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Wild moment Rangers hero Rino Gattuso forced to deny rumour about taking over at Ibrox
He's got another former Gers star as his No 2
FORMER Rangers hero Rino Gattuso found himself grilled during his usual pre-match press conference about rumours linking him with the possibility of succeeding Philippe Clement at Ibrox.
But the current Hajduk Split boss, brought to the Ibrox club as a player by Walter Smith during the 1990s, emphatically dismissed them as 'gossip'.
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The feisty Italian has guided Hajduk to the summit of the Croatian game, where their fanatical fans are praying for their first league title since 2005.
Gattuso, whose No 2 Luigi Riccio also played for Rangers, has found his name thrown into a long list of names who could theoretically replace under-fire Clement down the line.
But he rebuffed any notion that his attention was in anyway Split when he previewed the match against Istra 1961 in his weekly press conference.
The Italian has certainly got some big clubs on his CV, having previously managed AC Milan, Napoli, Valencia and Marseille.
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Gattuso told Telegram.hr: “There’s nothing about me going to Rangers, only Hajduk is on my mind.
"Everything else is just gossip.
"My only priority is Istra. Let's leave those coffee shop rumours.
"My only wish is to stay here and achieve our goals.”
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Hajduk are coming off their first domestic defeat of the season, away to Varazdin, and Gattuso has urged his club's fans to get behind them and roar them to what could be a historic season.
"The fans pay for the tickets, so they can whistle, but I wouldn't want it to be like that.
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"I think we have a historic season ahead of us, and now we are coming back after a loss.
"We have to be real, so support will be crucial for us.
"We saw what happened last season, that must not happen now.
"We have to go to the maximum in every game, so the fans will be able to accept that."
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