09 May 2025 18:42:43
As I said weeks ago,
Russell Martin and Steven Gerrard still in contention for the job. No decision has been made yet.
Telegraph down south reporting it now.
09 May 2025 19:48:14
Newspapers are notorious for printing truth and facts. No one knows who has been spoken too. Only my opinion it's got to be a manager with experience in managing, we can't take gambles on another Gerrard or Beale type of manager.
09 May 2025 19:56:19
You have Coplandfront5 and fair play to you my friend ???I've always thought Russell Martin was in the running although he wouldn't be my preferred choice ?.
09 May 2025 19:57:31
Newspaper reporting it means nothing.
09 May 2025 20:01:18
Despite my extreme want of McInnes, but happy to settle for Rohl, I would absolutely love it if it's a name plucked from nowhere.
09 May 2025 20:04:58
Good info Copland ?.
09 May 2025 20:06:16
Rangers review ( credible source) says won't be anybody prev connected to the club surely rules then both out?
09 May 2025 20:17:54
I posted earlier but betvictor have Mcinness new fsv for the job Royal.
09 May 2025 20:18:33
BF still touting himself in the press conference. i'm not convinced a manager/ head coach has been chosen because surely he'd say no comment rather than continuing to throw his hat in the ring?
09 May 2025 20:18:51
Were a bit trapped really. It's in the papers interests to spin new rumours rather than stick to what they know (very little) . Need to generate those click by rotating the names.
09 May 2025 20:19:38
There's absolutely nobody knows anything for definite Paul ?So Royal Raskin you want derek mcinnes as our new manager mate ?.
09 May 2025 20:47:00
Papers might know nothing but it's true regarding Gerrard and Martin.
Martin has met them more than once too.
09 May 2025 20:56:15
McInnes is fav for hearts job that's his level as he is nowhere near Rangers level that's for sure.
09 May 2025 21:19:44
I'm probably in the minority but Russell Martin would be a good appointment, done really well at Swansea and was unfortunate at Southampton, apparently a few clubs interested in him.
09 May 2025 21:20:58
My gut feel as been Martin for a while, he seems to fit the same model they done with Leeds. I actually have expect a really tough transfer window and a tough season but let's see, I'll be happy to be way off.
09 May 2025 21:36:34
It's Stevie G no doubt about it?.
09 May 2025 21:45:37
@coplandfront5
Can confirm the managers name being spoken about within the team is neither Steven Gerrard or Russell Martin
Still don't have a name but my source has confirmed it's not one of those 2, u have mentioned.
09 May 2025 21:50:19
Do people just come on here and grab their rumours and spread them without looking at what's being reported "IT WILL NOT BE SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH RANGERS" Martin - ex Ger, Stevie G - ex Ger, McInnes - Ex Ger!
09 May 2025 21:55:47
CF5 how come you started off by saying "as I said". Has this been stated somewhere that's believable or just the papers.
09 May 2025 21:56:16
No I'm afraid it is David Martindale. no decision made as yet but it is in the east Lanarkshire chronicle. sorry but the telegraph say SG is on a long list of contenders. what are the chances of it still being a LONG list this late into the decision. yer it may be your opinion and it may actually end up being one of them but this is getting ridiculous the tenuous rationale behind why a manager you want is the actual choice.
09 May 2025 21:56:55
Martin has met the board twice.
Gerrard is the one however.
09 May 2025 22:07:21
Florida if it was a choice from the 4 listed today of martin o'neal Edwards and sg i'd 100% say Sg I doubt rohl due to compensation and Rose wage appears to big so our choices are narrowing.
09 May 2025 22:27:45
Just like souness, Walter, mcleish etc.
Multiple European donkeys. 1 semi successful.
Multiple Scotsmen, much success.
09 May 2025 22:38:10
Hearing Coplandfront also say he's heard the Gerrard rumour my mate passed on to me a while back it seems gives me confidence in my mates info
And Florida bear has also maintained he's also heard the same rumour
as much as I'm up for debating any possible manager I am going to be very surprised if it's not Gerrard given how confident my mate has been on his texts way before Gerrard was been touted by the bookies.
