FORMER Rangers player Frank de Boer has admitted he would love to manage in the United Kingdom amid speculation he could be a contender for the Ibrox vacancy.
The 46-year-old is currently out of work after a turbulent three-month spell as Inter coach ended with his sacking in November.
De Boer's agent Guido Albers last week suggested the Dutchman would be open to the idea of returning to his former club as manager, insisting that "money will not make it impossible for him to go there."
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After links to Premier League clubs including Hull City and Swansea, and an approach from Liverpool in 2012, De Boer underlined that he would be interested in a switch to British football should the right offer arrive.
"I would love to manage here," he told the Daily Mail.
"But the project has to be right. I told Liverpool I was honoured but I was only one year in at Ajax, it was too soon. I needed to achieve more, and I did."
De Boer departed the Amsterdam giants last summer after winning four league titles in his home country, but a switch to Serie A giants Inter ended after only 85 days.
"Leaving Ajax after 25 years as player, coach and manager was hard, but sometimes you are saying the same things, you need a new challenge, like Pep," he explained.
"But at Inter I had to deal with so many things away from football, you lose energy.
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"Every time you thought, "Finally, a good result, everything has calmed down", then comes Mauro Icardi's book or Marcelo Brozovic is in the discotheque and you have to punish him. We only had three months but honestly, it felt like a year."
Graeme Murty will remain in caretaker charge of the Gers for tomorrow night's Ladbrokes Premiership trip to rock-bottom Inverness, after falling to defeat against Dundee last Sunday.
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