Glasgow Rangers – who reached the 2008 UEFA Cup final while Kevin Thomson was at Ibrox – are slowly improving on Steven Gerrard’s watch.
Glasgow Rangers ex-player Kevin Thomson has outlined the kind of players that are needed at Ibrox and has suggested that Steven Gerrard may already be on the case.
The Ibrox club finished second in the Scottish Premiership in 2018-19 and claimed two morale-boosting home wins in the Old Firm derby which bode well for next season, but in terms of silverware, they unfortunately finished empty handed.
However, with nine draws and six defeats over the course of the league campaign, it suggests that there is still work to do in terms of ironing out some kinks and bolstering the squad further.
Thomson, who played for Gers between 2007 and 2010, is impressed with how Gerrard has overseen improvements within the team, the building, the culture of the club and the standards within the club.
However, the 34-year-old acknowledges that, at a club like Rangers, trophies are what the Ibrox faithful judge players on, and Gerrard is aware of this, hence the need to build a consistent outfit which can challenge for silverware.
“The word consistency is always there and the manager has said that himself,” Thomson, who won four trophies at Ibrox and reached the 2008 UEFA Cup final, wrote in the Evening Times. “He needs people he can rely on week in week out, that can give him 8/10 every week.
“It is not fives and sixes every couple of weeks, because they lose you points and when you lose those points, ultimately you get to the end of the season and you don’t have any trophies.”
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