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Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Giovanni van Bronckhorst is set to join Arne Slot's coaching staff at Liverpool.

The former Rangers boss is poised to return to the dugout for the first time since leaving Besiktas last year, with the English Premier League champions to add him to Slot's staff as an assistant to his compatriot and fellow Feyenoord coaching alumni.

The Reds started the search after Johnny Heitinga left this summer to take the manager's job and former club Ajax.

And Slot is set to go Dutch again by bringing van Bronckhorst into the fold.

Former Everton man Heitinga proved a popular figure in the Anfield dressing room, working under slot for just over a year.

But the chance to take over at his hometown team in Amsterdam was too big to turn down and he was appointed after previous boss Francesco Farioli stepped down following a final day collapse that saw Ajax miss out on the Eredivise title by a point to PSV.

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Now van Bronckhorst, who was in the Ibrox hotseat for a year before being sacked in November 2022 for slipping too far behind Celtic, is set for a return to football with the Merseyside club.

Arne Slot(Image: AP)

The Dutchman was replaced at Rangers by Steven Gerrard's former assistant and ex-Liverpool academy coach Michael Beale, with many feeling in hindsight that van Bronckhorst was harshly treated by the Gers hierarchy.

Van Bronckhorst began his career at Feyenoord before joining the Light Blues in 1998.

After three years in Govan, he joined Arsenal before making the move to Barcelona, the finishing his playing career back at Feyenoord.

He became the boss at De Kuip in 2015 and led the Rotterdam club to their first Eredivise title for 18 years in 2016.

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