09 May 2025 22:58:03
I think it's important to recognise our new board are letting nothing slip and our current board have nothing to do with this appointment.
My gut feeling is it will be Russell Martin and I'm fine with it as I see a lot of pros to it as well as cons and everything seems to point towards long term planning rather than short term.
I'd also like to point out that this morning Chris Jack stated that the piece he wrote about it not being someone with historical links to Rangers was an opinion and not based on knowledge before going on to say the club are keeping their cards close to their chest. The reality is this appointment could be one of several options and there is no clear unanimous favourite.
09 May 2025 23:13:04
I'd only want SG back if he was Rafa Benitez's assistant.
09 May 2025 23:22:28
Floridabear -Not saying it will be one of those 2, but they have met with the club and that nobody has been offered the job. As for the others stated as being on the long list of contenders ( Gary O'Neil, Rob Edwards) I don't know about them, but Gerrard and Martin 100% in for it.
Angus, it's not an opinion. I don't have any reason to doubt my source especially when I posted it on here regarding those 2 before.
09 May 2025 23:47:29
Raskin, European donkeys? Gio sacked too soon and Clement was thrown under a bus by board and the players. Caixinha and le guen failures yes. Advocate successful.
The last successful Scottish manager we had was Walter and we won't get near a manager of his stature or commitment again. McIness can't even get a very well built killie side who have soon really good quality throughout there club playing decent football. There are currently no Scottish managers good enough for us apart from moyes. And he's not going to leave Everton for us. So you'll be stuck with a forgein manager more than likely.
09 May 2025 23:52:10
I'm confident our new, manager will be an individual no one considered as an option and to my knowledge whose name has, not been brought into the conversation.
09 May 2025 23:55:41
I have said from day 1 of 49rs news broke STEVEN GERRARD WILL BE BACK and i stand by that.
10 May 2025 01:16:46
Skybet must love this page lol, guarantee they're behind Gerrard's name being thrown in the mix.
10 May 2025 02:25:34
I don't believe it will be Gerrard, it'd be a huge step backwards.
10 May 2025 06:03:15
Absolutely no reason whatsoever to doubt Coplandfront5 on this info. ?
CoplandFront5, have you heard any info regarding Derek McInnes, mate? ?.
10 May 2025 06:51:56
I love it when posters start by saying - My source .
10 May 2025 07:26:00
Gerrard's name being thrown in the mix isn't down to any betting company. It's down to the people involved on both sides.
10 May 2025 08:11:50
So the Telegraph says that Gerrard and the other 3 are on a long list of managers which runs into double figures and a decision hasn't been made yet. an open race with no clear favourites so each of those has at best a 10% chance of being a manager. also there are foreign candidates but they don't mention any of those and I wonder why. and no mention of anyone having been spoken to, just a long list existing.
49ers are a well run business so what are the chances of that list still being so long and if discussions with candidates have taken place would those responsible not have discounted at least a couple of those. but no according to Telegraph we still are at a double figures list of candidates. I know what I think but I will leave each to make up their own mind.
10 May 2025 08:14:32
Yes Sam, donkeys. PLG, disaster. Caixinha, disaster.
Gio got is to a final but lost (started scott wright over amad btw) and a Scottish Cup. Threw away a 7 point lead and had us miles behind by October. Love him, but disaster.
Clement, won a league Cup he had 2 rounds of and Celtic weren't in. Worst football we've ever played, lost at home to queen's Park. Had us Miles behind and threw away a 5 point lead with 5 games left. Disaster.
Beale, don't get me started.
DA. Successful at the start, got bad extremely quickly.
We need a Scottish manager. Always have, always will.
10 May 2025 08:16:49
And re McInnes, a bad season doesn't make you a bad manager. Seem to be forgetting he got them European football.
And far far too many of you are too caught up on attacking football.
I couldn't care less what the style is, I want winning football. It could be 11 men behind the ball and 1 counter attack per game for all i care, as long as it brings trophies.
Too many people forget what's important.
10 May 2025 08:22:28
Don't know how many times it has to be said" it won't be anyone who has been associated with Rangers before" so there goes yer Gerrard and ther goes yer Martin.
