Bristol City owner Steve Landsown is ready to make Glasgow Rangers manager Steven Gerrard the best paid boss in the Championship if he were to go to Ashton Gate, according to Football Insider.
Gerrard is currently on £50,000 a week at Ibrox, which is more than any Gers player.
Lansdown, though, is ready to improve that wage and make him the highest paid boss in England’s second tier. That would be more than the current best-paid manager, Marcelo Bielsa, who is on £60,000 a week – Gerrard would therefore earn more than £3.1m annually.
Lansdown is cleary desperate to take the former Liverpool man back south of the border – there have already been reports that Gerrard has absolutely no interest in leaving the 54-time Scottish champions as it stands (talkSPORT via Bristol Live), with him still having unfinished business in Glasgow.
With all due respect to the man in the Gers’ hot-seat, he has not really done enough to warrant such a pursuit – after all, he is yet to win a trophy north of the border, and although a run to the Europa League round of 16 is a positive result, his main goal is to get his hands on some silverware.
His playing career means that there will always be a desire to give him a chance as a manager, but his pedigree in this different role is not exactly through the roof yet – he has plenty more to do before he leaves the Gers.
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