{"id":16218,"date":"2025-10-09T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=645299"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:02:57","slug":"steven-gerrard-back-to-rangers-return-now-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/steven-gerrard-back-to-rangers-return-now-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Gerrard back to Rangers? Return now closer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard is reportedly in talks with Rangers for a return. The club is eyeing a manager who can just change the dynamics of the game and also get them to the winning ways like before. As Russell Martin was sacked a day ago, club move into Gerrard\u2019s negotiations. The negotiations are advancing and the deal is getting closer, as reported by Fabrizio Romano via Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish side, who recently sacked manager Russell Martin, are keen on bringing back a figure who can reignite their winning mentality and restore the club\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Gerrard, who previously led Rangers to an unbeaten Scottish Premiership title in the 2020-21 season, remains a highly respected figure among fans for transforming the team\u2019s fortunes during his first stint. His return is seen as a move to inject belief and passion back into the squad after a string of disappointing performances.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations between Gerrard and Rangers are progressing well, with the deal said to be getting closer. If completed, it would mark a major turning point for the club, and a chance for Gerrard to pick up where he left off in Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard is reportedly in talks with Rangers for a return. The club is eyeing a manager who\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1288,3796,4080,219,2136,4081,3940,4082,2132],"class_list":["post-16218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-aston-villa","tag-football","tag-gerrard","tag-liverpool","tag-rangers","tag-russell-martin","tag-sacked","tag-scottish-premier-league","tag-steven-gerrard"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}