Ally McCoist fears the knock on effect of Aribo’s cut price Ibrox exit

Ally McCoist has voiced his fears over Joe Aribo’s cut price transfer to Southampton. 

Over the last year moonbeams have been launched with Crystal Palace, Aston Villa, Fulham and Nottingham Forest expected to get involved in a bidding frenzy expected to push the price of the midfielder to over £20m, perhaps close to the £25m that Celtic collected three years ago for Kieran Tierney. 

Reality is that only one club is interested, a £6m fee has been agreed with talk of £4m in add-ons to amuse the most gullible of the gullibles. 

That fee won’t go far in refreshing Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s squad with laboured attempts to secure Antonio Colak from PAOK. 

With a Champions League qualifier less than four weeks away McCoist voiced his concerns on TalkSport as The Sun reported: 

Southampton when it comes to bring through players form their academy don’t make too many mistakes. It is strange, I don’t know why there is a £10m clause and it’s only £6m  although the add-ons could potentially take it over £10m. 

Anyway, bottom line is I would have absolutely no problems, with all the Rangers fans, saying thank-you to Joe Aribo for his time at Rangers and wishing him all the best. 

He gave us that moment in the Europa League final and he has had some great performances. But I am a little bit concerned. I think Morelos’ contract is up after another year and I think Ryan Kent’s contract is up in the year. 

I would be a lot happier with my Rangers supporting scarf on if we tied the two of them down for another couple of years. The one player towards the end of the season who was absolutely outstanding was Calvin Bassey. 

He can play left back or left centre back in a 4 or a 3. He had an incredible man of the match performance in the Europa League final by a considerable distance, then another man of the match performance in the domestic cup final. 

Morelos hasn’t played since March 20 and isn’t expected to be involved in Saturday’s friendly against Sunderland in the Algarve.