What Steven Gerrard admitted to Ally McCoist about Celtic is the real reason he bailed on Rangers

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Steven Gerrard walked away from Rangers the season Ange Postecoglou plotted Celtic’s return to the top.

Postecoglou dominated Scottish football as Celtic blew Rangers and the rest of the SPFL opposition away with his swashbuckling attacking football.

Gerrard won one single trophy out of ten as Celtic gave the Liverpool legend nightmares over his four-year spell at Rangers.

And in a sit-down interview with Ally McCoist, Gerrard admitted what he knew was going to happen at Celtic when Postecoglou arrived was the real reason he walked away from Rangers.

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Steven Gerrard left Rangers because he ‘knew’ Celtic would dominate

It took Gerrard three years to win a trophy at Rangers and when he did, Celtic responded and it appears that the response made him walk away from a real challenge.

Gerrard told Ally McCoist’s Social Club, “Even though we’d won the league and we’d been unbeaten, I didn’t feel that group of players could go on and dominate.

“We knew Celtic were going to change. They brought in Ange and they got stronger because they were going to throw money at it.

“So it was very important to me that we got what we wanted in that summer and we never. We never.

“I asked for £6m and I didn’t get £6m. We had targets. We didn’t get the targets.”

Celtic’s trophy record with Steven Gerrard as Rangers boss

Make no mistake about it, Gerrard was a failure at Rangers. Yes, the press and the Ibrox support will paint the narrative that he won the only title that mattered, but Celtic’s domination has prevailed.

Here is what Celtic won during and immediately after Gerrard’s Rangers tenure:

• 2018: Treble

• 2019: Treble

• 2020: No trophies

• 2021: 1 x Scottish Premiership, 1 x League Cup

• 2022: Treble

• 2023: 1 Scottish Premiership, 1 x Scottish Cup

• 2024: 1 x League Cup, 1 Scottish Premiership

This season, Celtic will fight out a title battle with Hearts with the chance to win another double available. Rangers, on the other hand, will likely finish another season trophyless.

Gerrard was right to walk away when he did because, let’s face it, Celtic would have just humiliated him further.