Gattuso: I`ll return to Rangers

World Cup winner Rino Gattuso has promised Rangers chairman David Murray he will return to Ibrox one day.

Gattuso was only 19 when then Light Blues manager Walter Smith brought him to Govan from Perugia and the midfielder quickly became a cult hero with the fans because of his never-say-die spirit. In 1998 he was released by Smith's successor Dick Advocaat but the AC Milan star, who is married to a Scot, insists he has unfinished business in Glasgow.

He said: "I don't know when it will happen but it will happen. I just have to go back and it's a promise I have made to myself and David Murray."

He added: "I spoke to David in August in Edinburgh and he told me the door was always open for me. There won't be any problems with money.

"I know they are going through a bad time financially, and I won't go there to take a pension either.

"I won't go at 35 or 36, I'll go when I've still got something to offer them, at European level as well as Scottish.

"When I left Glasgow, it wasn't through the main door, I was forced to flee almost like some sort of thief, at four in the morning. That's stuck in my throat since.

"I'm a player who wants people to see how much I put into things, not someone who just runs away in the night.

"I've got a debt towards Rangers fans because of the way I left. They helped me get where I am. I just have to go back."