How Rangers may be yet set for a massive windfall…

Back in the 90s and 00s Rangers sold quite a few players for massive money. Carlos Cuellar, Giovanni Van Bronckhorst, Alan Hutton and Jean Alain Boumsong are only four examples of such big sales at £8M or more.

When James Tavernier got linked with a move out by a football aggregation site (something the man himself laughed off as fake news) we nevertheless posited what kind of fee we would expect if someone did bid for our in-form RB – we proposed around £5M minimum and the vast majority agreed based on the fact he is English and the crazy transfer fees which circulate the modern game.

However, yesterday’s big story was Chinese super league side Beijing Renhe reportedly bidding an incredible £8M for star hitman Alfredo Morelos, with numbers banding around a £27k pw wage for the Colombian.

The more stunning part to this story was Rangers’ blanket rejection of the bid, and those which reportedly preceded it.

Back in the day, Rangers simply did not reject that kind of offer for players. Financially we could afford to, but way back when, these offers were pretty much always accepted; the hoo hah over the rejection of this one is conspicuous, but we will try not to read too much into that.

Nevertheless, if this alleged bid really was nearly £10M as reported, for Rangers to say no to it suggests a couple of things:

One, that financially we really are more stable than many of us fear. After all, we did secure Hamilton’s Greg Docherty for the reported asking price of around £650,000. And two, the more cynical one, where China’s transfer window does not shut till later this month giving the rich side time to pump their bid up even higher so Rangers can sell the 21-year old for a king’s ransom.

Both could be the answer. Neither could be the answer. It is admittedly conjecture.

Nevertheless, Morelos has definitely done the business on the pitch this season – along with Declan John, the best signing last summer, with an honourable mention to Daniel Candeias too.

But he is quoted as wanting to leave at the end of the season;

“I hope to keep doing very well and look for a bigger club in the Premier League at the end of the season.”

He has not denied these comments, and in truth they are, in part, fair enough, because the EPL is the Promised Land for so many players. Unfortunately for Alfie, the statement of ‘looking for a bigger club’ is not the kind of talk that goes down too well with fans who believe our club is the biggest around.

Nevertheless, if he keeps on scoring and doing the business at Ibrox, he will surely get his move this summer. And quite honestly, if Jason Cummings develops into the striker we expect him to, such a loss will be less heavy.