Giovanni van Bronckhorst Former Holland national team star Prepare to be named to the Rangers. After Steven Gerrard, after the Scottish team. Has begun to open talks with a 46-year-old coach,

Steven Gerrard has left Rangers in a good place in departing for Aston Villa.

Top of the league, still in Europa League contention and with a strong squad of players, despite his sudden departure irking fans there’s no denying the next man in the door starts on a sound footing.

The favourite to check in at Ibrox and take over from Gerrard is former Light Blues left-back Giovanni Van Bronckhorst.

Then Rangers opened talks with Van. Bronx Horts in London on Saturday morning. The club are looking for a new manager to succeed Gerrard, who left the club to take up the Premier League job at Aston Villa

. Rangers are also planning talks with other candidates. But the names of former Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes and Gennaro Gattuso were not considered options

for Van Bronxhorts. He was a former Rangers player from 1998-2001 before moving to Arsenal, Barcelona and Feyenoord. I myself have a dream of returning to manage my old team.

Van Bronckhorts Started the job as a full-time team manager for the first time with Fayerd. won the Dutch Cup before leading the team to the league title the following year. He then moved to Guangzhou City in the Chinese league, finishing 11th before moving back with his family.