Neil McCann’s contract denials

Neil McCann doesn’t want to break the bad news to the Gullible & Deluded.

He knows, as does everyone else inside football that Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent are desperate to get out of Ibrox.

The Colombian is completing his sixth season, the English winger his fifth with barely a trophy win to their name. Morelos has never shared the adulation of winning anything in front of fans.

For more than six months Giovanni van Bronckhorst evaded and deflected from the contract issue, gobby Michael Beale has been full of managerial talk, this week he almost spilled the beans that both players will be gone in the summer.

Speaking to BBC Scotland, McCann said:

It’s always a concern for a manager when you have two players, big names on your team sheet, winding their contracts down. Those players should’ve been massive for Rangers [on Sunday].

You can only do so much as a club to offer them to stay. At some point, you have to pull the pin. The contract talks seem have stalled with Kent and Morelos after it looked like there had been a bit of headway made.

Beale needs to ask questions soon. Do you want to be at the club? If they don’t, draw a line and start looking to spend money on guys who can make an impact next season.

When a player is three months away from seeing out their four or five year contract it is perfectly obvious that they are looking to move away, as a bonus as a free agent.

They might say that they are keeping their options open but that is simply code for hoping to sneak out on the quiet without getting abuse from fans.

Had the club offered Morelos and Kent the same deals that John Lundstram and Ryan Kent are on they would probably be signed up.

Summer exits seems inevitable but as Connor Goldson discovered last summer there isn’t much of a market for serial losers.