Barrymoped
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And that’s usually after the collective aneurysm starts anytime one of our players get within 30 yards of goal and roars of “shooooot!” start.
Official Giovanni van Bronckhorst appointed Rangers manager (all updates)
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cyl1690
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I was actually going to add that bit in on my post
stefanovitch
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Gerrard was well know for liking a shot from distance so I don't think the coach can do much with players like Kamara and Davis who simply don't have that ability.
cyl1690
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I'll try and get enthused about it, the next time the cross into the box hits the first man and goes out for a shy. Still don't get why when we work the ball into a shooting position at the edge of the box, we feel the need to sometimes pass back out wide again. But then again, as somebody else points out above, when you see some of the shooting during the warm-up, maybe this is the reason why!
On his way to the supplier for his brogues.
Dear oh dear.
Bigbluebear
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Tav has struggled as the left side has been non existent due to Borna and Kent being injured. Teams can't double up on him now that they are fit again, especially Kent.
Bigbluebear
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Alternatively they could shoot and have the shot blocked, which is what would happen most of the time.
WalterLoyal
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Derek Ferguson thinks Billy Dodds could be part of Gio's coaching team. 
Barrymoped
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The Ferguson brothers never were the brightest.Derek Ferguson thinks Billy Dodds could be part of Gio's coaching team.
WilkinsBullet
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Went after Tristan first I think.
I’m being cheap - anyone with an Athletic sub to do the copy and paste honours?
Lovenkrands Dug
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No mention of the carnage party in Amsterdam then?
I’m being cheap - anyone with an Athletic sub to do the copy and paste honours?
Amato15
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What happens in the dam stays in the dam
Kevin.Ahoy
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Yea it was Tamudo was it dick or Walter that tried to sign Jardel
Walter. Dick was tamudo mpenza tristan
Yes please. Anyone with an Athletic sub, this is your chance to do some charity and help out us wee guys, eh? We're just like the young team, come on, pleaaaasseee...
I’m being cheap - anyone with an Athletic sub to do the copy and paste honours?
OzzyGersman
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Mate this warrants its own thread so that the clowns in our support who criticise him every game can see that even if he will depart the club he is committed to winning this title. You see anytime we concede he is the most devastated on the pitch and when we score he’s the first to run from the back to celebrate with the team.
cyl1690
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It's the amount of time it's laid back to somebody when they have space and they decide not to shoot that is infuriating
The speed of Steven Gerrard’s departure from Rangers to Aston Villa was so breakneck that, for many Rangers fans, the whiplash has still not set in.
It was only last week that he had been talking with a dead-eyed focus about his players coming back fit for the semi-final against Hibernian after the international break, yet four days into it, and the same period after Villa had sacked Dean Smith, he was being photographed with a claret and blue shirt.
Gerrard said that he was only informed about the interest on the day before his unveiling. “When the phone call sunk in, I wanted it to happen very quickly. First and foremost, the opportunity was too big and, from there, it happened so quickly,” he said.
If the speed and timing of Gerrard’s exit are what has created a sense of resentment among a section of the Rangers support, then the appointment a week later of Giovanni van Bronckhorst as the club’s 17th permanent manager has swiftly completed the grieving process for the vast majority.
Not many would have envisaged replacing Gerrard with someone boasting an even more glittering playing CV, but the 106-cap former Netherlands international does that.
Two KNVB Cups with Feyenoord, five trophies with Rangers under Dick Advocaat, a Premier League and FA Cup with Arsenal, two La Liga titles and a Champions League with Barcelona, as well as captaining his country in the 2010 World Cup final to end his career.
Management has not been too unkind to him, either. He joined Ronald Koeman as an assistant at Feyenoord in 2011 before taking the reins in 2015. He won the KNVB Cup in his first season before ending an 18-year wait for a league title the season after. He followed that up with another KNVB Cup and two triumphs in the Super Cup, which is known as the Johan Cruyff Shield in the Netherlands.
He ticks the big-name category but his arrival means that Rangers have achieved an unusual holy trinity when it comes to managerial appointments.
