Rangers official partner tells Michael Beale he will be sacked with current squad amid Aberdeen slog
Michael Beale will get sacked as Rangers boss if he sticks with some of the current squad, according to club partner Heart & Hand podcast.
It ended with a dramatic 3-2 victory at Pittodrie on Tuesday night (20 December) but the majority of the game was a tough watch with players well below par, highlighting the work that the new manager has on his hands.
Scott Arfield struck twice in injury time to rescue all three points, but there was a reason that the club had to change manager mid-season and the new man has been warned that the same will happen again without significant alterations.
Posting on Twitter before the dramatic finish Heart & Hand wrote: “Beale discovered tonight just why the manager job was available. This squad needs gutted.
“Too many are past it or never-will-bes and they’ll get him the sack if he perseveres with them.”
It was a slightly different story nearly an hour later after the win had been secured, with another post that said: “Aberdeen should just wrap playing us btw, if they couldn’t beat us with us playing like that…”.
Sell-by dates
Beale’s arrival alone isn’t going to rectify the entire situation that brought him back to the club in the first place, and there’s a reason that Ross Wilson got a grilling from one shareholder at the AGM earlier this month.
Injuries haven’t helped at all, especially at the back, but this is anything but a settled squad that knows what it is yet.
He’s a Rangers institution but captain James Tavernier looks like a man who needs some real competition to push him back to his best, and the jury has to be out on the likes of James Sands and Ben Davies on the whole.
Alfredo Morelos found the net in Beale’s first game back against Hibs on Thursday (15 December) but still isn’t anything like the El Bufalo of old.
And with the Light Blues searching for goals late on it isn’t a great sign for Rabbi Matondo that he was left unused on the bench again.
Arfield managed to do the job but at 34 he is clearly not for the long-term so there is plenty to do with the playing staff, and with the January transfer window less than two weeks away now it is going to be instructive going forward who comes and goes next month.
In other Rangers news, Jim White was stunned by the added-time drama.