Steven Gerrard has invited clubs to make their move for Alfredo Morelos, as quoted by the Scottish Sun.
The Rangers manager effectively announced that the striker was there for the taking. That’s if a club comes in with a big enough offer, at a suitable time in the window.
Morelos scored 30 goals in all competitions last season. However, his ill-discipline also left Gerrard high and dry and important times.
“It won’t happen late,” said Gerrard of on a possible Morelos transfer, as
“So if someone wants to spend a lot of money on a centre forward and they want to take my centre forward, they’d have to come early. They’d have to because it won’t happen late.
“If he did end up going, he would be impossible to replace with only days or weeks remaining in the window. So we don’t want him to go. We don’t want to sell him. But you know and I know that every player has a price.
“And I’m not going to sit here and say to you that he’s not going out the door because, if a bid lands that the board like and they want to accept, it’s a completely different conversation. But that hasn’t happened. There hasn’t been one single bid.”
Verdict
Gerrard continues to claim that neither he nor the club wants to sell Morelos. Yet, rather than clamming up, he’s saying an awful lot on the matter.
These comments are showing Rangers’ hand and essentially inviting bids from elsewhere. It looks to me like he’s is a lot more ready to be without Morelos than he is admitting.
It would be a major gamble from the club to let him go. After all, his departure means you lose 30 goals and a handful of assists from last season. He would need to be replaced by a proven marksman, and as soon as other club’s know Rangers have the cash to splash, prices will be hiked and finding a suitable replacement more difficult.
