Alfredo Morelos and the Rangers prophecy from Caixinha that came true as final derby hurrah asks one more question

Can't live with him, can’t live without him.

Michael Beale isn’t the first Rangers manager to struggle with that Colombian quandary but he will be the last. Alfredo Morelos’ days in Glasgow are numbered and with just four games remaining until he brings his often explosive, never dull, six-year stint at Ibrox to an end, he’ll soon become someone else’s problem. But until El Bufalo finally moves on to grazing pastures new, Beale has three more weeks where the responsibility of dealing with Morelos remains his.

It’s a challenge each of the four men to have occupied the manager’s office at Ibrox before Beale have also wrestled with. Pedro Caixinha was the man who sanctioned the £1million investment that lured the then unknown South America from HJK Helsinki in the summer of 2017. The Portuguese flop only lasted another four months in the job but long enough to spot the first signs of trouble.

“Morelos needs to control his emotional side,” Pedro pointed out ahead of the young import’s first Old Firm clash. He’ll be provoked but he has to remain calm. If I was an opposition manager, I’d say to my team to provoke Morelos. It will happen.”

He didn’t get much right during his time in Glasgow but Caixinha was bang on with that one. His sacking opened the door for Graeme Murty to return for a second ill-fated spell as Ibrox caretaker – just as the latch was being taken off China’s transfer window too.

Rumours of a big money move to the Far East with Beijing Renhe would become the first of numerous transfer tales that ended up going nowhere – other than to lead the Ibrox support down the garden path.

Murty admitted the striker’s “head had been turned” – but it was the kids coach who was left looking away in astonishment when an