Andy Halliday shares three Michael Beale failures at Rangers already
Andy Halliday has listed the three key areas he believes Michael Beale has fallen short in a disappointing start to his first full campaign at Rangers.
Beale’s job is under threat after following up a heavy defeat to PSV in the Champions League play-offs last week with a 1-0 home league loss to fierce rivals Celtic.
Halliday, who made over 150 appearances for Rangers, believes the club got their recruitment wrong, particularly during the close season.
“The fact of the matter is, going into the season, the three big things for Michael Beale and Rangers were getting their recruitment right, nailing down their identity and their style of play, and getting their best XI on the pitch,” Halliday told Clyde 1 Superscoreboard [4 September, 24:20].
“I think right now, you’ve got to argue that all three they’ve sort of fallen short of. I do think they’ll improve, and individually I think they will improve in terms of the new signings.
“But again, going onto the recruitment, I’ve talked about the players leaving at the end of [last season] and things getting a bit stale and change was needed.
“Right now, if Rangers fans were offered Alfredo Morelos, Ryan Kent and Fashion Sakala, would they swap them for the front three now? I think they would.”
Pretty damning
Halliday has a point with regards to Rangers’ attack of last season being stronger than the options Beale currently has available to him.
After all, who would have predicted at the start of the campaign that Rabbi Matondo and Kemar Roofe would be starting the first Old Firm of the season?
That is not a slight on either player, who have both shown glimpses of quality, but it is pretty damning with regards to the Gers’ transfer business.
Beale has quite simply been unable to settle on a favoured line-up and looks no closer to doing so with nine games of the campaign played.
The new recruits quite simply have to step up when the Gers return to action after the international break, while Beale has to find an XI he is happy with for the big matches.
Otherwise, there is only so long the current situation can go on before the board decides enough is enough.
In other Rangers news, Beale has defended the Gers’ summer transfer business.