Rangers’ season hanging by a thread after bitter blow

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Rangers’ season hanging by a thread after bitter blow
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Rangers’ season is as good as over with the confirmation Alfredo Morelos is out till next season following surgery on a troublesome thigh.

We know this isn’t the optimistic article we want to be bringing you, but after our conjecture suggesting for days that he could be out a while, the worst-case scenario came true and the Colombian will report for pre-season training at the earliest.

It’s a complete blow, and it ends pretty much everything this season.

We’ve seen how poor the side plays without his massive influence, and after Ally McCoist was unable to compensate for Steven Naismith’s season-ending injury in 2011, this is pretty much history repeating itself with el-bufalo.

Yes, Gio is a better manager than Ally (regardless of how much we love the latter) and has a better chance of finding a plan B, but the reality is we’ve lost our most important player, the difference maker, the one who can play for three men, and we’ll be blunt with you by admitting we can’t see any positives from this.

We needed him for the UEL, and he’s no longer able to influence defences now. We needed him for 56 but we really needed him for Sunday. And we saw how we faltered there.

Morelos has missed 6 league matches for Rangers, and we were only able to win 3 of them – 2 v Livi, one v Ross County at home. That record without Morelos will not win Rangers the league, because Celtic have a win rate of 78% this season. 50% sure as heck won’t cut it.

We cannot see a way around this, but it’s on Gio to pull a rabbit out of the hat and prove us idiots.

We trust him, but we can’t see what he can possibly do without his best player.

What an absolute nightmare.

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  1. Gerrard let this develop , Itten was a mistake. Dykes was the better option . We have some poor options , I’d like to see GVB be brave especially in the final Scottish games,.

    • Dykes may have been the better option but still nowhere near good enough. 20 goals in 2 seasons at QPR, a fair number of them penalties, is a poor return for a centre forward. Even his last season at Livingston only brought 9 goals. Why would that record bring Rangers to the table. If we are looking to sign strikers who score 9 goals in a season then we really are fecked.

    • Should never have been in the position of having only one decent striker should have got one in January or promote Tony Weston or play the young Colombian who’s supposed to be half decent

  2. Should be claiming wages lost from Colombia, shouldn’t have went in the first place as he had an injury against Dundee strapped up then doing nothing but loans in Jan while that mob spend £25m and sneek in for the cl

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