Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v Rangers - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - April 8, 2023 Celtic's Alistair Johnston and Rangers' Alfredo Morelos Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith
Five years on from their exclusive story of a mystery bid from a mystery Chinese club the Daily Record is faced with telling their army of readers that Alfredo Morelos will be leaving Ibrox on a free transfer.
The chunky Colombian moved to Ibrox a year after Celtic signed Moussa Dembele with the Glasgow based publisher anxious to try and present some sort of rivalry and comparison.
Morelos will leave Ibrox with one winners medal to his name after six years of toiling to hit 20 SPFL goals in a season. After yesterday’s comments it is unlikely that the 26-year-old will add to this season’s tally of 11.
Galatasaray, Porto and Seville have been the clubs most regularly linked under the rules of Morelos Transfer Bingo with the average fee being £20m. The same fee that Celtic got for Dembele in 2018.
Bizarrely Aston Villa during Steven Gerrard’s time in charge was another lazy option but despite two transfer windows at Villa Park the former Ibrox boss didn’t go near his old striker.
The Record has generated plenty of clicks and pageviews on the back of their Morelos stories, no doubt there will be plenty more in the coming months as the credibility of the title crashes quicker than the value of the former Colombian international ace.
BTW, to laugh at any of them just Google:
Daily Record + Morelos + Club
i.e. ‘Daily Record + Morelos + West Brom’: pic.twitter.com/GRgO6e5BwI— ? Gastro Celtic ? (@Gastro_Celtic) May 8, 2023
£16m to Lille as well. pic.twitter.com/GA9qEGvo7N
— FD (@F_Dev1888) May 8, 2023
— ?? ????????????? ?? (@CelticOverall) May 8, 2023
Would that be the record telling lies again.
— Coinneach. ???????????????? (@Kennywa76014207) May 8, 2023
Keridene @BBCSportsound
— Cloggybhoy #3 (@CloggyMcClogg67) May 8, 2023
Slimming Club ??
— denis mccarthy (@denismccarthy57) May 8, 2023
You missed Seville
— moppy (@moppy71) May 8, 2023
They tried their best…their job was to generate interest and create a stupid valuation and they ended up with hee-haw?
— let the people sing (@letthepeoplesi4) May 8, 2023
We’ve said it for years-who’d want that rotten, sour faced Prk in their squad…he’s goin for what he’s worth-nada!
The middle of a doughnut.
Yeah ,but nobody and I mean nobody ,can say he wasn’t well fed when he left the clumpany ! Can they ?
Transfers totalling £269 million was put out there for Fatso and not one penny came into klub from all those millions of pounds branded about.BOOM!