Rino Gattuso begged to be my Rangers boot boy after I won World Cup as Marseille inside man targets reunion

Former Rangers keeper Lionel Charbonnier has revealed new Marseille boss Rino Gattuso used to clean his boots at Ibrox and has backed him to be a huge success as manager at the club.

The firebrand Italian came out of a nine-month exile from football to take charge of the French giants, with his last job at Valencia. Gattuso was brought to Ibrox by the late Walter Smith in 1997, before he was shipped out to Salernitana a year later in a £4 million deal because Dick Advocaat didn't rate him.

From there, he went on to move to AC Milan and won two Champions Leagues, two Serie A titles and that 2006 World Cup with his country. French World Cup winner Charbonnier was a keeper at Ibrox when he had a three-month stint with Gatusso after Advocaat signed him from Auxerre. And Charbonnier, now a TV pundit, revealed the pair had a close bond at Ibrox after Gattuso - who has also managed Sion, Palermo, Crete, Pisa, AC Milan and Napoli - was assigned as his boot boy. He said: "It's like that in Scotland. When you sign a professional contract, you have a designated boy to look after your equipment.

"We had just won the World Cup and Gattuso said, 'I want to be Lionel's boy'. So he found himself having to polish my boots. When it's like that, you have to be the godfather and accompany the kid everywhere. We were together all the time, we lived together.

"So when he got this job I congratulated him on his appointment. He will not deviate from his identity and his values. He is very demanding with himself because he will also be with his players. He has a very strong tactical culture and a philosophy. If he has a strong squad, he will be able to impose himself with the strengths and weaknesses of his team.

"He's going to structure this