Rangers will see a new director of football recruitment arrive in a few days time but leaving it all to Michael Beale during the summer has left Philippe Clement with a tougher job than it should have been.
Now Sunderland’s head coach, the former Gers boss has been speaking about his time at Ibrox and why he felt that things didn’t go according to plan.
Bizarrely, the reason he has given doesn’t really add up with his comments when Ross Wilson left Rangers as Michael Beale looks to restore his battered reputation.
Rangers exit comments don’t add up for Michael Beale
When asked about his time at Rangers by Sunderland’s media team, he replied with a comment specifically about not having a sporting director:
“I went into QPR as a head coach and originally went into Rangers in the same role. There was a lot of changes with people leaving and I got pulled in different places.”
What Michael Beale is suggesting is that he went into Rangers to be a head coach and not have the same responsibility when it came to signing players and building a squad.
However, when Wilson left for Nottingham Forest, his tune was entirely different:
“In the short term, I will oversee what happens here at the training ground day in day out. I am very close to the recruitment staff anyway, a lot of our targets and the conversations are up and running, pre-season is planned.
“So, for me, it is the loss of a close ally at the club and a good friend that I enjoyed working with but in terms of my role I just crack on as normal.”
At the time, he openly said that his job isn’t changing and that he would just continue as he had been doing.
Michael Beale was also involved in the process of finding a director of football and went as far as to say later on that Rangers had enough people in the right places with the relevant experience.
If Beale is to be a success in management he has to be more self reflective and show more humility.
Don’t big players up too much before they have even signed and be willing to accept that plan A doesn’t always work.
It’s almost like he is trying to blame other factors for not being able to get a tune out of a squad he built.
Rangers fans were far from happy with Michael Beale as it was, not accepting any blame for our start to the season isn’t going to do him any favours either.
