Rangers summer recruitment plan is well underway according to one Scottish journalist as John Park, not Ross Wilson, leads the Michael Beale rebuild.
The departed sporting director will get to enjoy a significantly bigger budget now, even if the Premier League strugglers return to the Championship but all eyes are on who will be responsible for getting the right players into Ibrox.
Ross Wilson, despite popular social media misconception, wasn’t responsible for identifying and signing every player for Rangers on his own.
A recruitment team involves several moving parts, including the manager, and Michael Beale has been clear about how much influence he is going to have when the window re-opens.
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The good thing with having a sporting director to co-ordinate departments is that targets should already be identified and their clubs contacted to assess potential player availability.
Going one further on Twitter, the Rangers Review’s Jonny McFarlane has claimed, in response to a Rangers fans’ concerns, that Beale and Park already have our ducks in a row as the club look to rebuild a broken squad.
On the day that Wilson left Rangers, it will have been news to some that player recruitment isn’t the sole responsibility of the sporting director.
Now, Michael Beale will be supported by John Park, the scouting department boss, with a rumoured exit to Hibs now seeming highly unlikely for the former Celtic chief scout.
Theoretically, this should mean that we will be ok for now but a replacement for Wilson will likely be needed to help conduct negotiations and oversee the whole operation.
Part of his remit and, arguably, the biggest one, was the development of the football structure and there are the personalities in place to make sure that work can still continue behind the scenes.
It will be a close knit team from the analysts to those that sign off on the deals but for those that are cheering Wilson’s return to England – it’s probably Stewart Robertson that will be heading up our negotiations, for now at least.
Be careful what you wish for and all that.
