Originally published at: https://www.rangersnews.uk/news/rangers-fans-calling-for-steven-gerrards-head-need-a-reality-check/
It’s been a long week, month, year so far as a Rangers fan. It’s fair to say 2019 has not yet gone to plan. But for some, a warming dose of reality could do no harm. There is no doubt we should be performing better domestically. There is no doubt that we should’ve beaten Aberdeen…
Steven Gerrard deserves to be given time to get things right at Ibrox. He has got us ahead of the rest in the league and the aim thereafter is to win it. He must get the time to do that and the next two transfer windows will determine if he is the man to do it. A trophy must be won in 2019/20 to show progress is truly being made. Keep believing. WATP
My worry is that is if some of these idiots don`t settle down the man will decide that its not worth the hassle and walk away .He has made mistakes but he has given the club back CREDIBILITY , we are news again , we are a big club again , we can attract decent players again.He rebuilt the squad quick enough to qualify through 4 rounds of Europe , gave us back big Euro nights in the groups , he has beaten Celtic for the first time since 2012 ( remember what the scores were last season ) , we are on course to at last take second place back in the league instead of scraping around for 3rd, winning is still not out of the question either.
We are just a bit short of quality still but having to make 20 signings just to build a squad, it is to be expected that there would be the odd failure or people who took time to settle . To me his big mistake was not finding a No 10 , creative goalscoring midfielder in January .With Windass away ( rightly) and Dorrans not fit we lack this type and it should have been addressed .We are close but we need to be patient and these twitter warriors need to be careful what the wish for.
We’ve got to face reality…the current team isn’t good enough to win a trophy. Even Guardiola couldn’t make this lot winners! We need to use money from sales of Morelos and Tavernier (not good enough to be a Rangers Captain) and buy a good, younger striker, with some of the money. The rest needs to be spent shoring up the defence. Apart from Goldson, nobody in defence has looked OK this whole season. Build strength at the back and use some of our very good youngsters…McCrorie, Middleton, to name 2.
Back in the summer, I forecast that Gerrard would be getting it in the neck by October, when we had to realise that we’re nowhere near the title. He did brilliantly to get the team to the League Stage of the Europa League and this put off the inevitable, until now!
Let’s give him the chance to do the job, without having to rely on players brought in by others…some who were brought in to get us out of the Championship…unlikely to win the Premier Division? He’s also got to focus on getting a younger group together. The Dad’s Army approach doesn’t work…Barton, Martin, McAuley, Davis and Defoe were/are on a Pension Top Up! That’s not the future?
Finally, loanees may be good players, but some lack the passion and desire. If they lose, who cares? Not them…they just go back to the ranch…not a lot lost!
Give Stevie G the time to build an exciting young team that can compete for years and stop the “What a hero, this week…Get him out FFS the next!”
It means “Get Real!”