They have chosen someone with a CV who, from a dispassionate viewpoint, has an impressive record of success at a big club, especially under the intense pressure of the De Kuip crowd at Feyenoord. He plays with a 4-3-3, which means there will be a strong degree of continuity from Gerrard’s tenure and should ease the transition mid-season. He knows the club and that means the fans are on side to the extent they have a new anthem lined up in his honour.
Pre-empting appointments is part and parcel of modern football, whether that is anticipating a potential manager’s availability or noting their desire to join your club.
The latter is how you could describe Van Bronckhorst’s passion for the role as The Athletic understands that Rangers were made aware of his interest in taking over, whenever the vacancy should arise, after Gerrard was linked with Newcastle United in October.
Wilson, front, has led the way on Van Bronckhorst’s appointment (Photo: Craig Foy/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Ross Wilson was appointed as sporting director in October 2019 and his two years at the helm have been spent working in the background, adding new staff to the recruitment team and modernising elements of the club.
He played a crucial role in identifying Ralph Hasenhuttl as Mark Hughes’ replacement at Southampton in December 2018, but replacing Gerrard mid-season was the first public test of his leadership and the structures he has put in place.
He revealed that he had phoned every player in the squad as a courtesy during a difficult week, with the bulk of them absent on international duty. That was the human element of managing the transition, but the real scrutiny would come in what calibre of manager they could bring in and how quickly they could achieve it.
Wilson’s relationship with Van Bronckhorst’s representatives is believed to have helped foster the deal due to their previous dealings at Southampton. Les Reed was the sporting director who helped broker the deals for Koeman and striker Graziano Pelle to come to the Premier League from Feyenoord, but Wilson built a relationship in his role then as director of scouting and recruitment.
Despite the League Cup semi-final against Hibernian looming large on Sunday, 10 days after Gerrard’s exit, Rangers were certain they did not want to make the replacement process time-bound. This was seen as an appointment for the long term that they had to get right. They could not afford to be myopic.
Rangers operated the process with what is described as a “one plus three committee”, with Wilson leading the search as the chief decision-maker. Managing director Stewart Robertson, non-executive director Graeme Park and deputy chairman John Bennett made up the rest of the interviewing group.
They were in London last weekend to conduct talks with candidates and met Van Bronckhorst and his representatives on Saturday after he jetted in from the Netherlands. The meeting took place at a discreet location at a hotel in north London often frequented by Premier League clubs. It is understood to have lasted more than four hours.
This was the first time Van Bronckhorst had been in an interview scenario competing against multiple candidates, having transitioned from assistant to manager at his former club Feyenoord before being headhunted by Guangzhou.
He led Guangzhou to 11th in the Chinese Super League before quitting to be closer to his family last December. He had multiple offers to go back into management during his 11 months out of the game. Clubs in the Middle East were attracted due to his spell in China and there were opportunities in Spain and England, which partially came about thanks to an impressive CV bolstered by five months at City Football Group (CFG).
With CFG, he observed Pep Guardiola and learned about their methodology — but, at meetings such as the one Van Bronckhorst had with Rangers, there are not always guarantees of security or a chance to build.
With Rangers, rather than grand designs on the style of play and granular analysis of squads and budgets, it was a meeting of minds at first. Both sides are believed to have presented to each other with core values and ambitions at the heart of the talks.
Van Bronckhorst had a hugely successful three years at Rangers as a player (Photo: Clive Brunskill /Allsport)
It was about substance and what they stood for. They quickly realised that this was a natural fit, with Van Bronckhorst understood to have impressed with the level of detail included in his pitch. He even incorporated Rangers livery into his presentation.
After those positive talks, Rangers then travelled to the Netherlands on Tuesday to meet Van Bronckhorst again, where there were more detailed discussions about the playing squad and financials before the deal was pushed over the line on Thursday.
Forming a backroom staff was another task. Gerrard took assistant manager Gary McAllister, first-team coach Michael Beale, technical coach Tom Culshaw, head of performance Jordan Milsom and analyst Scott Mason with him to Villa in a compensation package understood to be worth more than £4.5 million.
