At the start of last week they were bracing themselves for offers, based on a Tweet from a French journalist.
At maybe £6-8m Alfredo Morelos is worth a punt but even with their vast reserves of transfer funds Lille won’t go near the suggested £17m price tag.
The Ibrox club could be left bracing themselves for a while, interest from Lille seems to have dried up with an out of condition striker with a discipline problem firing blanks again now that he is out of Lockdown.
Now the quality of club keeping tabs/ preparing a bid/ set to make an offer has nose-dived significantly with interest appearing to be as genuine as the offers from China in January 2018.
Bringing their readers upto date with the Record reports:
Foot Mercato claim the 24-year-old remains high on Christophe Galtier’s agenda but Gent striker Jonathan David remains the key signing target.
And the outlet understands three other European sides have been boosted after no deal was agreed between Lille and Rangers despite fervent speculation last week.
Sevilla and Brighton have been linked in the past and now Serie A upstarts Sassuolo have also been credited with an interest.
And the link with a move to Italy comes only 24 hours after Bologna were tipped to test Rangers’ resolve for a player who netted 29 goals last season.
And has one goal in 2020, in the 85th minute of a 4-1 Scottish Cup win away to Hamilton, a few weeks later Alf was firing blanks as Accies won 1-0 at Ibrox.
With the wages of two new strikers in the building shifting Morelos is an even bigger priority than previously.
Steven Gerrard must decide whether to risk playing his only available striker against Bayer Leverkusen tomorrow or hold him back in the hope that Brighton or Sassuolo are about to splash out on a non-scoring striker with a horrendous disciplinary record.
