Steven George Gerrard MBE (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional football manager and former player who manages Scottish Premiership club Rangers.
He spent the majority of his playing career as a central midfielder for Liverpool, with most of that time spent as club captain, as well as captaining the England national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time,
Gerrard was awarded the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award in 2005, and the Ballon d'Or Bronze Award. In 2009, Zinedine Zidane and Pelé said that they considered Gerrard to be the best footballer in the world.
Alex Inglethorpe in Rangers director of football link as Liverpool Academy chief 'in frame' for Ibrox post
dailyrecord.co.ukLiverpool Academy chief Alex Inglethorpe is reportedly “in the frame” for the Rangers director of football role.The Ibrox side haven’t had someone in that position since Ross Wilson departed for Nottingham Forest last season but Rangers chief executive James Bisgrove admitted after Philippe Clement’s appointment that the club were in talks over filling the vacancy.And now The Scottish Sun report that Inglethorpe is someone under consideration.
The 51-year-old moved to Anfield just over a decade ago after spending six years at Tottenham Hotspur. Inglethorpe, who was a player at Watford, was initially Under-21s manager but stepped up to oversee the Academy.
Former Rangers boss Steven Gerrard worked under him during his time with the Liverpool youths before moving to Ibrox. Brighton's head of recruitment Sam Jewell was linked with the Rangers director of football role recently and Bisgrove said after Clement's appointment: “We feel we have got a really strong group of leaders that will implement the strategy and take key decisions, whether that’s player contracts or player acquisitions.“But all of that said, we do believe a director of football, a technical director is something that would add additional value and it’s a live conversation that we are having at the moment.”
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