FORMER Rangers boss Dick Advocaat has insisted one of his Ibrox successors should be the new manager of Feyenoord after endorsing Giovanni van Brockhorst.

Van Bronckhorst announced this week he is ready to return to management after a long sabbatical following his departure from Ibrox in November 2022.

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He’s been strongly linked in his homeland for a return to Feyenoord where he played and later managed and guided them to their first league title for 20 years in 2017.

The Rotterdam club are set to lose Arne Slot to Liverpool next season to succeed Jurgen Klopp.

And 76-year-old managerial legend Advocaat – who is now manager of the Caribbean island Curacao, after coming out of retirement for the fifth time – believes it’s a no-brainer that van Bronckhorst returns to De Kuip.

He said: “‘I would choose Giovanni van Bronckhorst to be the new manager of Feyenoord because he has the experience.

“He won five trophies in three years at the club and that’s what matters.

“Yes, the right style of football is important but winning trophies is the most important thing and he has done that.

“So yes, van Bronckhorst would be my first choice.

“But if they were going to take him, you would think they would have already made their move by now.”

Advocaat was manager of Rangers from 1998 to 2002, where he famously splashed out a record £12 million on striker Tore Andre Flo.

He won two titles with Rangers, two Scottish Cups and a League Cup and signed van Bronckhorst.

He was also manager of Feyenoord just five months after van Bronckhorst departed the club in 2019 following Jaap Stam’s short stint as boss.

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