Former Liverpool Player Appointed Rangers Manager

Ex Liverpool player Steven Gerrard will relinquish his role as?Liverpool?Under-18s manager. Instead, he will join the?Rangers?in a managerial role on a four-year contract.

The former England and Liverpool captain won nine honours as a player. Now, he is looking forward to adding more silverware, this time for the Rangers.

They still have 3 matches remaining, against Kilmarnock, Aberdeen and Hibernian respectively. However, Gerrard will be absent from the dugout until the summer.

He said: ?I am honoured to become the next manager of Rangers.

?I have enormous respect for this football club, and its history and tradition.

?I can?t wait to start this new journey at Rangers as we look to build on the many successes that this club has achieved.?

The 37-year old succeeds Graeme Murty, who was sacked after a 5-0 thrashing to Celtic.

Rangers are currently third in the Scottish Premiership, 13 points behind champions Celtic. Dave King, Rangers chairman believes that Gerrard is the right man to turn the club?s fortunes around.

He said: ?We are delighted to confirm today that Steven Gerrard will become the next manager of Rangers.

?From the very beginning, talks have been extremely positive and we believe that Steven is the right man to drive Rangers forward.

?He was extremely impressive throughout our negotiations and we are convinced that he has the necessary knowledge and temperament to lead the club to the success we all desire.

?This a special day for our club, our fans and for Steven.?

Gerrard will be joined by Gary McAllister who will be fulfilling the role of an assistant. Now, the race is on to find someone who can take over the role of manager of the Liverpool U-18 team.

Previously, it was Gerrard who was filling up that role. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was initially sad to see a player/manager of his calibre go, but was happy for the Englishman nonetheless.