Van Bronckhorst will bring a team with whom he worked closely at Feyenoord. Former Deportivo La Coruna and Bayern Munich striker Roy Makaay, Netherlands physio and former Feyenoord fitness coach Arno Phillips, and his main video analyst at his former clubs, Yori Bosschaart, will all join.
He is planning on adding to that staff, but the trusted Jean-Paul van Gastel, who was a team-mate for over a year when Van Bronckhorst broke through at Feyenoord in 1997, remains in China where he took over from Van Bronckhorst at Guangzhou and has six months left on his deal.
Van Bronckhorst’s assistant when he was appointed at Feyenoord in 2015 was Jan Wouters, the former Ajax midfielder and Netherlands international who was assistant to Advocaat and Alex McLeish between 2001 and 2006.
The 61-year-old told The Athletic in January that he had retired to spend more time with his grandchildren and, despite him returning to football at Fortuna Sittard as a support to the head coach, it is understood that he does not envisage a full-time return to football.
The time for Van Bronckhorst’s work permit to be processed means he will be limited to a view of Sunday’s semi-final from the stand. His long-term deal — believed to be until 2025 — shows there is a commitment to a plan that it is hoped will cement Rangers as the dominant power in Scotland and seal a return to the Champions League.
That process begins on Thursday when Rangers welcome Sparta Prague.
(Top photo: Getty Images/Design: Sam Richardson)
It was only last week that he had been talking with a dead-eyed focus about his players coming back fit for the semi-final against Hibernian after the international break, yet four days into it, and the same period after Villa had sacked Dean Smith, he was being photographed with a claret and blue shirt.
Gerrard said that he was only informed about the interest on the day before his unveiling. “When the phone call sunk in, I wanted it to happen very quickly. First and foremost, the opportunity was too big and, from there, it happened so quickly,” he said.
If the speed and timing of Gerrard’s exit are what has created a sense of resentment among a section of the Rangers support, then the appointment a week later of Giovanni van Bronckhorst as the club’s 17th permanent manager has swiftly completed the grieving process for the vast majority.
Not many would have envisaged replacing Gerrard with someone boasting an even more glittering playing CV, but the 106-cap former Netherlands international does that.
Two KNVB Cups with Feyenoord, five trophies with Rangers under Dick Advocaat, a Premier League and FA Cup with Arsenal, two La Liga titles and a Champions League with Barcelona, as well as captaining his country in the 2010 World Cup final to end his career.
Management has not been too unkind to him, either. He joined Ronald Koeman as an assistant at Feyenoord in 2011 before taking the reins in 2015. He won the KNVB Cup in his first season before ending an 18-year wait for a league title the season after. He followed that up with another KNVB Cup and two triumphs in the Super Cup, which is known as the Johan Cruyff Shield in the Netherlands.
He ticks the big-name category but his arrival means that Rangers have achieved an unusual holy trinity when it comes to managerial appointments.
They have chosen someone with a CV who, from a dispassionate viewpoint, has an impressive record of success at a big club, especially under the intense pressure of the De Kuip crowd at Feyenoord. He plays with a 4-3-3, which means there will be a strong degree of continuity from Gerrard’s tenure and should ease the transition mid-season. He knows the club and that means the fans are on side to the extent they have a new anthem lined up in his honour.
Pre-empting appointments is part and parcel of modern football, whether that is anticipating a potential manager’s availability or noting their desire to join your club.
The latter is how you could describe Van Bronckhorst’s passion for the role as The Athletic understands that Rangers were made aware of his interest in taking over, whenever the vacancy should arise, after Gerrard was linked with Newcastle United in October.
Wilson, front, has led the way on Van Bronckhorst’s appointment (Photo: Craig Foy/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Ross Wilson was appointed as sporting director in October 2019 and his two years at the helm have been spent working in the background, adding new staff to the recruitment team and modernising elements of the club.
He played a crucial role in identifying Ralph Hasenhuttl as Mark Hughes’ replacement at Southampton in December 2018, but replacing Gerrard mid-season was the first public test of his leadership and the structures he has put in place.
