For a man whose father transformed the increase in an eyebrow into an art form, it was normal that the very mention of the name of Davide Ancelotti came with a shock value.
Many eyebrows would certainly have been raised among fans of the Rangers when he appeared on Monday that Encelotti, son of the Grand Don Carlo, is in the running to become the next club manager.
Currently in behind the scenes as an assistant coach in Real Madrid, Ancelotti Junior will leave when his father leave at the end of the season to take care of the Brazilian national team.
According to reports in Spain, the 35 -year -old man, who has no first line experience as a manager, is now a certainty nailed to take the job in Ibrox.
In terms of left field name and a blue bolt, it was there.
In private, club sources at the Rangers quickly played. The process of recruiting a new boss is still at its beginnings and, as such, no leading candidate has yet been identified.
Davide Ancelotti and his father Carlo took the defeat of Real Madrid against Barcelona on Sunday
Davide Ancelotti was a successful No2 for his father, but to what extent would it be effective?
Barry Ferguson quickly said that Ibrox work is “not a project” for someone
Any report according to which Ancelotti was offered the position, like certain points of sale in the Spanish media, are premature and wide of the brand.
Kevin Thelwell is the man who will be responsible for recruiting a new manager when he assumes his role as a new sports director of the Rangers.
Since Thelwell is not even in the building and will not officially start to work before he leaves Everton at the end of the season, the appointment will not yet occur a few weeks.
However, as much as sources in the Rangers and the American consortium seeking to take control of the club paid cold water on suggestions that Ancelotti was on the way, and they did not denote the suggestions that his name was under study.
Which raises an obvious question. With the club which needs a massive reconstruction on and off the field in summer, why devil the Rangers Toying Toying with the idea of appointing a total novice?
Barry Ferguson spoke yesterday about how Rangers are not a club for an unproven project manager, while admitting that he really does not know much about Ancelotti other than the obvious link with his father.
Ferguson was perfect. The last * thing that the rangers need right now is to take a shift on a random recruit. A guy whose CV has little to suggest that he should be the next manager of the Rangers, apart from the fact that he has a famous surname.
Let’s give Ancelotti the benefit of the doubt for a while and assume that he – rather than Carlo – was the brain behind all the success of Real Madrid.
The Rangers played an idea that Encelotti was offered the post, but did not deny that it was considered
Ancelotti distributes instructions to Arda Guller of Real Madrid during the Barcelona match
Carlo Ancelotti assumes Brazilian work after leaving Real Madrid, but his son’s intentions are not yet fully known
Would that guarantee that he would become a great manager when he finally leaves the shadow of his father? No, of course, this is not the case.
Rangers have a first -hand experience of this kind of thing. By common consent, Michael Beale was a good assistant coach under Steven Gerrard in Ibrox. Look where his appointment as Top Man has obtained the club.
Ally Mccoist was a popular n ° 2 capable of Walter Smith, but was never really up to the manager’s position in its own right. There are countless examples of this throughout football.
Being a good deputy director – and we can only presume that Encelotti is nothing less, given the way in which his father promoted it to Bayern Munich, Napoli, Everton and later Madrid – does not guarantee anything.
Angelo Alessio worked for almost 10 years as the right hand of Antonio Conte. When Alessio participated in Kilmarnock in the summer of 2019, he was a total disaster and was dismissed at Christmas.
In 1999, Brian Kidd left his role of assistant to Sir Alex Ferguson in Manchester United to take care of Blackburn.
A few months later, United celebrated the triple while Kidd was dismissed after Rovers was relegated.
Carlos Queiroz was another Fergie NO2 who spread alone. The Portuguese coach, who had previously managed his national team as well as Sporting Lisbon, took charge of Real Madrid in 2003.
The popular McCoist ally was a good Walter Smith assistant but never really convinced as a full -fledged manager
Michael Beale was another good assistant, in his case with Steven Gerrard, but was a disaster as manager
The Rangers are now looking for a permanent replacement for the limited boss Philippe Clement
He was dismissed after a season, a disastrous campaign that saw Madrid finish fourth at La Liga and eliminated the Champions League quarter -finals in a MONACO eccentric team.
Maybe Davide Ancelotti will prove to be a good manager in time. Maybe he turns out to be more a Mikel Arteta, who cut his teeth for three years under Pep Guardiola, than Angelo Alessio.
But it would be a reckless bet if the rangers were going to go near him right now. They need a proven operator, not a project manager.
It is not difficult to envisage a recruited boss who struck how the rangers had 65% possession and gave one of their best performances of the season, shortly after his team has just been beaten in Aberdeen.
The club has already been in this film. In recent years, fans have sat and have listened to the delusional nonsense of Beale and Philippe Clement.
Clement had at least one history of victory in Belgium. However, this was the level of tripe that he regularly trotted in his last months in charge, he has become officially known as the Bald Beale.
Rangers do not need another Beale, bald or other. As the takeover is finalized, they need a manager of authentic substances to advance the club.
A manager capable of rebuilding the team and installing a clear style of play. They need their own version of Ange Postcoglou.
Celtic took a boot of release on Postoclorou in 2021 by giving it its first job as a major club in Europe, the difference being that it already had a rich experience as a manager, had won league titles and had trained in the World Cup.
Davide Ancelotti has none of this. His old man could well be the godfather of modern managers, but so that the Rangers make him an offer that he cannot refuse? It would be madness.
Will you never walk alone? Try to tell Trent after the fans have shot him
What mortification that a large part of the crowd of Anfield chose Boo and Met Trent Alexander-Arnold on Sunday afternoon.
Presented as a substitute in the second half of the 2-2 draw of Liverpool with Arsenal, the right rear was humiliated by the club’s own supporters.
Listen, fans were never going to applaud his departure to Real Madrid at the end of the season.
But he did not deserve to be shot publicly. It was petulant and made fun of everything Liverpool is supposed to represent as a club.
Alexander-Arnold owes nothing to Liverpool. It was a local boy who came through the Academy, won two Premier League titles and a Champions League and turned into world class talent.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, linked to Real Madrid, did not deserve to be hued by Liverpool fans
It is not the same as when Steven Gerrard officially submitted a transfer request 20 years ago to report his intention to join Chelsea.
When this bomb dropped, the fans set fire to replicas of shirts bearing its name and burned them outside the stadium.
Gerrard’s thought demanding to go to join one of the greatest rivals in Liverpool was simply too much to take.
Alexander-Arnold did nothing about all of this. He did not submit a transfer request. He has not shot down the models or spit the mannequin.
No, he received a unique opportunity to join the largest club in world football – and chose to accept it.
He could have chosen to stay in Liverpool for the rest of his career. It would have been a comfort zone.
He withdrew that and wants to test himself. When Madrid comes to call, no player in his good direction refuses them. No matter the riches or romance in England.
Not Cristiano Ronaldo. Not Gareth Bale. Not Luka Modric. Not Steve McManaman. Not Michael Owen.
Even all the richness of the state of Qatar could not persuade Kylian Mbappe to stay in Paris rather than head to the Bernabeu.
For Alexander-Arnold to be vilified by Liverpool fans, that’s wrong. Will you never walk alone? Well, as long as you don’t run away from Real Madrid.
