A solid NO- Ibrox influencer stays staunch over Scott McKenna rumours

Even as he endures the pre-season from hell Stevie Clifford refuses to let his uber-staunch guard down.

Every Johnny Foreigner linked with his club is greeted with joy and welcomed but no matter how bad things are there is no place for one of them in the home dressing room at Hampden.

With Ben Davies, Leon Balogun and John Souttar providing comic-cut defending in three pre-season defeats the arrival of a free agent with SPFL experience on the back of playing at the European Championships would surely be a step in the right direction? Someone that played for Copenhagen in the Champions League this year.

But alas no, a heart-broken Scott McKenna will have to look elsewhere for his next career move with wee Stevie just not prepared to consider the unthinkable.

After four years at Nottingham Forrest the defender is available as a free agent but past links to Celtic are just too much for the Four Lads podcaster to contemplate. At 27 he is four years younger than Connor Goldson.

Rabbi Matondo, Tom Lawrence and Ben Davies were all linked to Celtic before moving to Ibrox. With that trio sinking £100,000 a week out of the Tribute Act it looks like wee Stevie will have plenty to moan about ahead of the annual change in manager ceremonies.

There is nothing to suggest that McKenna would be interested in linking up against with his former team-mate Scott Wright to hear the booing of the most entitled group of supporters in football, the same fans that watched their previous club sink into administration and liquidation.