Steven Gerrard has been linked with a couple of English jobs over the summer and, not surprisingly, hasn’t been interested in any of them given that none of them have been Liverpool.
In one of the more bizarre takes, Jamie O’Hara, speaking to Talksport (via The Scottish Sun), believes that the vacant Bournemouth job is bigger than the one he currently holds.
So what has O’Hara said?
The current Billericay Town Manager goes as far as to say who he thinks is the bigger club and that Gerrard would develop a higher profile at the recently relegated club:
“Rangers are a huge, huge football club but for me there’s only two teams in Scotland.
“Bournemouth is the potential – they’ve just dropped out of the Premier League – to get them back into the Premier League.
“They are a higher profile football team.
“I would take the Bournemouth job, it’s a bigger job.”
So is O’Hara correct?
He’s not even close. As recently as the early years of the 21st century Bournemouth have been as low as the fourth tier of English football and currently have a stadium with a capacity of little over 10,000 seats, they have no European pedigree and certainly don’t have a star on the Champions League emblem as one of the original competing teams.
What is the bigger job?
Rangers
Bournemouth
Rangers have had World Cup and Champions League winners play for them in their recent history and have appeared in numerous continental finals and, at the time of writing, are one of the most decorated sides in football.
Even if Bournemouth were still in the Premier League, few people of sane mind would share O’Hara’s opinion that the Cherries are a “bigger job” given that the pressure and expectancy to win every week is on a different level at Ibrox.
In every corner of the world there are Rangers supporters clubs and football fans that will be more than aware of the Light Blues, the same can’t be said of a team that will soon be lost to the mediocrity of the English lower leagues.