No matter what happens to the three-pronged assault on silverware Giovanni van Bronckhorst is heading up this term, the summer will see a radical Rangers overhaul. 

Defensive leader Connor Goldson will almost certainly depart. Steven Davis and Allan McGregor would seem unlikely to continue in the twilight of their careers. Perhaps most worryingly, high-value assets Joe Aribo, Ryan Kent and Alfredo Morelos will all come into the final years of their deals. 

While the club can opt to keep the quintet in place for another year, a decision to allow them to walk away for free in the summer of 2023 would mean taking a significant financial loss on their transfer values. While a possibility given the precedent set by Connor Goldson, this turn of events seems incompatible with the player trading model the Ibrox club have implemented. 

There are no easy answers to many of the questions Ross Wilson will face as he looks to balance some modicum of stability and continuity with the financial reality of keeping top players in Scotland. 

You’d imagine English born Kent and Aribo will find themselves in significant demand from English clubs as home-grown additions to Premier League squads. And you wouldn’t be surprised if the Europa League heroics of Kent, in particular, don’t inspire interest from abroad. Bundesliga sides will surely have been watching him torture Dortmund with interest, and in a league where the high press culture leaves space in abundance, Kent could run amok. 

These two players are in the prime of their careers and the notion of new deals seem fanciful given their profile and potential. In short, it’s realistic to think both are playing out their final months in Royal Blue. 

That leaves us with the man who has been tipped to leave for so long many take it for granted it’s happening every transfer window – Alfredo Morelos. 

Lille came closest to forcing through a deal in the summer of 2020 but Rangers refused to budge on their £20m valuation. A £16.5m offer from the Ligue 1 club was right on the cusp of what could be considered reasonable. It would have been tempting but the board held firm to the notion of not selling for less than their valuation which is a strategy to be commended. 

Morelos, who has often given the impression he’d been quite keen to move elsewhere, is now understood to be more settled in Glasgow with his wife and young child. 

A man who puts a great store in helping the people back home in Cerete via his foundation, the striker clearly wants to maximise his earning potential to help achieve laudable aims for both his own family and larger community. That’s to be commended and shows the archetype of the bullying, aggressive, rampaging Buffalo gives way to a gentler side off the pitch. 

It’s slightly odd that as the years have gone by, the transfer stampede that seemed to follow his every goal has ebbed away. For whatever reason, top clubs have taken a look and decided against taking a punt. 

Morelos is a streaky, at times inconsistent player who can’t be relied upon to hit 20 goals a season in the domestic game. The closest he’s come is 17. And yet, anyone who watches him regularly will tell you how essential he is to Rangers performing with alacrity. 

He may not be icy calm when he sees the whites of the keeper’s eyes but if you want someone to occupy an entire back line there are few better. 

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His build-up play has improved enormously under the tutelage of Steven Gerrard and at 25 is a much more mature player than the buffalo in a China shop that first emerged on the scene under Pedro Caixinha. 

While he has his flaws, he makes up for them spectacularly and has become irreplaceable, both on the pitch and as a totem for the support.

And yet, perhaps he could be even more.

For example, what would a side that actually played to his strengths look like? 

For Morelos’ entire career at Ibrox he’s had the pressure of being the main man but what if you built a team around him that brought goals from the wide men and midfielders to both take a little of the take the pressure off and make use of his ability to drop deep. You’d wager his improved overall play would pay dividends. 

Van Bronckhorst has already taken the 25-year old's game to another level, simplifying a convoluted role earlier in the season and bringing a level of performance far better than what was seen under his old boss. 

Perhaps for his next trick the Dutchman could persuade the Colombian that Ibrox remains the best route to winning that elusive financially game-changing move. 

Sadly for Rangers, that day will inevitably come but it can be positive for both parties if his true value can be realised and Morelos gets the move he’s been looking for to a top club. 

With a manager that seems to get the best out of him, and a team needing to be rebuilt, if Rangers could find a way to make Morelos the foundation stone to van Bronckhorst’s grand vision, then a beautiful structure seems possible. 

And what could be better than Morelos leading from the front in his inimitable style, writing one more storied chapter in what has already become an epic Rangers story.