Alfredo Morelos could snub Rangers transfer and avoid repeating one of my biggest mistakes - Barry Ferguson

The smart money claims Alfredo Morelos is already halfway out of the front door of Ibrox and on his way back to Seville. Call me naive or maybe I’m just an optimist but I’m really not so sure we’ve seen the last of the Colombian in a blue shirt.

Yes, we’re all aware that he’s into the last year of his contract and that he’s always had a burning ambition to make it into one of Europe’s biggest leagues. I get all that. But, trust me, I also know a thing or two about how hard it is to leave a club like Rangers – having made one of the biggest mistakes of my life when I thought the grass might be greener playing in England’s Premier League with Blackburn Rovers.

It wasn’t. And it took me less than two weeks down the road to realise how wrong I was. I wouldn’t like to see Alfredo making the same mistake that I did all those years ago and I just have this funny feeling in the pit of my stomach that there might be a huge twist coming in his tale.

The word is that Seville are willing to pay around €8million to pick him up this summer and although my maths have never been great I’m pretty sure that’s less than £7m in real money.

Are they having a laugh? He might well be entering the final year of his deal but his goals would be worth far more than that if he fires Rangers into the Champions League group stage.

So why on earth would the people in charge of my old club even think about entertaining such a lowball offer?

No, they won’t even have a decision to make until some-one out there comes in at well north of £10m. Only then will they have to seriously weigh up their options.

They’d have to sit down with the player at that point and get inside his head because if he’s desperate to leave, then they could find themselves