Angry QPR fans edit Michael Beale Wikipedia as Rangers-bound manager dubbed ‘hypocritical’
QPR fans aren’t taking the news well that manager Michael Beale is set to quit Loftus Road to head to Rangers to replace Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
The 4th Official reported on Saturday (26 November) that the deal to bring the 42-year-old former Gers assistant back to Ibrox is “done” with £1.5million in compensation set to be paid to the English Championship club.
Beale will be leaving QPR just over a month after pleading his loyalty to them when he rejected the managerial vacancy at Premier League strugglers Wolves.
Beale is now set to accept the job at Rangers and that’s led to QPR fans taking to Wikipedia and editing the Bromley-born manager’s page to call him “a disloyal, lying and hypocritical English football coach who is currently manager of EFL Championship side Queens Park Rangers for the next six weeks.”
Concerning?
As quoted by The Sun last month, Beale said that “integrity and loyalty are big things” for him after he rejected the job offer from Wolves.
He’s now set to quit Loftus Road – where he’s started quite well in his managerial career – to move back to Rangers, where he served as Steven Gerrard’s assistant.
Should it concern Rangers fans that Beale has done this?
Rangers fans love nothing more than loyalty towards their club so would Beale just quit at the first opportunity he gets if he does well in Govan?
His CV as a manager is almost non-existent and although he’s been at Ibrox very recently, he’s got nowhere near the experience that van Bronckhorst did.
And what worries us most is that Ross Wilson and Stewart Robertson are yet again going for the easy option.
They did it last year by offering new deals to Steven Davis and Allan McGregor despite them being past their sell-by date.
Why? Because it was easier to do that than find a replacement.
Now they’re just hiring a recent assistant manager at the club to come back.
It’s lazy recruitment, yet again.
In other Rangers news, the Gers have sounded out three other managers in case the deal for Beale goes south.