Gio van Bronckhorst Rangers press conference in full as Jermain Defoe is taken off coaching staff

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Giovanni van Bronckhorst has dumped Jermain Defoe from his Ibrox backroom team - but insists the veteran poacher can still play a major role for Rangers on the pitch.

Departed boss Steven Gerrard handed his old England team-mate a coaching job to go with his first-team duties when Defoe signed a new one-year deal in the summer.

Yet before Sunday’s win at Livingston, the 39-year-old had only appeared on a team-sheet once this season. Eyebrows were also raised when Defoe was allowed to skip Gers’ vital October trip to St Mirren so he could appear as a pundit for Sky Sports’ coverage of a Premier League clash involving former sides Tottenham and West Ham.Gerrard had aimed to use Defoe’s expertise to bring the best out of the club’s frontmen