Charlie Nicholas urges Rangers to sell Alfredo Morelos
Charlie Nicholas believes that Rangers should sell striker Alfredo Morelos after their Champions League qualification play0off against PSV.
The Colombia international has struggled this season and received a red card against Hibs in the match at the weekend, and will be left behind for the trip due to his attitude.
Nicholas, in a column for Scottish Daily Express, wrote that the 26-year-old looks uninterested in the team’s performance.
“He is sellable,” he said. “If Rangers could get a package of £10million with add ons then I would take it. Somebody will take him. A Real Betis or another team in Spain or a side from a decent European league will sign him.
“But Rangers need to get rid of him. He got sent off again at Hibs at the weekend. It was a soft ordering off but it was still a red card. Does his recent behaviour concern me? Yes, because it is still in his DNA.
“I think Giovanni van Bronckhorst will have looked at it and has said he isn’t prepared to go through what Steven Gerrard went through. He has to look at it and say Rangers need to take what they can get to get Alfredo out the door.”
Interesting
Those words are interesting, more so because they are coming from a former Celtic player. However, if those words are evaluated neutrally, it makes sense to what Nicholas is saying because Morelos looks like a player who doesn’t really want to be a part of the project at the Ibrox Stadium.
However, it will be a tricky call to make to let someone like the 26-year-old leave the club with so little time left in the current transfer window which would mean that there will not be enough time to go out there and find someone who can replace someone with the quality of the Colombia international.
Morelos has been a Rangers player since the summer of 2017 when he moved from HJK Helsinki in a deal worth £1.08million.
Since then, he has played 228 matches for his current club across all competitions where he has managed to score 114 times and provided 52 assists [Transfermarkt].
A big decision is on the horizon.
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