don't respond.
03 May 2025 13:39:14
Agree Jason, I'm sick to the back teeth of the 1 in 9 pish that was initially peddled across the city. As you say, with the mess Stevie inherited from the Pedro disaster, it's no wonder he took time to get a winning team on the park. Let's not forget, before he left he regularly got the best of Celtic and was only let down at the end by the board imo.
03 May 2025 13:54:37
1 in 9 yes,
Oh, but how important was that 1!
He got us all believing and competing again after years of fighting our way back from the bottom league.
Personally I think it's more likely not to be SG, however whoever it is no matter whether it's SG or someone else, let's give him and the new owners our full backing which with the tough task lying ahead they will undoubtedly need.
As SG would say "Let's Go".
03 May 2025 14:07:46
End of day it's not the fans who pick and we will back who is officially appointed until the fans decide it's not working and may once again want the Keaton removed
But this time around the board might not be so easily swayed to make such a decision.
I don't care who it is as long as as they are well backed we get the right players and we see exciting attacking football and most of all were successful
If that happens and it was Stevie G I'm sure everyone in here who doesn't want him will be singing his name fact!
03 May 2025 14:26:46
I would say it's 50/ 50 the fans split right down the middle and do the new owners want a split fan base? I very much doubt it would be crazy on their part.
03 May 2025 14:27:17
Seeker it's peddled by everyone because it's the cold hard truth mate.
03 May 2025 14:35:50
Was over 550 on here voted 73% against.
03 May 2025 14:40:04
Those stats are a prime example of how they can be manipulated to suit an agenda.
Yes, Gerrard should have won more silverware, but the shambles he inherited was something else.
03 May 2025 13:45:38
Is that all My star ?.
03 May 2025 14:44:56
That's right Jason, don't let the truth get in the way. How did you class his next 2 appointments?
03 May 2025 14:47:32
You think 50% would not back him if he came back storm? the same as any other manager mentioned they will get backed by the fans even though a lot will not be keen about their appointment, let's be honest not a standout manager out there that every fan would say yes too.
03 May 2025 14:51:46
Totally with you Seeker ? spot on my pal ???.
03 May 2025 15:05:13
This conversation has been on here about 3 times now?.
03 May 2025 15:45:17
Sws are you talking about is that all?
03 May 2025 15:23:58
Can't believe how many diss him saying 1 in 9 is ? when he's the only manager to actually win us the league since coming back up!
Who cares if you don't want him back. Even I give him credit for winning us 55 when I didn't want him when he was here but looking back it's not just his fault players are at fault and bottled it the recruitment team was also at fault and he did inherit a rubbish playing squad.
he's done better than any other manager since we came back up given he stopped 10 won 55
Who cares you don't want him back but some respect won't go a miss from some Rangers supporters on here
Did some of you not celebrate 55 then I take it ??.
03 May 2025 15:44:23
Over 550 that's absolutely nothing on the grand scale My star ?I have no doubt if gerrard does get our manager's job our supporters will absolutely back him to the hilt and will show he was wanted ?
I'll reiterate, Gerrard isn't my no.1 choice either, but i don't think it's a bad or terrible choice if he's appointed because i still think gerrard will make a good manager, just my opinion ?.
03 May 2025 15:48:33
Pieter Huistra i'll answer your question my friend if that's ok mate ?Gerrard was nowhere near ready to go and be manager of a big english premier league club in villa and over in saudi football, i certainly wouldn't hold that against him ?He would have retained the scottish premiership title if he'd been backed properly to kick on and stay in front of the rangersitis mob but his ambition was way too much for park and co at the time ?He had us 7 points clear before he left for villa ?.
03 May 2025 15:52:04
Pieter he done poor at Villa which I think we can all agree on but much better managers have went to the prem and done the same as for Saudi he joined a one of the clubs which wasn't state owned and his first season he done ok and finished where ettifaq usually place in there league same with where he left this them season. Do people expect him to go Saudi and compete with the state owned clubs?
03 May 2025 15:53:17
Lads . A freak Covid season alongside a Timplosion handed us the title imho - much though I loved the 55 and there and then I totally was behind SG - but with potential for much investment and backing/ exposure from 49rs - I believe there is better out there than SG (a man who will jump ship again when better offer comes in) -?.
03 May 2025 15:54:07
He'll need a very good assistant then because Gerrard is lost without it sws, maybe the coach we've got now, obviously Gerrard would be backed but I'd prefer better.
03 May 2025 16:14:19
Blue Floyd now you are at it ? a timplosion handed us the title are you for real ? we went unbeaten broke the record for least goals conceded but aye Celtic handed us the title.
03 May 2025 16:19:04
Definitely wouldn't want Beale as his assistant.
I didn't like the way Gerrard left us, but in his defence, it's tough to turn down the EPL.
03 May 2025 16:30:02
Coopersdad where did I say that? Jesus Christ what's wrong with you? 5050 on they want SG as next manager and don't want.
03 May 2025 16:31:07
Jason - r u trying to make us sound like Man City in those days? - no fans / Covid - them failing - It's consistent titles we need and don't think SG is the man for that IMHO?.
03 May 2025 16:31:18
I know 21 season ticket holders and it 50/ 50 with regards SG back.