10 May 2025 08:33:24
Just out of curiosity. How can people be so sure that someone has the managers job but journalists and other media sources aren't getting anything on it? You'd think if someone involved is telling their mates then that info would end up in the hands of certain journalists, who would then look into that info and either dismiss it or write an article on it?
10 May 2025 09:32:25
Florida bear, what makes you so certain it's Gerrard?
10 May 2025 10:05:42
Scottw exactly the point I try to make but do it really badly. the sources are bookies, the media, ex Rangers players yer none of those knew who the DoS was but we have suddenly become an open book. every time the media print a name which someone thinks it will be that suddenly shows that there source was right when it could just be 2 sources putting their opinion out there. could be coaches and others inside Ibrox saying who they think it is and that becomes the source from inside the club; yet that source has no inside knowledge.
10 May 2025 10:23:06
Mark I was told it was him 3 weeks ago by 2 different persons. One is a Rangers legend and the other very close to the first team. I posted about it at the time. From what they said I have no doubt it's him ?.
10 May 2025 10:29:40
Royal Raskin - think that's a crazy take mate. Firstly in terms of demanding a Scottish Manager because the 'foreigners don't succeed' look across the city. Brendan Rodger's (who by your metric would be foreign) and Ange Postecoglue just in recent times have won bags of trophies with Celtic which if we are being honest wasn't 'easy' Ange came in off the back of a Gerrard title winning side (also technically 'foreign' yet won a title) and managed to overcome us over his time here.
Brendan defeated Clement last season in what was definitely a very even two old Firm squads. So let's be clear here, if they can do it, why can't we?
Secondly- there really aren't many top quality Scottish Managers, Mcinnes is definitely not the answer especially when you say "don't care about the football just want winning football" firstly you just blasted Clement for "the worse football we'd ever played" but now don't care so long as it's a Scottish Manager? Which btw if they don't play attacking football won't get enough points to win titles.
We want so see good attacking football for certain (we pay good money for it) but it's also a practical necessity to break down these teams. The biggest problem with Clement ball was that it wasn't very attacking at all (at least not successfully) and relied on the counter.
All of this to say- we don't need a Scottish Manager, we need a good one or at least one that works for us.
10 May 2025 11:30:05
Kingandulster, it was only the opinion of Rangers review that stated our new manager wouldn't have any previous links to Rangers my friend, so that most certainly doesn't rule out Gerrard and Martin ?.
10 May 2025 11:49:56
Hoofball McInnes? nope no chance give your head a wobble.
10 May 2025 11:56:46
I think the new manager will come from USA or at least the Americas or have a strong connection to the region. They will look for a face as they see it not someone like McInnes.
10 May 2025 12:20:19
DF, I didn't say they don't succeed anywhere, just not here. They've had a few that have done the job. O'Neil, Lennon, Rodgers, Ange etc.
I also said I don't care about the style of football so long as it is winning trophies. Not being 14 points behind Celtic, out the Scottish Cup to Queen's Park at home and a trophyless season.
People will have said the exact same about hiring souness, Walter first time and mcleish.
10 May 2025 13:10:37
McInnes will be confirmed as Hearts manager over the next few days.
10 May 2025 15:49:58
Lemmi. No one from the board meeting prospective managers. Why would we allow individuals who r leaving to select a new manager.
10 May 2025 16:56:07
Raskin. Mciness failed pretty miserably at Aberdeen as well by the way he may have been in that job for 9 years but speak to Aberdeen fans they'll tell you it was around 7 years too long. He's simply not good enough.
Clement was thrown under the bus by the board ( promised money he never got, was stuck with 3rd choice transfer targets ) and the players who people in the know on here will tell you well and truly threw him under the bus for not getting there own way. As for gio starting Scott wright in that final was 100% right during the later stages of that season he was playing excellent ( had hit a purple patch ) and definitely had to start over diallo who if memory serves me right wasn't in the squad?
Scottish doesn't = success. We've got a die hard Scottish ex Rangers man in the dug out the now who can't even win us a game at home ?.
10 May 2025 18:26:03
So Thelwell the new Dof isn't in on the selection board to select our new manger/ coach?