Michael Beale to respond to Rangers job offer on Saturday with Stewart Robertson talks planned
Michael Beale will accept the Rangers job on Saturday after talking with key players at Ibrox on Friday night, according to the Scottish Daily Mail.
The newspaper reported via their print edition on Saturday (26 November, back page and page 115) that Beale, 42, had been told by close confidantes that leaving QPR so soon wouldn’t look great.
However, it is understood that Steven Gerrard’s former assistant is now set for talks with managing director Stewart Robertson and sporting director Ross Wilson on Saturday that “he’s up for the challenge”.
The Scottish Daily Mail adds that provided all goes well, Beale is expected to join up with the Rangers squad on Monday (28 November) to meet them after they return from a two-week holiday.
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After Giovanni van Bronckhorst was sacked at the start of this week, a lot of Rangers fans agreed that bringing Beale back to Ibrox would be a good move.
Not only has he started off well at QPR but he’s also a man who was vital to Gerrard’s success in Govan and the squad has barely changed since he left just over a year ago.
Gerrard’s been found out at Aston Villa without Beale as his assistant so it does seem to us as though the Bromley-born coach was a key element to the success we had back then.
It won’t be an easy job for him though.
Beale will inherit a mess of a squad that needs to be sorted out either in January or next summer.
If that doesn’t happen then Wilson and co will be setting up the incoming Gers boss to fail because not many managers will be able to work well with these tools being provided to them.
Beale is the right pick.
He just needs the support from the board and he also needs the players to pull their finger out because too many of them let van Bronckhorst down massively in the opening months of this season.
In other Rangers news, another manager who’s been linked with the job has been spotted following the Light Blues on social media.