Rangers flop Carlos Pena has been excluded from the club’s training camp in Tenerife as he continues his search for a new club, according to the Scottish Sun.
The national newspaper claim the Mexican has been frozen out after reporting back to Glasgow last month following two failed loan spells in his homeland.
The Scottish Sun report the £2.2midfielder is struggling to deal with an alcohol addiction following a series of controversial, off-the-field incidents that have left a big question mark over his career.
OPINION
With a salary that the Scottish Sun report is worth £26,000-a-week, shifting Pena is going to be easier said than done. He demonstrated only fleeting signs of why Pedro Caixinha sanctioned such eye-watering sums to sign him in the summer of 2017, back when the club had no director of football, no proper recruitment strategy and relied upon second-rate managers and half-baked agents to bring in new talent. It has got to the point where Rangers need to cancel Pena’s registration, write off the remaining 18 months on his contract and move on. No club are going to pay proper money for him after he burned his bridges at the elite clubs in his native Mexico. As for Pena getting a deal on a par with his mega Ibrox salary, forget it. That won’t happen. Rangers need to put this deal down to experience and just reflect on how terrible deals such as the one for the attacking midfielder prompted such significant changes such as the recruitment of Mark Allen and a professional scouting set-up.