Sports Roundup

Florin Orban, 04.05.2020, 12:30

British magazine FourFourTwo has drawn
up a ranking of the 100 greatest football managers of all time. The
list also includes three Romanians: Ștefan Kovács, Emeric Jenei and
Mircea Lucescu. Kovács, who won two European Champions Cups with
Ajax Amsterdam, comes on the 62nd position in the
aforementioned ranking. Jenei, winner of the European Champions Cup
with Steaua Bucureşti in 1986, comes 63rd. Mircea
Lucescu, winner of the UEFA Cup with Şahtar Donetsk and the European
Supercup with Galatasaray Istanbul, comes 87th. Scottish
Alex Ferguson is considered the best manager ever and is followed by
two Dutch, Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff. The ranking was based on
several criteria such as the trophies won, the tactical ideas used
and their ability to motivate players, Agerpres news agency reports.

Glasgow
Rangers hopes to sign
loan star Ianis Hagi on a permanent deal, The
Sunday Post writes. The club’s
sporting director, Ross Wilson,
admits the
financial impact of the coronavirus crisis could yet scupper their
hopes of capturing the Romanian midfielder.Wilson
believes Hagi would love to stay at Ibrox because Steven Gerrard has
made such a huge impact during his time on loan from Genk.Hagi is
on loan until the end of the season 19/20 whenever that comes and in
order to keep him, Rangers will have to pay 5 million euros to
the Belgians.

The
UEFA has sent a letter of recommendations to the Romanian Football
Federation for the end of the season. The European forum writes that
if there is no time for having completed the series of the Romanian
Cup’s games, the European place reserved to the winner will be
carried over to the championships, Romanian paper Gazeta Sporturilor
reports.The
move would benefit Astra Giurgiu, the fourth side in the frozen
rankings of Romania’s first football league, which has a higher
goal average than the next side, FC Botoșani.

(translated
by bill)