He revealed that he had phoned every player in the squad as a courtesy during a difficult week, with the bulk of them absent on international duty. That was the human element of managing the transition, but the real scrutiny would come in what calibre of manager they could bring in and how quickly they could achieve it.
Wilson’s relationship with Van Bronckhorst’s representatives is believed to have helped foster the deal due to their previous dealings at Southampton. Les Reed was the sporting director who helped broker the deals for Koeman and striker Graziano Pelle to come to the Premier League from Feyenoord, but Wilson built a relationship in his role then as director of scouting and recruitment.
Despite the League Cup semi-final against Hibernian looming large on Sunday, 10 days after Gerrard’s exit, Rangers were certain they did not want to make the replacement process time-bound. This was seen as an appointment for the long term that they had to get right. They could not afford to be myopic.
Rangers operated the process with what is described as a “one plus three committee”, with Wilson leading the search as the chief decision-maker. Managing director Stewart Robertson, non-executive director Graeme Park and deputy chairman John Bennett made up the rest of the interviewing group.
They were in London last weekend to conduct talks with candidates and met Van Bronckhorst and his representatives on Saturday after he jetted in from the Netherlands. The meeting took place at a discreet location at a hotel in north London often frequented by Premier League clubs. It is understood to have lasted more than four hours.
This was the first time Van Bronckhorst had been in an interview scenario competing against multiple candidates, having transitioned from assistant to manager at his former club Feyenoord before being headhunted by Guangzhou.
He led Guangzhou to 11th in the Chinese Super League before quitting to be closer to his family last December. He had multiple offers to go back into management during his 11 months out of the game. Clubs in the Middle East were attracted due to his spell in China and there were opportunities in Spain and England, which partially came about thanks to an impressive CV bolstered by five months at City Football Group (CFG).
With CFG, he observed Pep Guardiola and learned about their methodology — but, at meetings such as the one Van Bronckhorst had with Rangers, there are not always guarantees of security or a chance to build.
With Rangers, rather than grand designs on the style of play and granular analysis of squads and budgets, it was a meeting of minds at first. Both sides are believed to have presented to each other with core values and ambitions at the heart of the talks.
Van Bronckhorst had a hugely successful three years at Rangers as a player (Photo: Clive Brunskill /Allsport)
It was about substance and what they stood for. They quickly realised that this was a natural fit, with Van Bronckhorst understood to have impressed with the level of detail included in his pitch. He even incorporated Rangers livery into his presentation.
After those positive talks, Rangers then travelled to the Netherlands on Tuesday to meet Van Bronckhorst again, where there were more detailed discussions about the playing squad and financials before the deal was pushed over the line on Thursday.
Forming a backroom staff was another task. Gerrard took assistant manager Gary McAllister, first-team coach Michael Beale, technical coach Tom Culshaw, head of performance Jordan Milsom and analyst Scott Mason with him to Villa in a compensation package understood to be worth more than £4.5 million.
Van Bronckhorst will bring a team with whom he worked closely at Feyenoord. Former Deportivo La Coruna and Bayern Munich striker Roy Makaay, Netherlands physio and former Feyenoord fitness coach Arno Phillips, and his main video analyst at his former clubs, Yori Bosschaart, will all join.
He is planning on adding to that staff, but the trusted Jean-Paul van Gastel, who was a team-mate for over a year when Van Bronckhorst broke through at Feyenoord in 1997, remains in China where he took over from Van Bronckhorst at Guangzhou and has six months left on his deal.
Van Bronckhorst’s assistant when he was appointed at Feyenoord in 2015 was Jan Wouters, the former Ajax midfielder and Netherlands international who was assistant to Advocaat and Alex McLeish between 2001 and 2006.
The 61-year-old told The Athletic in January that he had retired to spend more time with his grandchildren and, despite him returning to football at Fortuna Sittard as a support to the head coach, it is understood that he does not envisage a full-time return to football.
