Former Rangers chief executive Charles Green has claimed he made an approach to bring Steven Gerrard to Ibrox as a player.
Green stepped into the role at Ibrox back in 2012 in the midst of the club looking to climb the ranks of Scottish football from League Two.
Since those days, Rangers have reclaimed the Premiership title under the stewardship of Gerrard.
Now Green, currently living in Dubai, has claimed he made an approach to bring Gerrard to Govan all the way back in 2013.
The Yorkshireman told talkSPORT host Jim White that a chance meeting in London with Gerrard's wife Ibrox Alex Curran at Mayfair Hotel sparked a bizarre transfer approach.
The former Liverpool captain was set to leave Anfield at the time, but opted for a move to LA Galaxy before taking steps into coaching.
Green said: "I will say something to you now, which will have everybody going mad Scotland, but when I was at Rangers, one day I had a meeting at the Mayfair Hotel in London.
"It was full, Mayfair Hotel, prior to Covid is always packed. In that lunch time meeting, a lady with some of her friends came in to the hotel and they were having a girls' party.
"It was Steven Gerrard's wife. I gave her my business card in my role as Rangers chief executive, and said I'd like to have a chat with your husband.
"Now, it never went anywhere, but I'd got a plan.
"That plan was instead of Gerrard going to America, his agent pushed him that way, was for him to come to Rangers as a player because he could still play at that point.
"That was in 2013, so these are the things that no one knows.
"Now, if you speak to Steven Gerrard's wife and there are at least 150 people in the Mayfair Hotel, and it's on cameras.
"Of course Jim, you've met some of my friends here with incredible wealth, that is what my second phase plan for Rangers would have been."
