Craig Beattie suggests Steven Gerrard will be sacked if Rangers don’t win the title

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Rangers left it late to secure arguably their best signing of the summer when they snapped up the services of Ryan Kent on Monday.

Craig Beattie has boldly suggested that Steven Gerrard will do well to survive as Rangers manager if he doesn’t win the title this season.

The former striker claimed that the Rangers board have ‘backed’ Gerrard very well this summer and he thinks nine-in-a-row could be stopped as a result of the players the club has brought in this summer and the key players they have kept.

It could be argued that the Gers left it late to secure the best purchase of the summer when they announced Kent’s arrival on Monday evening, as announced on Rangers’ official Twitter account.

Given what has happened over the summer, Beattie suggested to Clyde 1 (04/09/2019) that Gerrard is well aware that if he doesn’t produce then he might well be heading for the exit door.

“Now that the window has closed, you can access everything properly now,” Beattie told Clyde 1. “The key question for Celtic and Rangers is. Have Rangers does enough at this moment in time to stop nine-in-a-row? And I think they have.

“They have not sold any of their better players. They have kept Morelos. Tavernier is still there. Arfield’s still there. And they have recruited.

“I think Steven Gerrard knows when the board have backed him, then with those kinds of signings he has to deliver the title or he will be ‘see you later, Steven and we will go and try something else’. There’s heaps of pressure. But Steven Gerrard’s not daft. With the backing he has had, he knows if he doesn’t win the title he will do well to survive in his job.”

The Old Firm defeat at Ibrox over the weekend wouldn’t have helped Gerrard’s cause because many believe that is where the title will be won or lost.

Despite that early defeat, it is too early in the season to suggest what will or won’t happen, with the next Old Firm clash taking place in December.

By then a lot of things could change because along with Premiership actions, both Celtic and Rangers will be in domestic cup action as well their Europa League group games during that period.