Rangers fans have been left fuming this morning as they’ve come across an article from The Daily Record that claims their star man, Alfredo Morelos, is to be the subject of an £8 million bid from Nice as Patrick Vieira looks for a Mario Balotelli replacement.
EXCLUSIVE: Alfredo Morelos subject of Nice interest as French outfit line up £8m bid for Rangers starhttps://t.co/cbN2YNslUE pic.twitter.com/V9bl1AMhxv
— Daily Record Sport (@Record_Sport) January 22, 2019
The Colombian goal-getter has been on a real hot streak this season. In his 34 appearances in all competitions, this season the 22-year-old has scored 20 goals and registered te assists, a massive improvement on the 18 goals and eight assists he managed in nine games more last season. Owing to that record, it’s unlikely that a bid of just £8 million would be enough to prise the Colombian from Ibrox.
Steven Gerrard has been open about his goalscorer, claiming before the transfer window that bids for Morelos were going to be inevitable. However, he’s standing firm on his promise that he won’t be letting him go, and so far that seems to have been easy enough. There’s no way that the Ibrox faithful would be happy with their main man leaving unless they get a figure of at least treble the £8 million bid they’ve received, and that doesn’t look likely either.
You can read the Lilywhites’ verdict on the Morelos bid here:
Aye right! Try £80 million
— Stewart McDougall (@wsmcdougall) January 22, 2019
£8m Good luck with that Mr Viera
— Darren Urquhart (@Dj_Dazavich) 22 January 2019
https://twitter.com/razzamc72/status/1087650233520136193
More Daily Record lies.
— CC (@4done6togo) January 22, 2019
£8 million? pic.twitter.com/pXoLnOodoy
— David Fyfe (@davidfyfe1987) January 22, 2019
left out a zero after the 8! Jog on Nice
— Basherbo (@Blue0rder) 22 January 2019
https://twitter.com/MarkMcKay1990/status/1087625832502386694
8m in today’s market for someone who will score 30+ goals this season? No chance….They need to at least double it
— Jamie Gourlay (@JamieGourlay87) 22 January 2019
The Gers hate the idea of losing Morelos but they know that whilst the bids are as derisory as £8 million then Morelos is going nowhere.
