Football News: Should Glasgow Rangers Keep Alfredo Morelos?

What's everyone thoughts on keeping Morelos? He's had a very up and down 5 year career with Glasgow Rangers and I think it may be his time to move on for the benefit of our Club and team moving forward.

When looking through his career with ourselves, for some reason or another he hasn't always been the striker to rely on when he's been needed and as many goals and records broken. He's won 2 medals 1 league medal and 1 cup medal.

In all the games he's been banned and missed for various reasons, perhaps if he was the kind of player to keep his head down, we may have had much more success whilst he's been here?

He signed June 2017 for roughly 1 million pounds. He went on to score 18 goals tied with Josh Windass, 14 of them would be in the league 17/18. In September 2018 he signed a new contract until 2022. During February 2019, he scores twice against Aberdeen, but also receives his 4th red card of the season. 1 would later be rescinded and it is his 3rd against Aberdeen. He would receive a 3 match ban.

In March 2019, he signs another new contract until 2023 2nd of the season. Later in the season, he receives his 5th red card against Celtic and is involved with an incident with Scott Brown. Gerrard then says, he can no longer defend the player and receives a 4 match ban. Morelos finishes the campaign with 30 goals in 48 appearances, 18 of them in the League.

With season 19/20, Morelos netted the winner in a League match away to Motherwell, but was then sent off for a second booking after making gestures to the home supporters during his celebrations. He also became the first Rangers player to score in four consecutive matches in European competition that seaso.

However, he found himself the centre of controversy again at the end of Rangers' 2-1 league win over Celtic at Parkhead on 29 December. He was sent off for diving, and made a gesture moving his hand across his throat as he left the field.

By the time of the mid-season break at the end of December, Morelos had scored 28 goals in 35 games. He also set a UEFA individual record for most goals in a European campaign before Christmas scoring 14. He finished the campaign on 29 goals in 47 matches.

In season 20/21, Morelos had an off the ball incident where he appeared to stamp on Hibernian player, Ryan Porteous, and was subsequently given a three match ban. Rangers completed the full Scottish Premier League season unbeaten in addition to winning the title for the first time in 10 years and 55th time overall. Morelos won his first trophy after four seasons with the club and finished season 17 goals in 44 games.

With the 21/22 season, On 24 October 2021, Morelos score the winner again against St Mirren as Rangers came behind to score twice in as many minutes and win 2-1. In doing so Morelos scored his 100th goal for Rangers in his 199th match for the club.

On 10 August 2021, he scored his first goal of the season and his first ever UEFA Champions League goal in the second leg of Rangers Third qualifying round match against Malmo He became the first Rangers player to score a Champions League goal for ten years.

Under Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Morelos looked like a rejuvenated player and hit a rich vein of form in the month of December scoring a further 4 goals in 5 league matches against Dundee. Morelos scored his 107th goal for the club and became the all-time overseas top goalscorer, a record which was previously held by South African left winger, Johnny Hubbard since 1959.

Morelos scored his first goals of 2022 by netting a brace against Hearts on 6 February at Ibrox during a 5-0 win, a game in which he also recorded an assist. The two goals took Morelos' League goals tally up to 10 for the season and he became the first player to score double figures in the Scottish Premiership for Rangers for 5 consecutive seasons since Kris Boyd between 2005/06.

He sustained an injury whilst on International duty that required him to undergo surgery on his thigh. On 5 April Rangers put out an official statement on their website to confirm the surgery was a success, but Morelos would be out for the rest of the season. Despite his injury, Morelos would finish the season as Rangers joint-top goalscorer with 18 goals (tied with James Tavernier) in 42 appearances and received the award for Rangers Player Of The Year. He was also included in the 2021-22 PFA Scotland Team of the Year.

After almost five months out of action, Morelos made his return on 6 August 2022 in a League game against newly promoted side Kilmarnock at Ibrox coming as a 64th minute substitute for Antonio Colak. 14 minutes later Morelos scored his first goal of the season as Rangers won the match 2-0.

On 20 August 2022 during a 2-2 draw with Hibs, Morelos received his eighth red card for Rangers after he swung his arm in the face of Marijan Cabraja when both players went to head the ball. The commentators and pundits felt the red card was harsh and it meant that Rangers had to finish the game with nine men as John Lundstram had just been sent off 9 minutes prior to the incident.

Following this, manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst took the decision to drop Morelos from the squad to face PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League Play-off round (which Rangers went on to win 3-2 on aggregate and qualify for the Champions League group stage for the first time in 12 years), citing concerns over his attitude and fitness levels, but stressed that Morelos still had a future at the club if he could prove his commitment.

Morelos again scored after coming on as substitute in a 4-1 victory over Aberdeen at Ibrox, the goal took his tally up to 115 for Rangers and meant that he became the 30th all-time top goalscorer for the club, level with Rangers legend, Mark Hateley.

Written by Thestigno1 November 30 2022 12:33:10