This is a time you want your leaders in the dressing room. The players have to stand up and be counted. "All the spotlight comes on you because you're second and that's when you have to be big - you have to stand up, be counted and play your way out of it. "I know how tough it is to be a manager, I know how tough it is to manage in this city and Giovanni van Bronckhorst would have known that coming into it. "I am never comfortable talking about a manager losing their job," Souness, who managed Rangers from 1986 to 1991, told BBC Scotland. Rangers' pointless campaign in the Champions League - when they lost all six games, including a 7-1 thrashing by Liverpool - has added to the spotlight on Van Bronckhorst.īut the former Liverpool and Scotland captain believes Rangers' chastening experience in Europe simply "exposed the weakness of the Scottish game" and that the Dutch manager should be given the opportunity to turn things around. Van Bronckhorst's first Ibrox year assessed."There are three Old Firm games - win those and it'd be a different picture." It's not a long way back, it's beating Celtic next time out. But Souness said: "Of course there's a way back.
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