Alfredo Morelos has scored 23 goals but picked up four red cards for Rangers so would he get into Celtic’s Scottish Premiership leading team?
Davie Provan has told the Scottish Sun that Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers would jump at the chance to sign under-fire Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos – if given the opportunity.
Colombian hitman Morelos has made headlines on a regular basis this season but not always for the right reasons. He has scored 23 goals in all competitions this season, comfortably surpassing his tally from the 2017/18 campaign.
But Morelos has also been sent off four times, the most recent coming in the 4-2 win against Aberdeen last week for an unseemly clash with Scott McKenna. As a result, he was suspended and badly missed as the Gers stuttered to a goalless Scottish Cup draw with Kilmarnock.
But, speaking to the Scottish Sun, former Celtic winger Provan has claimed that Rodgers would not say no if he was offered the chance to bring Morelos to Parkhead in some strange alternate reality.
“Like every other coach in this business, (Rangers manager Steven Gerrard) would have Jack the Ripper up front if he was good for 25 goals a season,” said Provan, who played for The Hoops between 1978 and 1987.
“Football managers can’t afford principles. Put it this way, you can bet Brendan Rodgers would take Morelos tomorrow given the chance.”
To back up his point, Provan has pointed out that Luis Suarez immediately returned to Liverpool’s starting XI after serving his ten game ban for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic during Rodgers’ spell in the Anfield dug-out. And everyone remembers Eric Cantona’s kung-fu kick.
Sometimes a player is absolutely instrumental to your side’s hopes of success that the other side of his character can be swept under the carpet.
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