Alex McLeish has started banging the drum for mystery interest in Ibrox stars during the January transfer window.
Anyday now reports will surface about Porto, Fiorentina and Bristol City keeping tabs and monitoring the situation with Alfredo Morelos who has scored in three SPFL matches in 2020.
It has been the same old story for the five transfer windows since Steven Gerrard arrived at the club with less than £3m brought in from the sales of Josh Windass, Daniel Candeias. A further £220,000 is expected next summer from Aberdeen for Young McCrorie.
Every window involves hype that other clubs are keen to sign Ibrox stars but the incoming fees haven’t even covered the pay offs given to Bruno Alves, Eros Grezda, Kyle Lafferty, Carlos Pena and Fabio Cardoso.
A year ago Gerrard and former chairman Dave King claimed that they wouldn’t accept bids of £40m for Morelos, in the current climate a quarter of that would be welcome with the likelihood being that when he does leave it will be for an undisclosed fee.
With six weeks to go the Daily Record picks up on a guessing game interview McLeish has carried out with a fan website, the same comments could have been used at any of the last five transfer windows.
Speaking to Ibrox News, he said: “When the Premier League come for you they can come with huge money. And this window might be different from previous windows because of the unprecedented situation we’re in at the moment.
“And therefore, could the January window be one of the busiest ever because teams have been in hibernation and now they’ll be bursting to spend money? They’re still heavily funded in terms of sponsorship and so the English teams could be predators.
“But there’s an air of confidence at Ibrox with players saying they want to be a part of this and they’ll give their all and think of the future after this season. There will be more than a few that want to be a part of what’s going on and remain a part of it. Right now, the one thing that Rangers have is momentum. If that gets disrupted then, you know, that could be a step back.”
The Ibrox club has still to publish its audited accounts for the year to June 2020, no interim accounts were published for last year with the last published report being for the 12 months to June 2019.
Since being sacked by Scotland in April 2019 McLeish hasn’t had any job in management with his media appearances mainly limited to newspaper work.