The annual “will he, won’t he” debate surrounding Alfredo Morelos’s future has seen updates on an almost daily basis, with Porto heavily linked with the Gers number 20.
Various fees and attempted bids have been banded about but, according to The Scotsman, the Portuguese giants remain some way off if they are to land the Rangers striker:
“According to sources in Portugal, a five-year contract is already on the table in principle for the 25-year-old if a deal can be agreed with Rangers.
“Porto initially believed they might land Morelos for a fee in the region of €12 million, but have been informed that is considerably short of the valuation placed on him by Rangers, who rejected an offer closer to €18 million when Lille were in hot pursuit last summer.”
A five-year deal playing in Portugal will no doubt be tempting for El Bufalo but, as The Scotsman reports, they will have to come up significantly higher than their current £10m valuation. This is, after all, a player with 137 goals and assists in 182 Rangers appearances – not bad for £1m.
As already covered by Vital Rangers, Morelos isn’t as important to the club as he used to be in that we have three other strikers in place that can all contribute now, that simply wasn’t the case even this time last summer until Cedric Itten and Kemar Roofe arrived but we will still be looking for around the same figure that Lille had rejected.
It’s now more about setting a benchmark for our players rather than Morelos as an individual, selling him on the cheap will only make it harder to get top price for other transfers in the future, thankfully, Ross Wilson is nobody’s mug.