{"id":491831,"date":"2025-10-11T20:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/491831\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:17:13","slug":"steven-gerrard-turns-down-rangers-return-after-talks-as-ibrox-club-seek-new-head-coach-following-russell-martin-sacking-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/491831\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Gerrard turns down Rangers return after talks as Ibrox club seek new head coach following Russell Martin sacking | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Gerrard will not return as Rangers head coach after stepping away from talks to succeed Russell Martin, Sky Sports News understands.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers held open and constructive discussions with Gerrard on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gerrard felt the timing wasn&#8217;t quite right for a return at this stage and confirmed that he did not want to continue in the recruitment process.<\/p>\n<p>Talks between Gerrard and Rangers were understood to be positive throughout and both sides agreed to leave the door open for the future.<\/p>\n<p>The former England captain expressed his gratitude for the continued support of the Rangers fans and wished the club every success for the season ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Gerrard won the Scottish Premiership with Rangers in 2021 before departing for Aston Villa shortly afterwards. He was then sacked by Villa after less than a year in charge, before taking up a role at Saudi Pro League club Al Ettifaq.<\/p>\n<p>He left that role in January after 18 months in charge.<\/p>\n<p>So what now for Rangers?<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skysports-danny-rohl-sheffield-wednesday_6904720.jpg\"   alt=\"Danny Rohl\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Danny Rohl is another contender who has impressed Rangers bosses in talks<\/p>\n<p>Former Sheffield Wednesday boss Danny Rohl has also impressed Ibrox chiefs during the process and remains in the race for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Rohl &#8211; who has been out of work since leaving the Owls in July &#8211; was sounded out by Rangers in the summer before the club appointed Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers chairman Andrew Cavenagh &#8211; who led the US takeover of the club in the summer &#8211; and vice-chairman Paraag Marathe have been holding talks with various candidates.<\/p>\n<p>They have been joined by 49ers Enterprises technical director Gretar Steinsson, Gers CEO Patrick Stewart and sporting director Kevin Thelwell in London for the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>After 123 days in the job, Martin was sacked last Sunday after a 1-1 draw at Falkirk, leaving Rangers eighth in the Scottish Premiership, 11 points adrift of leaders Hearts and nine behind rivals Celtic.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers return to action next Saturday as they host Dundee United at Ibrox in the league.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/rangers-scores-fixtures\/2025-09-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rangers&#8217; upcoming fixtures<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dundee United (H) &#8211; Scottish Premiership &#8211; October 18<\/li>\n<li>Brann (A) &#8211; Europa League &#8211; October 23<\/li>\n<li>Kilmarnock (H) &#8211; Scottish Premiership &#8211; October 26<\/li>\n<li>Hibernian (A) &#8211; Scottish Premiership &#8211; October 29 &#8211; <strong>live on Sky Sports<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Celtic (N) &#8211; League Cup semi-final &#8211; November 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Gerrard will not return as Rangers head coach after stepping away from talks to succeed Russell Martin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-491831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}