He'll 100% get a championship job in the next 6 months despite nothing to suggest he's in any way a good manager. Rangers counts for sod all. Ferguson is still the last manager outside of Rangers and Celtic to win the Scottish League ffs
Steven Gerrard | Al-Ettifaq Manager
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I wonder will his ego push him on to try again. I could see a Rangers reunion. He can’t do too much worse than 2nd place there!
Gerrard's the only Rangers manager since Walter Smith to win the league with them to be fair. So I wouldn't say that achievement counts for sod all - not in this era, with Rangers still recovering from their demotion down the leagues and Celtic still benefitting from all the financial advantages over those years.
But obviously now they've got back up there then it's a poor effort to finish any lower than second with them - but as the sacking of all the other managers before and after Gerrard shows, finishing runners up to Celtic isn't deemed good enough and seen as failure so there's pressure there to win titles which, to be fair to Gerrard, he did. Which is why he wasn't sacked there and, instead, earned the Villa job.
Still, his other two jobs haven't gone well since Rangers so he's still got plenty to prove as regards his management ability. Like Lampard, I imagine it won't be long before we see him get a championship job.
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Although it doesn't mean he's a good manager, it's the only title they won in 15 years or so. He did a good job even if it is only the SPL.
Agreed. Don't think he's a good manager overall but still won the league with us against a Celtic team that had dominated, but were on the way down. It's still a notable achievement.
Must be eyeing up the Motherwell vacancy.....
Aye. The point people often forget with the Scotland-doesn't-count angle is that Gerrard had a fine record in Europe. For the most part, ironically, he struggled in Scotland to break teams down. It was his consistently solid showings in Europe (one year we were 15th in coefficient points across the whole continent) that kept him in a job before that title-winning season.
Mixed record all in all. Showed enough potential to be a decent manager, but many not enough to compete properly in the Premier League with the best managers in the world.
The awkward thing for Gerrard as far as being found out as a manager goes is that the guy so widely credited with his success in Scotland, Michael Beale, has also been found out as a manager by now.
It would be great if he became Liverpool manager.
It probably just shows how well the two fitted together, both covering the weaknesses of the other and enhancing each others strength.
Managing a team is teamwork in itself.
True but Beale then went out to Saudi to reunite with Gerrard and they couldn't recapture the magic.