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IT LOOKS LIKE ANCELOTTI VS MARTIN BUT COULD THERE BE A HORSE IN THE RACE THAT NO-ONE KNOWS IS RUNNING? 19:03, 29 May 2025Updated 19:33, 29 May 2025 It looks like Davide Ancelotti vs Russell

Martin at this stage – but don't be surprised if someone new emerges from the cold and snatches the Rangers job over the next few days. That was the warning from our man Scott McDermott

on _HOTLINE LIVE_ as he teased a 'new name' could come to the fore over the next few days. The hunt for the next boss at Ibrox has been one full of twists and turns. Interim boss

Barry Ferguson was among the early frontrunners, and since then it's veered wildly between Steven Gerrard, Russell Martin and current bookies' leader Davide Ancelotti. It's

all happening against the backdrop of the San Francisco 49ers-backed takeover which only complicates matters further, but the noises suggest the search for the next boss is going on

independent of that and could even conclude before the American investment is rubber-stamped. As for who it will be, our man McDermott, who has been inside the hunt from day one, reckons

Ancelotti is the favourite for good reason. But he also wouldn't be surprised if an entirely new name emerged to blow it apart over the next few days. He said on tonight's _Hotline

Live_: "It would not surprise me if, over the next few days, a new name emerged. Someone that's maybe not been mentioned." Keith Jackson then followed up: "A horse that

no-one knows has been running?" before McDermott continued: "Pretty much. My belief at the moment is that Ancelotti would be the favourite for a variety of reasons. "This has

been so topsy-turvy, so hard to get a handle on, that nothing would surprise me. And if another name emerged in the next couple of days, it certainly wouldn't surprise me." _TUNE

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