The Mooch Is Going To Throw Half Fit Players In Against Celtic No Matter What.

In the aftermath of their win over Motherwell last night, The Mooch pretty much confirmed, again, what this website wrote about earlier in the week; half of the Ibrox players are struggling with injuries and many of them shouldn’t be playing at all.

The latest to get injured was Morelos, who went off last night with what many think was a pulled hamstring.

The Mooch didn’t even bother to duck the issue. He revealed that Morels probably should not even have been out on the pitch, that he was subbed against Aberdeen because he wasn’t nearly fit and had “felt something go.”

Morelos is coming up for having just six months left on his deal. It’s all very well the Ibrox club being cavalier about the remainder of his career and his life after football, but he shouldn’t be.

They surely don’t care what happens to him at this point; he isn’t going to sign a new deal and so his value drops by the day. If he plays injured and makes it worse, so be it. They don’t lose anything from it either way. Inside Ibrox they know this campaign is largely out of their reach … they certainly don’t need him to make the difference.

The same goes for a half dozen others, but The Mooch needs to start trying to close that gap at some point and he must realise waiting for other clubs to do it might take a while. So the health of the players be damned. This is about his ego and that’s what counts.

So I ignore the nonsense about Morelos being out of the game.

If he can walk to the pharmacy for an injection, I reckon he’ll be in the team.

But even if he misses out, who are their other options? They have Colak who’s been out for weeks and can’t be near match sharpness, or there is the big hulking brute Roofe, who hasn’t played in months.

There is no scenario where their lead striker in the game is 100%. Neither is half of their midfield and there are probably memos floating around their medical suite to that affect … but none of it is going to matter a damn. The reek of fear wafting out of Ibrox right now is that of a club in a panic and which has lost all sense of proportion.

No matter what way you cut it, they are in one Hell of a state going into this game and The Mooch will risk everything – in particular the safety of his players.

He has already acknowledged the superior technical skills of Celtic and is threatening to turn it into a “blood and thunder” game; in any other nation refs would be automatically on alert.

Celtic certainly should be.

But that he’s willing to throw obviously unfit players into such an encounter is very revealing, and it’s the kind of thing that infuriates agents and footballers both.

Morelos’ backroom team must be raging about this, and Kent’s will be watching as well.