Ibrox’s Elite Players Are Available For Free And Their Offers Are Pitifully Poor.

If ever football fans have long needed a reality check it is the Ibrox fans and their insistence for all these years that Kent and Morelos were special footballers capable of playing for massive clubs.

When these guys were in the first team, with big contracts, the club loved nothing more than to push stories into the papers about interest in them. We all laughed at it. The idea that teams were allegedly planning massive bids was fanciful rubbish.

Nothing sums that up more than the poor quality of clubs who are interested in signing these guys now that they are available for nothing.

Sevilla in Spain sounds like a big one for Morelos, but I never believed that nonsense. Much more likely is that he will move to Turkey, to play for one of their mid-table sides. Ryan Kent, who is hysterically over-hyped, is attracting the interest of Burnley. That’s about his level; a newly promoted side almost certain to go back down again.

The stories linking these players with eight figure moves were mocked mercilessly by our fans, and not for nothing. Yet their supporters lapped them up. There was a time when they were counting the “value” of their squad and coming up with figures worth more than the whole of our club with the fixtures and fittings included.

The notoriously dire Transfermarkt.com has long had Kent as the “most valuable player in the country.” Now that he’s available for free, where are the multiple offers which bear that out? Where do the people running that site get their valuations? The Follow Follow basement floor? The Daily Record panel of “experts?” Hugh Keevins himself?

As Celtic fans we don’t pretend to be the finest judges of footballers on the planet, but by God we know what it is that we watch every week, and we see almost as much of the Ibrox club as we do our own and we never hear the end of it when these guys have a good game. But we also know how seldom that is. We know how ineffectual they are.

We no longer have to say it. These guys are not going to top clubs, and at their age these will probably be the biggest moves they ever make. These two were amongst the most over-rated players this game has had … and even now they start for the Ibrox club every week. And they wonder why we’re so far in front of them.