Steven Gerrard involved in fresh Saudi twist as shock job offer comes to light

Steven Gerrard has travel nether unit successful caller weeks aft overseeing a mediocre tally of results, but the Al-Ettifaq caput manager volition present beryllium moving with a new-look enactment team

Al-Ettifaq person each but confirmed Steven Gerrard volition stay successful complaint by offering Michael Beale a relation connected the erstwhile Liverpool star's coaching team.

Gerrard, 44, has been successful complaint of the Saudi Pro League outfit since July 2023 but scrutiny has grown connected him successful caller weeks owed to a winless tally which stretches each the backmost to September.

That tally has near Al-Ettifaq 12th successful the league and led to the club's powerbrokers taking banal of Gerrard's presumption recently. Two salient members of his backroom unit - adjunct manager Dean Holden and Mark Allen, the club's sporting manager - were fto spell earlier this month aft nine meetings.

It was speculated that Gerrard had been granted a enactment of execution pursuing their exits. And the imminent accomplishment of Beale is different motion Gerrard remains successful favour.

The Athletic archetypal revealed that the duo, who won the Scottish Premiership during their three-year spell astatine Rangers, are acceptable to reunite successful the Middle East with Beale 'close' to agreeing presumption with Al-Ettifaq.

Since that spell, Beale has launched his ain managerial vocation and had a spell successful the Rangers blistery spot himself, though helium lone lasted 10 months successful the role. He has been unattached since leaving Sunderland, wherever helium was sacked aft conscionable 12 games successful charge.

Gerrard moved to Saudi Arabia with the volition of rebuilding his managerial vocation pursuing a hard spell astatine Aston Villa, but things person not gone to program for the erstwhile England midfielder overseas.

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He did, however, usher Al-Ettifaq to a sixth-place decorativeness during his maiden twelvemonth astatine the helm and was handed a two-year declaration hold backmost successful January astatine a clip wherever question marks were already being asked of his tenure.

Speaking recently, Gerrard fronted up successful the aftermath of Al-Ettifaq's mediocre signifier but remained defiant successful the aftermath of suggestions that his clip astatine the nine was up.

He said: “We indispensable carnivore responsibility, and proceed to close mistakes. I americium alert of the team’s mediocre past results, and I bash not deliberation I person reached the signifier of dismissal from squad management.”

Al-Ettifaq instrumentality to enactment this play erstwhile they look ninth-placed Al-Riyadh connected Sunday.

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