BARCELONA should buy Rangers star Alfredo Morelos as the ideal replacement for injured Luis Suarez, according to Colombia’s most decorated manager Jorge Luis Pinto.
Morelos is currently suspended after his Old Firm sending off last month and has netted 28 goals for club and country in all competitions this season.
Jorge Luis Pinto says Rangers star Morelos would be ideal man to replace Suarez at BarcelonaCredit: PA:Press Association
Suarez is out until the summer with a serious injuryCredit: AP:Associated Press
Ibrox manager Steven Gerrard has insisted there is no chance they will sell their talisman this transfer window.
But former Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras and current Millonarios manager Pinto reckons his countryman should be heading to the Nou Camp.
Barcelona are on the look-out for a new striker after ex-Liverpool ace Suarez was ruled out for the rest of the season with a serious knee injury.
And the La Liga giants should target Rangers star Morelos as the ideal striker to replace him, according to Pinto, who led Costa Rica to the quarter finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and has managed teams in Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela as well as in his Colombian homeland.
He would tread the opposite path to Gers legend Ronad de Boer, who left the Nou Camp for Glasgow in 2000, playing four seasons under Dick Advocaat.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst ended up winning the Champions League at Barca after three seasons at Rangers, with two years at Arsenal in between.
Pinto said: “Alfredo Morelos would be the ideal striker to replace Luis Suarez for me.
“Why not? His performances in the last year certainly suggests that he could replace him. He has been a battering ram at Rangers.
“I’ve got huge admiration for what Alfredo has achieved so far in European football and he’s still young.”
Rangers had a strong Dutch contingent in the early 2000s who also played for BarcelonaCredit: Reuters
Rangers star Alfredo Morelos hands out food packages to those in need in his hometown
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
