KRIS BOYD has blasted Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos insisting he would not offer the Colombian a new contract.
The Ibrox frontman started up top against St Mirren today and has just three touches in the opposition box as Giovanni van Bronckhorst's team slumped to a 1-1 draw in Paisley.
Morelos looked miles off the pace and he was easily marked out the game by Declan Gallagher.
Reacting to his performance, Boyd fumed: “I don’t think he is going about it the right way if he is wanting a new contract that is for sure.
“I listen to a lot of people and they say he deserves it for what he has done in the past. It is in the past.
“If you flip it the other way and say to the Rangers recruitment team, if you are going and watching a Bologna, Verona a Cardiff City whoever if you are watching Morelos the way he is playing right now for any of those teams, are you going to sign him? I wouldn’t.
“I think everything is slow and lethargic. If you look at him he isn’t getting involved in things. He is taking himself away from the action.
“Get yourself in the box. For me today I think I would have changed it earlier.
“He should have put the young boy on Robbie Ure earlier. Morelos is not fit enough.
“People will say he has not played a lot of football. That is because of him.
“Antonio Colak was brought in as back up for Morelos and he has now replaced him because of the way Morelos is.
“At the start if you could have picked one you would have picked Morelos. He has got himself into this condition.
“He has got himself into this position in his career where he is at a crossroads. He is on a healthy contract at Rangers and rightly so for what he done in the past.
“That doesn’t guarantee you a new one right now. There is no doubt about it he has let his teammates down, he’s let his club down and something needs to be done about it.
“It shouldn’t take a new contract for him to start trying.”
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