BREK-ING NEWS Rangers ‘make contact with Serie A giants’ over Croatia playmaker who cost £8.5MILLION as a teenagerA former international team-mate and contemporary of ex-Gers star Nikola Katic, Brekalo spent last season on-loan at Hajduk Split in his homeland from Fiorentina.
He’s still got two years left on his deal in Florence although it now appears likely he will be allowed to leave.
And according to Italian journalist Nicola Schira, the Ibrox men have asked for information on the star.
He wrote: “Rangers have asked for info on Josip Brekalo, who could leave Fiorentina in the next few Brekalo, who can play on either flank or in the No 10 role, could fill a position of fairly extreme need for the Ibrox men right now.
They’ve been heavily reliant on the likes of Tom Lawrence, with Todd Cantwell thought likely to leave the club soon.
So too could Ianis Hagi, with the Romanian freshly linked with a return to his homeland with Rapid Bucharest.
Hagi too, though, has been linked with the possibility of a move to Fiorentina this summer – one of his former Bucharest have recently sold star man Albion Rrahmani to Sparta Prague and could have money to spend.
The Ibrox men have dabbled in the Croatian market a lot in recent years, getting years of great service from Borna Barisic prior to the left back’s departure for Trabzonspor this summer
It remains to be seen whether they would be prepared to take on a loan deal at this point in time, of if an option to buy could be introduced.
A mainstay of the Croatian youth teams, Brekalo has been capped 35 times for his country, scoring four goals..
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It remains to be seen whether they would be prepared to take on a loan deal at this point in time, of if an option to buy could be introduced.
A mainstay of the Croatian youth teams, Brekalo has been capped 35 times for his country, scoring four goal
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