Robby McCrorie to hand in Rangers transfer request with Michael Beale snub on the cards
Robby McCrorie’s future at Rangers could be sealed by the end of play on Sunday if Michael Beale decides against starting him against Aberdeen at Pittodrie.
Rangers’ Scottish Premiership season is effectively done and dusted with a runners-up spot nailed on due to Celtic’s stranglehold on the top spot going into the end-of-season split.
There’s no time like the present for McCrorie, 25, to finally be given a chance to show what he’s got in a first-team setting at Pittodrie.
McCrorie’s still got two years left on his Ibrox contract, he’s 25 years old, he’s only ever played twice for the Light Blues’ senior side, Allan McGregor’s contract is ending this summer and Jon McLaughlin has been absolutely hopeless when he’s played.
While winning at Aberdeen is the next best thing in Scottish football to winning an Old Firm game, the decreased pressure on Scottish Premiership results now means that this is the perfect chance for Beale to start McCrorie and decide whether or not he could be our number one next season.
It would make more sense than the dim-witted views of the not-too-distant-past that both McGregor, 41, and McLaughlin, 35, can rotate in the number one spot.
Of all the goalkeepers at Ibrox to take a chance on, it’s McCrorie.
And if he doesn’t get the chance to play against Aberdeen on Sunday, then he should hand in a transfer request and quit the Gers for good because clearly, it’s of no benefit to anyone to have him sticking around.
McCrorie would no doubt get starts for a Scottish Premiership side outside of the Old Firm so at the age of 25, he needs to enter self-preservation mode and see if he can get those caps for Scotland and see if he can make a name for himself elsewhere.
We hope McCrorie does start against Aberdeen but it wouldn’t be a shock if Beale snubs him in favour of someone who looks set to retire or someone who really should retire.
In other Rangers news, Ally McCoist has shared his “penny-pinching” verdict on a player reportedly agreeing to quit Ibrox.