Stuart McCall plays down Rangers contract worries as he insists impossible transfer riddle has one simple answer

It's a decision no more appealing than being asked to choose which of your fingers you’d like chopped off. But the growing likelihood is that Rangers boss Gio van Bronckhorst will have to make his mind up this summer on which of his key match-winning talents he can most afford to do without.

The Dutchman faces an impossible conundrum in the weeks ahead now that Alfredo Morelos, Ryan Kent and Joe Aribo have entered the final 12 months of their Ibrox contracts. If extensions cannot be agreed, the Gers gaffer must either opt to cash in this window or risk losing a multi-million-pound bonanza next May when this fabulously talented triumvirate would be entitled to walk out onto Edmiston Drive and off into the distance without having to toss a single penny into the Ibrox coffers on their way out.

There may be a justification in taking a hit and holding on to one, perhaps even two, as their contracts run down but the financial imperatives mean the Rangers board are likely to want some kind of return on their investments before the current window slams shut.

So the choice comes down to which of the three vitally important players do you keep? Is it Morelos, a striker who Gers have found impossible to replace during his five years in Glasgow but also one whose reliability rises and falls with his mood swings? Or Kent, a wideman capable of getting lost in the humdrum of domestic action only to explode into life when the stakes are highest?

Then there’s Nigerian playmaker Aribo, who looked a stick-on for the player of the year prizes last term until he emptied his tank at the African Cup of Nations and was left running on fumes as Rangers went the distance in the Europa League. For former Ibrox boss Stuart McCall, it’s a