Livingston boss Gary Holt has revealed the club have had no enquiries about Lyndon Dykes but the speculation has given training ground pranksters plenty of ammunition for high jinks.
The former Queen of the South striker is on a list of possible transfers at Rangers after scoring 12 goals in his debut season for Livi, including nine Scottish Premiership strikes.
The 24-year-old is currently considering his international future following offers from Australia and Scotland but his club situation is less complicated - for now.
Holt said: "We have had no conversations with anybody regarding it. But everyone knows at this club, if you come here and do well, as boys have done in the past, you will move on, simple as that, and we’ll thank you for your time.
"But as long as it’s the right deal for this club then that’s what will happen. Otherwise it won’t happen. Simple.
"But right now we have not had a conversation about him to anybody.
"He’s had a fair bit of ribbing shall we say. He’s taking it well. That’s part and parcel of football, it’s part and parcel of our club, you have got to take the rough with the smooth.
"He knows what we are doing, he knows where he wants to get to. But he’s got to do it for us. This is where he’s employed, this is his club.
"And if he produces the performances he did last season, and improves on that, who knows who will come knocking?"
