Desperate Daily Record are still on the Morelos transfer trail

The Daily Record just can’t let go on their Alfredo Morelos transfer tales.

More than five years after creating tales about a mysterious Chinese club placing a bid of Dembele Dollars clicks about the chunky Colombian must have raised a small fortune for the ailing Glasgow publisher.

All year round clubs were keeping tabs, poised to bid and monitoring events but whenever the transfer window opened interest was non-existent.

Sevilla, Porto and Galatasaray were the three most linked clubs, since June Morelos has been available as a free agent but no serious offers have been made.

With well documented issues over his physical conditioning any club looking to take a chance on the former Ibrox hero would have wanted to put him through an intensive pre-season programme but with two weeks to go until most European leagues are underway Morelos is stuck in Colombia producing videos to convince clubs that he has something to offer.

Apparently Grenada and Celta Vigo are trying to outbid each other to sign Morelos, now Watford, facing a 46 match programme in the Championship are ready to make an offer. The thoughts of Ryan Porteous to his team-mates about the ‘new arrival’ should be interesting.

A club in Colombia looks the most likely option for the Ibrox legend now that interest from Inter Milan has gone the same way as the bumper Saudi offer for Scott Wright.