Rangers fans reveal their choice of the two main manager options | OneFootball

Rangers fans have made their preference clear for the next manager: they want Steven Gerrard. An Ibrox Noise poll has given some fascinating insight into the choices the club’s supporters would make if they were sitting at the boardroom table—even though the results are not exactly a great surprise. In poll after poll, Gerrard is marked as the messiah. The return of a man who not only looks a bit like Jesus but who can walk on water if the occasion demands it. The legendary Liverpool figure is not only a name that commands respect but also a potential leader in the short, medium, and long-term, capable of reviving a very big club gone very flat.

Don’t get me wrong—Marco Rose is no lightweight. As a coach, he has had his moments with Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig, engineering the kind of tactical masterstrokes that could very well bring something different to Rangers Football Club. But therein lies a familiar problem: supporters want someone who understands the very beat of the club, not just another foreign experiment trying to crack the puzzling code that is Scottish football. Rose has never managed in Scotland. Gerrard, on the other hand, has, and with his first shot at the job, he almost did the unimaginable by getting Rangers to the summit of the Scottish Premiership, underpinning his second campaign as Ibrox boss by delivering a near knock-out blow to Celtic, the power in Scottish football for almost a decade now.

Looking at this poll is like witnessing a fierce derby played out on a Sunday afternoon, replete with ardent fans and high stakes. The din surrounding Ibrox is not mere static; it registers the club’s current of blood, sweat, and tears. Are we going to see a hiring decision that opts for the safety and soundness of past success, going with Steven Gerrard? Or will this potential hiring be the latest in a long line of foreign flops that have afflicted the Scottish game? If we were to define the fans’ noise level in terms of decibels, then surely just as many, if not more, supporters would have been registering their cries for Gerrard to stay on as they did for him to come back in the first place.

Emotion significantly influences these decisions. Steven Gerrard is more than a coach to his supporters; he is a symbol, embodying the identity and fighting spirit of their club. There’s something almost poetic about the fans’ steadfast backing of his potential return. It’s as if they’re rallying behind a captain who has been away too long. And the notion that this poll could sway the decision-makers at Ibrox isn’t far-fetched. Fans are an integral part of any football club, as much as some owners would like to think otherwise. Their collective dreams and vociferous support are powerful forces.

As the rumors intensify in Glasgow, it’s abundantly clear: if Rangers seek a spirited revival, the fans are adamant that Steven Gerrard is the right man for the job. The tactics of our last campaign weren’t too dissimilar from what we saw at Liverpool during his time as a coach there. Yet, in our current absence of grail, they seem to have “a bit more about them” and have formed the kind of gel between team and manager that you can only really articulate with that classic and incomparable “I just don’t know what it is, but it works” sort of feeling.