I understand that it has been the settled view in the Blue Room for some time now that their current manager is essentially learning on the job.
If there was any need for further evidence of that fact, then Mickey B provided it yesterday in the post-match presser.
I can only imagine Alfredo’s level of motivation at training in the remaining weeks of his contract at Sevco.
Seriously, this was amateur-hour stuff from the Sevco manager.
It is a rather hilarious end to the Morelos saga.
Almost as soon as he arrived from Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi in 2017, the brethren in the Blue Room dreamed of selling him on for a substantial fee.
The usual succulent suspects in the Stenography Corps did their the level best to create some excitement around the Colombian striker.
Dear reader, the ruse was as transparent as it was embarrassing.
Essentially it was to plant invented stories in the Scottish media that might attract a real offer from a real club with real money.
Here are some of my favourites:
In my time observing the Morelos sitcom, I only was ever to establish ONE serious inquiry, and that was from Porto.
However, the Portuguese outfit’s valuation on the Colombian wasn’t near what the Sevco High Command hoped to get.
There were other…ahem…genuine offers breathlessly reported by the sports desks, but I could never nail them down.
We’ll leave it at that!
On the field, he was regularly indulged by match officials, who often seemed to turn a blind eye to his petulant off-the-ball elbowing and general play-acting.
I know of one England-based agent who was told to look at him for a Championship club during the 2018-2019 season.
He assessed that if the South American played in England, he would be regularly red-carded for his antics.
Consequently, the club in question didn’t pursue the matter.
Now the work experience manager has publicly trashed his ample frontman with four games remaining.
It is an ignominious denouement to an episode of shameful shilling by the Stenography Corps.
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Beale had a lot to say about the lack of effort etc from Elduffalo and yet he was the one who put his name on the teamsheet week in and week out. The exact same scenario with Kent. I’d play one of the B team rather those two. HH
Alfredo shafted them big time…He’ll do for me… VAYA CON DIOUS fat boy.
My twopenceworth.
If you just take the games between them, Celtic have “failed to turn up” against Sevco in the last few games.
This has been turned into a positive with forums arguing even when we are poor they still can’t beat us. Why aren’t we “turning up”?
Ange is going nowhere for the following reason.
No EPL club hoping to be involved in Europe will come in for Ange until they see how well he does in the Champion’s League this year so the best he could hope for is a middle of the table club. Not an attractive proposition.
I also do not think he is the type of man who, after beating his breast in front of the support, tantamount to kissing the badge and declaring his love of the club, would just walk away that easily.
He seems a genuine principled human being so let’s hope the board give him what he wants to get to the next stage in Europe even if it makes him a more attractive proposition for the bigger clubs.
Who’s remotely interested in this creep any other league in the world this halfwit would be suspended 3/4 of the season…
a well worked strategy to bring in “raw” players and develop them … unusual strategy with a manger … i hope they stick with it .
Is Cantwell the new pin up boy?
No doubt Morelos is a talented footballer and given the right circumstances could have been coached to be a very good player. However he was poster boy at rangers and he knew he could do what he wanted.
Football is about the team not the individual and he should have been treated the same as any player in that team. Get out of line get dropped or fined. Work hard to stay in the team but alas he preferred Greggs.
I agree entirely.
If Morelos had the proper motivation (and the consequent incentive) then there’s something about him that might just have made him relevant in football and a genuine ‘gamechanger’.
As you stated though, he was overindulged and feted as something greater than the sum of his parts.
At some point in the future – the rather plump, half-haircutted, manpigbeast will have to consider how much of his soul (and no little talent) he gave to an ungrateful baying mob of neanderthal, purple pointy-heided, ragin’ ragin’ arseholes for two medals and 4 goals against the most successful team in Scotland and then just ask himself……why? (Perhaps the £45k a week was suitable compensation for his eventual eternity in hell).
Anyways, it’s all immaterial…….the norm has resumed over the last 20-months. They foam at the mooth, while we bite on silver.
Joking aside, [briefly],
Morelos is still only 26.
He did have a couple of good seasons,
but, rather than developing as a player,
he has seriously regressed to the point where no club
wants him, and the photo at the top of this page shows someone
who does not look the slightest bit like a professional athlete.
[Unless he’s a Sumo Wrestler?]
That comes down to Morelos’ attitude and lack of ambition.
Additionally, it comes down to the attitude and lack of ambition at Ibrox.
Beale should have dropped Morelos into the youth team until he shaped up.
That Beale continued to choose Morelos – and as a starter – must have been truly
demotivating to younger players at Ibrox?
And it does make you wonder: what would Morelos be like today as a player,
if he had played for quality managers?
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Regardless, Morelos peaked a few years ago. A wasted talent.
Just wait till the stratospheric bids roll in for the poundshop Beckham (Brooklyn that is, not David) aka Todd Cantwell.
You mean the blonde cheerleader can’t play football but jumps up and down waving his arms
If transfers were done by the lbs he’d have been the most expensive footballer ever
Maybe he’s s secretly eating a lot of jelly and ice cream like the rest of us Tims
Phil, they don’t need the money for him anyway especially with £100 million “Investment” to be announced tomorrow.
Another 48 hrs
Always tomorrow 😂
Is that ‘investment’ to be announced at the same time as the ‘jam tomorrow’ one?
Investors usually want a return on their investment.
‘Usually’ but there’s nothing usual about ibrox Phil.
In fact I’m sure they prefer the ‘emotional’ investors rather than the financial types.
UEFA’s new FSR ordinances are designed to prevent that type of external finance.