03 May 2025 16:31:33
Thestig you are losing it again. He lost some fans respect when he snuck out the back door at night.
03 May 2025 16:43:17
So using that same logic that facing in the EPL doesn't mean you are a bad manager then if we get a manager who has failed say in the Bundesliga then that wouldn't make them a bad manager either. just saying we need to be reasonable in who we expect will be willing to come to Scotland.
03 May 2025 16:47:15
You have every right not to want Gerrard back but to imply that we only won the league because Celtic had a timplosion and covid is laughable ? that's the sort of stuff persons come out with.
03 May 2025 16:54:34
TJBB I was using that for him.
03 May 2025 17:07:36
Same argument same topic waste of energy, just rinse n repeat.
03 May 2025 17:17:47
Jeezo folks the stress levels in here are unreal.
Do I want Gerrard. No. Did he win 1 in 9? Yes. Did he inherit a rubbish squad? Yes. Should be have won more? Yes. Did he bring back belief and stop the 10? Yes.
All points made can be true. But I think the impatience is starting to get to a few. At the end of the day the gaffer will be whoever is selected and we may feel happy or disappointed but we will all back whoever is selected and hopefully Thelwell and the 49ers can find the players we need to make improvements. Let's all calm it down and stop getting on at each other lol.
Each manager mentioned has multiple pros and multiple cons. As anyone in any job or position does.
03 May 2025 17:47:15
Good post AyrshireMurphy ???.
03 May 2025 17:57:17
Jason no need to get snidey because others have opinions different from yours regarding our cataclysmic season of one win from 9 ?
ie its not stuff - it's an OPINION?.
03 May 2025 18:07:39
Where's the snide ? I find your statement about Rangers only winning the league due to a timplosion and covid laughable what's snide about it?
03 May 2025 18:36:55
How am I losing it ?
Just saying it how it is mate
Read my post above whether it's him you or my neighbour I just want the club successful and want to see decent football and the recruitment needs to be better
Let's just wait and see who it is
Whoever it is I hope he gets the backing a successful manager needs and I think they will.
03 May 2025 19:17:43
Snide refers to the fact u implied people were talking s**** - when in fact it is an opinion I am stating - an opinion that anyone can have and should be clearly entitled to?.
03 May 2025 19:22:11
Ayrshire you are right but the same people keep on starting a post about Gerrard every single day and it results in this toxic discussion. so everyone we know what everyone's opinions are on this so before you start to even type a post re SG think about what affect it has on the forum.
03 May 2025 19:22:21
Coops you can't say he would have won the title if he didn't sneak out the back door as no one knows what would happen. You can say you think he would have.
Ps he wouldn't have tho ?
The stig you are losing as you are saying you can't believe how many diss him ? he was a failure and snuck out the back door because he new he wasn't winning the title that season.
03 May 2025 19:31:46
Let's not forget that Gerrard took us to group stages from first qualifier which brought in some much need cash and built a bit of a good European form, last game against ufa was 9 men or something at one stage, Gerrard inherited a very poor squad an actually brought some fight back in to us, yea he had bad moments but he stopped 10 on a row, should have actually had more cups but daft errors and probably the fact the players at the time weren't what Gerrard would have picked but best he had at the time, the club wasn't in the best shape and massive injury lists etc also played it's part, Gerrard will always be looked fondly from me done what he was brought in to do, took a bit of time but come on Celtic were absolutely dominant winning constant trebles think people need to cut the guy some slack, never once bad mouthed us and untilled som belief and respect back to the club.
03 May 2025 20:12:14
Blue Floyd please re read through my replies and quote me on where I implied people were talking s****? i merely stated the statement you come out with is the type of stuff Celtic fans come out with lol.
03 May 2025 20:17:53
Hi My Star, wasn't a dig mate, as a math man I like a maths joke lol.
03 May 2025 20:28:57
He left because he knew he wasn't winning the title that season. ??
03 May 2025 20:54:43
Jason - i'm sure we both want / need the best for Gers even if our opinions differ?whoever next manager is I will follow on.
03 May 2025 21:20:51
Mixed feelings on Stevie G coming back. It's been discussedquite a few times in here can relate to a lot of people's opinions either for or against his return. Since our return back to the Scottish premiership he's the only gaffer to bring us a league title. Some good nights in Europe as well. I was very excited when he became our manager but the way he left has never sat right with me. If he returns I will obviously back him again. So many different opinions and rumours on who out next manager is. All good for discussion. I genuinely think no one knows for sure. We will just need to wait and see.
03 May 2025 22:59:47
SWS that's utter nonsense. He was 7 points clear when he left.
We'd have won the league again but done nothing in europe, and getting automatic CL football the season after.
04 May 2025 07:09:43
Raskin read my post mate ?It was a sarcastic laugh regarding storm saying he wouldn't have won the league ?If you read my original post i said steven gerrard was 7 points clear and imo would have won the league if he had stayed ?I've continually said that Raskin and i've stated why he left before mate ???.
04 May 2025 08:24:23
That is one of the reasons he left that is my opinion the same as you are allowed yours coops. Difference is anyone who has a different opinion to you isn't allowed one ?.
04 May 2025 21:41:54
I think a bit of pot calling the kettle here storm ? You're by far the most divisive character on here pal, bar none!