Giovanni van Bronckhorst has been tipped to be a tremendous success working alongside Arne Slot if his appointment to Liverpool coaching staff is confirmed. Van Bronckhorst is poised to be named the Reds’ new assistant coach following the departure of John Heitinga to take over as manager of Ajax.
Van Bronckhorst, like Slot, is a former Feyenoord manager who has also managed Chinese club Guangzhou, Rangers, and most recently Besiktas last year.
But Premier League winner Colin Hendry, who played alongside Bronckhorst at Rangers, believes the Dutchman will not see working as an assistant coach at Liverpool as a step down.
“I think the opportunity to go and work alongside his fellow Dutchman Arne Slot at the Premier League champions was too big an opportunity for Gio to turn down,” according to Hendry.
“People may believe it’s a step backwards for him because he’s already a successful manager. He won things at Rangers. He won at Feyenoord and again when he managed Besiktas of Turkey.
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“Maybe he thought, you know what, I’m experienced enough but I might go and try and be a number two and see what else I can learn or perhaps he feels like he’s accomplished what he wanted to as a manager in his own right, because he did fantastically well.”
Hendry told Coin Poker: “If you look at Gio’s record, both as a player and manager, he won wherever he went. I believe that joining Arne Slot’s coaching staff would be impossible for anyone in football to turn down.
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