Liverpool are “shut” to appointing former Feyenoord and Rangers supervisor Giovanni van Bronckhorst as Arne Slot‘s new assistant coach.
With John Heitinga leaving the membership to take the helm at Ajax, Slot had a emptiness to fill forward of the 2025/26 season and has seemingly wasted little time to find a alternative.
In keeping with the Occasions‘ Paul Joyce and the Mail‘s Lewis Steele, former Netherlands worldwide Van Bronckhorst is “shut” to being appointed at Anfield.
The 50-year-old, who beforehand performed for Barcelona and Arsenal, has managed at Feyenoord, Guangzhou, Rangers and most lately Besiktas.
He gained the Eredivisie title in 2017 with Slot’s former membership and led Rangers to the Europa League remaining in 2022, however has been out of a job since October after being sacked by Besiktas.
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Van Bronckhorst will now work alongside Slot, Sipke Hulshoff and Aaron Briggs as a part of Liverpool’s backroom workers who’ve the enviable activity of constructing on the membership’s title success.
The previous defender has an abundance of expertise after greater than 500 senior appearances at membership and worldwide degree, along with a decade of teaching.
He’s one other who favours tactical flexibility and ought to suit seamlessly within the dugout with Slot, who will welcome a brand new voice and concepts from this summer time onwards.
Liverpool had been anticipated to make a transfer for Marino Pusic, who lately left Shakhtar Donetsk having beforehand labored carefully with Slot at Feyenoord.
