Rangers: Tam McManus makes explosive claims on Glen Kamara, Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent
Glen Kamara looks like he has “downed tools” at Rangers and wants to leave the club along with Ryan Kent and Alfredo Morelos, says Tam McManus.
The latter two stars are inside the final 12 months of their contracts and their futures look to be away from Ibrox, which is no longer the disaster it once would have been as the pundit believes fans would welcome their exits.
But Finnish midfielder Kamara, who came on as a substitute in the damaging defeat at St. Johnstone on Sunday (6 November) could follow them as McManus thinks he’s had enough, but amid growing doubts over the finances at the club he doesn’t believe there are many options to raise cash in January.
He said on PLZ Soccer’s The Football Show on Monday (7 November, 10min 30sec): “I think the Rangers supporters would be quite happy to see the back of both of [Morelos and Kent]. They don’t want Rangers to offer them a new deal.
“They’d rather cut their losses and get some money for them in this January window because neither of them have been good enough this season.
“I don’t think Rangers have got many players in there that they could sell for proper money. Even Kamara was one – He looks as if he’s downed tools, he wants to leave as well, so there’s a real problem at Ibrox.”
Dysfunctional
In the latter months of last season the prospect of Rangers losing Morelos, Kent and Kamara was a genuine concern for the summer transfer window.
All three had played key roles in the Light Blues’ run to the Europa League final, and the increased attention that had drawn led to fears that the squad to be picked apart.
Joe Aribo and Calvin Bassey did leave for significant cash which is now conspicuous by its absence, but overall it felt like the team had been held together fairly well in the circumstances.
Fast forward a couple of months and the picture couldn’t be more different, with so many of the club’s recent stars underperforming, and it now seems as if it would have been better to have sold a number of them in the offseason.
Confidence is low, and it is inevitably affecting the players, with striker Antonio Colak the only man who has been a definite success this year, while arguably Malik Tillman and Fashion Sakala have also looked good on occasion.
Otherwise this is a club in disarray, and if the only thing preventing what feels like an inevitable managerial change is that the club can’t afford to make it right now then it is a real mess.
Low on form, little contract left, and Rangers needing cash is the absolute worst negotiating position for January, so if any of these senior players are to leave it doesn’t even look like it will bring in the sort of money that is apparently required.
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