Rangers midfielder, who elected to step away from managerial positions at Napoli and Fiorentina in the past two months, was offered the Tottenham job earlier on Thursday with the fine detail of the Italian's contract being worked on this evening.
Hiring Gattuso represents an aggressive about-turn for both the 43-year-old and Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy. Fiorentina today announced the termination “by mutual agreement” of a 23-day-old deal that would have seen Gattuso formally appointed at the Serie A club's coach on July 1.
Tottenham, meanwhile, stepped away from an agreement reached with Paulo Fonseca last week that he succeed Jose Mourinho as the club's full-time manager.Fonseca had been recruited by Fabio Paratici, Tottenham's newly.
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