Morelos has the trust of McAllister

GARY McALLISTER insists there’s no chance of Rangers losing patience with hothead striker Alfredo Morelos. The Colombian international picked up his third red card of the season in Wednesday’s 1-0 defeat to Aberdeen at Ibrox. The team’s top scorer will now sit out tomorrow’s tricky trip to Dundee and a home clash with Hamilton Accies. Ex-Rangers midfielder Charlie Adam fears his old club will have to offload the 22-year-old unless he learns to control his temper. But while acknowledging Morelos has a short fuse, Ibrox No2 McAllister says he and Steven Gerrard plan to work with the striker to help him conquer his demons. ‘Alfredo is a young player who we value and we want to try to help him through the other side of this,’ said the former Scotland captain. ‘It is a little issue. He is a goal scorer and they are hard to find. ‘We have got a young player who is very competitive, he is a

goal threat, our main goal threat. ‘It is that acceptance that, when he does get a yellow card, he has got to change — his whole dynamic has got to change — because he runs the risk of a second yellow. ‘That little switch has to click and we will continue to feed help to him because we like him, we care for him and we think he is a massive talent.’ Wednesday’s red card came just hours after Gerrard had held a dressing-room summit to address a spate of damaging dismissals and suspensions. Rangers have received eight red cards this season, three of them for Morelos, who has also been booked 12 times and was already missing tomorrow’s trip to Dundee through suspension. ‘Alfredo has got the respect of the dressing room but he has got to stay on the pitch,’ said McAllister. ‘He is young enough and we are experienced enough, there are enough experienced people on the management team, to help him to get it right. ‘The facts are that he is paying the biggest price because he loves scoring goals and when you get red cards you miss games. ‘That is the biggest penalty any striker can receive because he is not on the pitch and able to do what he does best.’ Morelos earned a soft first-half booking against Aberdeen, but could have landed a straight red for lashing out at Dons captain Graeme Shinnie in the second. An old head of the British game, McAllister has lined up alongside some of British football’s most notorious hard men and seen it all before. ‘Obviously, I played alongside Vinnie Jones for a short period of time. ‘There are players that others will try to provoke. That’s part of the game, it’s a compliment.’