Steven Gerrard appeared on the Overlap and was asked about his successful time as Rangers manager. 

The footballing legend spoke of his regret leaving the Ibrox club for Aston Villa in 2021 as he only lasted eight months in charge.

Gerrard made history and won the Light Blues their first league title in ten years and stopped Celtic doing ten in a row.

The Rangers faithful were devastated when Gerrard left as they were top of the league and were going in the right direction under his management.

The former England international said on the Overlap that looking back he wished he had stayed put at Rangers.

Hindsight is obviously one thing, but I can understand why he made the switch to Villa at that time.

Gerrard is a serial winner with extremely high standards – that’s why he was one of the best midfielders to ever grace the game.

After the Ibrox club won their 55th league title, the former board got complacent and took their foot off the gas.

Gerrard wanted to kick on and take Rangers to the next level and the board weren’t willing to support his demands and vision.

The Liverpool legend was frustrated and rightly so because he was proved right as the last title Rangers won was with Gerrard as manager.

Gerrard spent well with not a huge budget and delivered on what he was brought in to do – he was let down in his final season with poor recruitment and lack of funds.

The former England international took charge in 2018 and the club were in a complete mess.

He was able to build a team went on to become Premiership champions and Europa League finalists

The only negative thing about Gerrard’s tenure in Glasgow was that he should have won more, but he delivered the big one which was bringing that title back to Govan.

We can’t ignore the elephant in the room and gloss over the fact that Gerrard did knock Rangers back twice last year, but I can also see why he did.

For a starter, he didn’t feel comfortable working with former sporting director Kevin Thelwell and former CEO Patrick Stewart, and do you really blame him?

They were two horrendous appointments who were dismissed not long after Danny Rohl’s appointment, and rightly so.

If Gerrard was afforded the freedoms that Rohl has now got – he most likely would have took the job back in October.

But take nothing away from Rohl, who is doing an unbelievable job and has got Rangers right back into the title race – something many thought was impossible months ago.

The way Gerrard speaks about Rangers, you can tell he loves the club and that he still has unfinished business.

Rohl will eventually move on at some point but hopefully that isn’t for a long time.

Whenever that time comes, I would love to see Gerrard return to the Ibrox dugout and pick up right from where he left off.

He won the most important league title in the club’s history and ruined the biggest season in Celtic’s history.

I believe one day he will be back in that Ibrox dugout, and I really hope it happens.