The time for Van Bronckhorst’s work permit to be processed means he will be limited to a view of Sunday’s semi-final from the stand. His long-term deal — believed to be until 2025 — shows there is a commitment to a plan that it is hoped will cement Rangers as the dominant power in Scotland and seal a return to the Champions League.
That process begins on Thursday when Rangers welcome Sparta Prague.
(Top photo: Getty Images/Design: Sam Richardson)
prenzlauerbear
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Love that goal. Salihamidzic bodying Roberto Carlos for the assist and Makaay having the pace to keep up with play.
Kevin.Ahoy
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have they been sniffing glue on open goal againDerek Ferguson thinks Billy Dodds could be part of Gio's coaching team.
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Rod The Prod
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They’ve also called him John Paul van Gastel in the article…
Wade Wilson
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_BlueNose_
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WilldeBoer
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How long is van Bronckhorst's contract?
Coatbridge Chancellor
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3.5 years. Till 2025.
Bigbluebear
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3.5 years
thefortytwa
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Would love to have neil on board as a coach but for assistant van gastel has much better experience and pedigree. Hopefully the rumours of him coming in January are true.
artificialintoleranz
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Cheers bud, that's Christmas for the misses sorted.
Artful Dodger
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Mate I’m in the Copland Rear and await a “full forcer” in the mush.
knowyourhistory
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Kent is probably our most Roy Makaay player, hopefully Zack McKay gets a chance under Gio in the near future as he has an eye for a long range shot as per youth games.
Read them all over the years mate. His knowledge and more importantly his preparation is second to none.
As a driver for Parks?Derek Ferguson thinks Billy Dodds could be part of Gio's coaching team.
penilee57
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so roughly around the time he’ll be asked to take the reigns at Liverpool.
The Times (London) Saturday, 20th November 2021
Pep Guardiola: Rangers have picked a winner in Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
Van Bronckhorst spent five months at Manchester City with Guardiola
MARTIN RICKETT/PA
Pep Guardiola, the Manchester City manager, has congratulated Rangers on their decision to appoint Giovanni van Bronckhorst and described it as a “huge opportunity” for the Dutchman.
As Van Bronckhorst arrived in Glasgow yesterday to take up his new post at Ibrox, Guardiola was asked about the 46-year-old former Feyenoord manager who spent five months developing his coaching methods at City in 2019.
“I give compliments to him and Rangers for this appointment,” Guardiola said. “Of course Rangers is absolutely one of the greatest in Scotland. It is is a huge opportunity for him. He has incredible experience in Holland. He made Feyenoord really good. We’re in touch, he had a period here, he is a lovely person, lovely guy, so I wish him all the best.”
Van Bronckhorst is understood to have been earmarked for a job with one of City’s sister clubs, in New York or Melbourne, but he chose instead to join Guangzhou City, of the Chinese Super League, before giving that up to spend more time with his family.
Now he has succeeded Steven Gerrard as the manager of Rangers, who have a Premier Sports Cup semi-final against Hibs tomorrow. Van Bronckhorst will be at Hampden with his assistant, Roy Makaay, but it is too soon for either to be in the dugout. Instead, the team will be taken by Jermain Defoe, David McCallum, Brian Gilmour and Colin Stewart, who have overseen training this week.
Five coaches followed Gerrard to Aston Villa last week, leaving a vacuum that Van Bronckhorst is keen to fill as soon as possible. Two more Dutchmen are expected to join him in the days ahead: Arno Philips, a physio and conditioning coach, and Yori Bosschaart, a performance analyst.
StansgRFC
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Just normal A4 length mate
gersrus71
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So according to the Athletic Gio contacted Rangers back when there was speculation about Gerrard and Newcastle to say he would be interested should the job become available.
Top man, that’s what we want, guys that are actively wanting to be here.
It also lets us know that Gerrard was known to be wanting away for a while and the club must have been well aware of it.
Top man, that’s what we want, guys that are actively wanting to be here.
It also lets us know that Gerrard was known to be wanting away for a while and the club must have been well aware of it.
JohnD
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That's very plausible. I doubt that someone if the stature of GvB would be picking up the phone based on a few speculative articles in the Daily Record.
