Ibrox Confirms Its Departure List Spinning That The Club Itself Made The Choices.

Today Ibrox has released a statement confirming that five players – Morelos, Kent, McGregor, Arfield and Helander – will be leaving at the end of the season, which is basically just days away now. This not at all unexpected.

Nor is the way they have tried to spin this as something that the club itself decided to do. The Daily Record was at it the other day too, with a story about Morelos that said he doesn’t fit into The Mooch’s style and so is being “allowed” to leave.

The Mooch himself has been trying variations on this line from the minute he arrived. He made the preposterous claim that the club were the ones “in control” of the situation with these guys when he was only a few weeks into the job … and nobody in the media contradicted him although it was perfectly obvious that he was talking guff.

The media is characterising this as part of the rebuild, rather than the reason for it. And The Mooch is talking about releasing more players, to get the wage bill down. There is talk that they will offer Lundstram and others deals and try to punt them if they don’t sign those deals. Ha! Good luck with that. They’ve been trying to punt some of the guys whose departures were just announced for ages and there were no takers.

Morelos and Kent were never as good as the Ibrox club made them out to be. But they have been key footballers and Morelos was always likely to pop up with a goal in an important game, and I will not really be terribly sad to see him go.

The Mooch knows that this is a lot of talent and experience going out the door. He knows that’s not good news, no matter how much he tries to dress it up. The media knows it too. This is not, as they claim, something the club planned. The club almost certainly did everything it could to prevent this, and they have been completely unable to.

They know it’s a disaster. No amount of media whitewash will change that.