Douglas Park: Rangers may not be able to meet Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent's contract demands

Park was questioned on the players' futures at the club's AGM

Author: Gabriel AntoniazziPublished 6th Dec 2022

Rangers Chairman Douglas Park has told the club's AGM that the Gers may not be able to meet the contract demands of key players Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent.

The duo are two of eleven players out of contract in six months' time and are free to speak to other clubs from January.

In the Q&A section of the meeting, one shareholder asked why neither had been sold last summer when the players still had high value.

Sporting director Ross Wilson answered first: "They've not been allowed. Two parties need to commit.

"Ryan and Alfredo are in different situations but there is a willingness for the boys to stay with us from the club."

Park then suggested that Rangers had made the best offers they could: "The board tried to negotiate and sometimes if the terms are unattainable you have to accept you have done your best."

The club have previously knocked back double figure bids for both Kent and Morelos, who have dropped below their top form this campaign.

Kent has only scored three goals across the last two league seasons, whilst Morelos has dropped behind striker Antonio Colak in the team's pecking order.

The Gers trail league leaders Celtic by nine points.

New manager Michael Beale will take charge of his first game against Hibernian next Thursday.