Morlos is staying just like Kent definitely wasn't coming. These are people who are not 'running' a football club as much as they are playing it by ear. It's shambolic - it's an extension of the culture of the criminal enterprise that has carried over from their Old Club.
Kent's arrival reeked of Murrayism - after months of self-delusion, inflated by a sycophantic and delusional media, they were 'shocked' to be so easily swept aside by Celtic in the Glasgow derby, so they reacted by panic buying Ryan Kent. I don't believe Gerrard was 'bluffing' when, just before the Glasgow derby, he said Kent definitely wasn't coming. I don't know what Steven Gerrard was like before he became the manager of Sevco, but he's a perfect front man for King's dodgy, unsustainable enterprise - he can certainly say Morelos is 100% staying, but if hypothetically speaking an English Premier League team come in for him in January, does this mean that Gerrard will tell him he can't go, therefore having an unsettled player within the Sevco ranks, and does it mean the club that needs £10 million to literally keep the lights on won't take anything they can get for their 'assets'?
There is the possibility that Sevco could try to appease Morelos by offering him a new contract worth even more money - he's already on £30,000-per-week, and they're already spending a huge amount of money, money they can't afford, on player wages. Given clubs like Bournemouth, Norwich and Southampton can pay mediocre players £70,000-per-week, it seems unlikely even a club as fiscally deranged as Sevco could match such wages.
But there's possibly a whiff of the dark arts going on here. One week, Morelos is all over the Colombian media saying he wants to play at a higher level than the Scottish Premiership, but then his manager is coming out saying he '100%' isn't going anywhere - it has all the hallmarks of an attempt to force potential suitors to come in with bigger bids.
But herein lies the problems: if Morelos didn't attract even the merest hint of interest from English Premier League clubs in the summer, what will magically change by December? Has there really been a drastic transformation in his skill set that suddenly means he's going to be adorned with offers? That remains to be seen.
But one thing is for sure: Sevco need to offload players. Not just to cover what has already been lost, but to cover what is being lost every single time they pay exorbitant wages not just to Morelos, but to Joe Aribo or Jermain Defore or a cluster of other players who are draining the club.
