Timing would stink but if big bucks bid flies in Gers must bite bullet and let Alfredo go

develop, they sell, rinse and repeat. Of course you want to build and keep your top talent, see how far you can take them, but when the money gets crazy and you’re operating with an eight-figure annual deficit?

Because if that’s not their model then what else is going to get them to break even or make a profit once the attitude that losing money every year isn’t a problem is on the flight back to South Africa for good?

European money should be the gravy, not your breadread and butter. You can’t bank onn it.

Morelos shouldd be the flag bearer for or modern Rangers. They took a chance on a kid from Colombia, in the outpost of Finland. Didn’t speak the language but hell, he could score goals.

Look at him now. Bargain of the century.

His two goals the other night were outstanding, g, like most of his others. thers.

The concentrationtion and physicality requiredred for both showed a striker at the absolute peak of his powers.

He’s brilliant – powerful, quick, hungry and – thanks to gaffer Steven Gerrard – far more disciplined.

The trouble is, instead of saying ‘this is what we do and this is how our club is going to work’, they’re still in the mindset of thinking all they have to do is stop Celtic. Not fix Rangers.

It has been their problem since day one of the post-liquidation era. Using another club as their yardstick instead of creating their own. So, sure, if a big bid comes in January, when you’re in a fight for a title and trying to deny them nine in a row, the timing would stink. But you’ve got class cover in

Jermain Defoe and you’ve then got a pot of millions to find a replacement, who presumably will be on a list Ross Wilson has in his drawer. Ideally you’d do it in the summer but needs must. This is what it comes down to. That’s what Rangers’ business has to be. Which brings us to Dave King’s standing ovation at his announcemeannouncement he’s off. Does he leleave them in a better state than he got thethem?

Abso Absolutely. Better man management, infr infrastructure, aca academy. Team ch challenging on al all fronts. All go good.

But all the ta talk of statues an and his name on bu buildings? Spare us. Then refer bac back to the underlying issues that all still neneed fixed.

Still in a legal fight with Mike Ashley and without a retretail deal worth the paper it’s wrwritten on, perma- perma-losses on the babalance sheet, no major trophy, no title since 2011. He’s had fans queuing round the block with his ‘they’re all enemies of Rangers’ rhetoric and they’ve lapped it up without much critical appraisal of their own direction of travel.

For a while the fact he simply wasn’t Craig Whyte and wasn’t Charles Green was good enough.

But a true legacy doesn’t just mean leaving the place looking tidier than you found it.

The people I feel sorry for? The silent majority of Old Firm fans. The 95 per cent who love going to the game, love their club, pay their money and don’t seem to have a death wish ruin the experience to for everyone else. This week you’ve got the Green Brigade again playing the victim card, despite fact they’ve cost the their club the thick end of half a million quid in fines. As for the Gers fans who shoehorned The Pope into a F*** Neil Diamond song, possesses you to what the do it when you know consequences are or a closed stand even a closed stadium? The rank and file who’ll miss out deserve better than these rockets.