Luis Palma being linked with a move to Rangers has been met with the usual response from Rangers fans.
The recruitment team at Auchenhowie and Michael Beale can’t win.
Rumoured to be in for Morgan Whittaker and we moan about signing too many players from England.
Identify a promising winger from Honduras playing in Greece and he isn’t good enough.
Luis Palma, with 11 goals and seven assists, could well be the winger Rangers have been crying out for.
It’s going to be a long summer if you are a Rangers fan waiting on a player of Brian Laudrup, Paul Gascoigne or Ronald de Boer’s quality to be paraded at Ibrox.
For a start, the money simply isn’t there to go out and buy guaranteed success.
Why Luis Palma link is a positive one for Rangers
Celtic have taken a few gambles in recent years, the difference is, theirs have paid off.
Kyogo Furuhashi might have been too lightweight for Scottish football and loan-to-buy deals for Cameron Carter-Vickers and Jota could easily have back fired.
Ours for James Sands didn’t come off but it was a good deal on paper and Malik Tillman might yet prove to be a winner.
Manager’s will always want to bring in players that they trust or know well, Michael Beale is no different.
To make the comparison again, it worked well for Ange Postecolgu shopping in a league he had just managed in.
For the Rangers boss, just because players might be arriving from Swansea City or Norwich City, it doesn’t make them any less suitable for his game plan, or poorer in quality.
Michael Beale has a very specific idea of what he wants from his squad for next season and he has to be backed by the board to get what he wants.
If that is a promising player from Greece, so be it. If that is a player currently sitting on the bench in the Championship, again, so be it.
We can mump and moan all we want but, the reality is, we can’t do anything about it.
We have to trust that these are the players who are going to bring silverware back to Rangers.
A lot of fans wanted Ross Wilson gone and for Beale to be given more freedom, we can’t have it both ways.
