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Good luck to Michael Beale if he is indeed the new Rangers manager.

I only hope he’s got the assurances & guarantees he’ll need from the board and in particular our DoF and our supporters are patient with him and realise there’s no magic wand to sort things

15 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I think some input and final say is about right.

 

GvB himself said he was happy with the squad. 

 

And he accepted the job knowing full well our recruitment model. 

I don’t recall him saying he was happy with the squad but if he did he was badly mistaken.

And if he was happy with our recruitment model(where Wilson takes all the decisions?) then it is no surprise to me that the appointment of our next manager/head coach seems to be taking forever. No manager worth his salt would allow a DoF like Wilson to pick and choose his playing staff

6 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

There are, but these times aren't it. 

We could have beaten Liverpool & Napoli ? 

2 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

The defeatist 'we can't compete' stuff is unbecoming of a Rangers man. 

Sometimes you need to have a reality check unfortunately 

18 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

He should have some input.  

 

Any head coach - not the old 'manager' position - worth their salt should be able to get the most out of the players at their disposal. It's the modern game. 

I’d like to think he manager/head coach would have more than ‘some input’

1 hour ago, Rousseau said:

No, they are not, but I'm not expecting us to beat them, just put up a fight. We're more than capable. 

But there are times when you have to hold up ur hands and accept what you’ve got at ur disposal simply isn’t good enough for what ur up against as we found out

10 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

The DoF is in charge of recruitment. He should be judged on it.

 

A large section of our support has already judged him negatively, like yourself. I don't entirely disagree with you. 

 

Another section of the support believes that the manager (GvB) has failed to get the most out of the new signings. 

 

I lean towards the latter, but don't think you're wrong. In fact, both arguments can be true at the same time. 

 

Colak is a case in point: by all accounts a good signing, but I still don't think we've gotten the best out of him. His conversion rate is superb, but we provide him with very few chances in a game. 

 

I'm interested to see what a new manager gets out of them all.

Just seems to me(from what you’re saying) if the DoF screws it up then the manager on a hiding to nothing if he’s got little or no input to recruitment 

23 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Who said that?

Is it not what you’re suggesting? 
You said the DoF is in charge of recruiting.

if he signs duds whose fault is it?

I accept almost all clubs have a DoF/sporting director. Perhaps some better at their jobs than others 

1 hour ago, Rousseau said:

We pumped Dortmund and Liepzig, and took Frankfurt to a penalty shoot-out. All three are CL teams. 

 

We should be competing. 

 

That doesn't mean win - our group was very tough, but the capitulations were embarrassing. GvB is at fault. 

None of those three are in the same league as Liverpool & Napoli

36 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

GvB certainly failed in his...

 

We spent enough (approx. £12m), IMO,  and 90% of sides have a DoF in charge of recruitment. If he's not prepared for that, then GvB will never get another job.

So the DoF is in charge of recruitment but if the signings are duff it’s the manager’s fault? 😳

56 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

If so, tough. 

 

That's how we're run. It's much more important than the ego of a manager.

If thats how we’re run then we might as well chuck  it. Others (in addition to the manager) have their responsibilities too. 

1 hour ago, Rousseau said:

Our fitness, conditioning and medical department has been atrocious, which has led to injuries. Even the perma-crocks played more under SG than they have under GvB. (Soutar is the only new signing with a known injury record.) 

 

If we can reach a EL final, then we can certainly compete in the CL. That doesn't mean we win every game, merely put up a fight. Of course the team is good enough for that. Celtic got humilated in the EL and then the Conference, but they still put up a better fight than we did. 

There is a colossal gulf between the EL and the top teams in the CL

1 hour ago, Rousseau said:

What's he referring to?

Lack of investment in squad?

not having full control of recruitment?

‘some very difficult circumstances to operate in’

unless this is addressed then his successor will meet with the same fate as GvB. I think it’s obvious what he’s referring to 

13 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

For me, he was responsible for both of those. 

not sure the injuries were solely his fault. Signing players with known injury records was madness.

And I’m not sure our current first team squad was ever going to be good enough to compete in the CL group we were in

During the 1978 WC in Argentina black tape was tied around the bottom of the goalposts at all WC matches in recognition of the ‘political prisoners’ who’d disappeared since the military junta took control of the country a couple of years previously.

If you watch games from the 1978 WC you can see this 

It’ll be interesting to see what Michael Beale’s title will be. I suspect it might be Head Coach or something which would make sense.
The days when a club had a manager such as we had with Jock Wallace,John Greig, Souness etc are long gone where they controlled everything 

The DoF/ Sporting director role at most big clubs has been created to take away a lot off the previous non-football duties of the manager such as transfers, contracts etc allowing the head coach to focus on management of the first team squad and match tactics, game plans etc 

But the DoF/Sporting director needs to be able to work with the head coach on these matters. I’m not convinced that was the case with GvB & Ross Wilson . 

I had the misfortune to have to listen to SSB this afternoon when they were discussing Michael Beale and his imminent appointment as Rangers manager.

They were saying he was inexperienced & how would he handle transfers, contracts and everything else that goes with the job.

Much of that nowadays ( as I believe) is done by the DoF/Sporting director allowing the manager to focus on the squad and prepare them for the games, arranging tactics etc.

Beale should be fine with that. It’s our DoF I worry about and what his role has been in these last 2 transfer windows. My advice to Michael Beale would be to ensure he has full control of signings.

It will be interesting to see who will be in Beale’s coaching staff. 

5 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

Multiple outlets reporting we have contacted QPR matter of time now.

I’d have thought we’d have contacted QPR long before now. That suggests to me we’ve not interviewed Beale yet

15 minutes ago, Bill said:

CV’s don’t guarantee anything

Of course they don’t guarantee anything but they do give an idea of a candidate’s experience & suitability. 

The problem with appointing Beale is that there are clearly other candidates with much better CV’s. 

15 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

I'd like to know what really goes on behind the scenes with these appointments.  

 

Wishful thinking, I know but...

I’d like to be a fly on the wall at the interviews. Especially if it was Robertson & Wilson doing the interviews.

And any serious candidate who’d done any research on rangers at the last two transfer windows would have had plenty questions to ask

The problem with appointing Michael Beale is that we have(allegedly) interviewed candidates with better CV’s. Gerrard Seaonne for one.

4 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

If so then I would want Kevin Thomson as his assistant. From his podcast with English recently I took it to be his job application; he certainly is Rangers-minded.

I believe KT will be involved in Beale’s team. Tom Culshaw too.