Stevie drops colossal January transfer hint – fans will love it

Rangers manager Steven Gerrard has left us here at Ibrox Noise and the wider support in a little bit of confusion after mixed signals regarding player indispensability.

He confirmed recently that all players are for sale, which is something he’s said before, and clarified that they’re not for sale for the ‘old prices’ but the ‘new ones’.

Which is fine.

However, he muddied the waters a bit today by confusing this again, when he admitted star striker Alfredo Morelos is more or less not for sale and he’ll not only fight tooth and nail to keep the Colombian, but he’s willing to fall out with the board with regards to it too.

He revealed some weeks ago that if a suitor team offers enough for any player, they’re available, but that doesn’t seem to apply to Morelos who, it seems, now has a market value for around at least £20M.

We know West Brom will be sniffing around at James Tavernier again before too long, and being club captain and signing yet another new deal his value will be in the £10M+ range, but with regards Morelos Gerrard has changed his tune and gone more hard line implying that he will resist even double that for his top goalscorer.

Quite honestly we don’t mind this at all. It’s about time Rangers hurt teams’ wallets rather than wimpily giving our best players away for circa £1.5M. And this tactic of Gerrard ensures teams wanting Morelos will not only have to open their wallets, but search deep inside to give Rangers the kind of money a Colombian international is surely worth.

His cameo yesterday lit up Ibrox, and showed his value – it wasn’t against a Hamilton or a Dundee, it was against the season’s surprise package that is the robust Livi – and the ex-HJK man destroyed them.

And if Stevie’s latest comments are to be believed, despite saying all players are for sale, that’s not strictly true in Alfredo’s case. Which can only hike his value even further.

We’d have to say well played on that one.