Euro Leagues: van Bronckhorst’s Rangers return and Mancini’s miserable qualifiers
Steve Crossman is joined by Guillem Balague, Kristof Terreur and James Horncastle as Rangers have appointed their former player Giovanni van Bronckhorst to replace Steven Gerrard as manager. Guillem gives us an insight into what van Bronckhorst’s managerial philosophy is and Kristof explains how he led Feyenoord to an historic league title in the Netherlands. The panel discuss where it all went wrong for Italy as they failed to automatically qualify for the World Cup in 2022. The Braga manager Carlos Carvalhal joins the pod to talk about whether Portugal still need to build their team around Cristiano Ronaldo as they have to go through the play-offs to reach Qatar next year. Topics: 3’00” – Discussion on van Bronckhorst being appointed as Rangers’ manager 11’40” – Analysis of why Italy failed to automatically qualify for the World Cup and have struggled since winning the Euros 20’00” – Carlos Carvalhal on Portugal missing out on automatic qualification for the 2022 World Cup 28’45” – Debate on whether it’s beneficial for smaller nations such as San Marino to play in World Cup qualifiers against top ranked nations such as England.