Official Rangers partner demands Michael Beale sack ‘tonight’ after Aberdeen defeat as manager ‘won’t quit’
Michael Beale “won’t quit” so the Rangers board “need to step up” and sack him after defeat to Aberdeen, according to Heart & Hand Podcast.
The official club partner reacted on Twitter to the 3-1 loss at Ibrox on 30 September, demanding the manager be removed, “and it has to be tonight”.
With the reasons laid bare in the same post the pressure looks unbearable for Beale, after three defeats from seven in the SPFL, failure to qualify for the Champions League, and with the Ibrox crowd making their feelings clear on multiple occasions.
Heart & Hand wrote: “3 losses in opening 7 league games, failed to get to CL, 7 points behind by end of September, booed off three home league matches in a row.
“He has to go and it has to be tonight. He won’t quit so board need to step up.”
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It is now virtually impossible to see how Beale gets through the storm, with huge questions being asked even as he was cobbling together a winning run.
Defeat, at home, playing badly, and to fall seven points behind Celtic in the league before October, is a pretty damning situation.
Beale can rightly point towards the difficulty of bringing together a unit that heavily made up of completely new players, and to a rapidly growing injury crisis, but they were the players he wanted and he hasn’t got a tune out of them yet.
He knew he didn’t have any leeway coming out of the summer, having essentially used it all up last season by failing to lay much of a glove on Celtic to end the season without a trophy.
He had to hit the ground running this term but stumbled at the very first hurdle by losing to Kilmarnock, and then followed that up with European disappointment and yet another Old Firm flop.
In terms of results it needed to be perfect through to the next derby at the end of the year, and he surely had to lift the Viaplay Cup along the way, but with performances drawing the fans’ fury anyway he has now failed to keep the gap to the top as it was.
It would be a shock if there wasn’t now a third managerial change in three years as Rangers look set to fall further into an unwanted cycle.
In other Rangers news, Chris Sutton has heaped further pressure on top of Beale in his reaction to Aberdeen’s win.