Carry on McGregor! Beale’s gushing praise for error prone Ibrox veteran
Soccer Football - Champions League - Group A - Rangers v Liverpool - Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - October 12, 2022 General view of a big screen displaying the full time score after the match Action Images via Reuters/Russell Cheyne
Allan McGregor has been given a massive vote of confidence by Micky Beale.
The 40-year-old will be out of contract at the end of this season but is apparently a top professional and the best goalie in Scotland.
McGregor played in five of the six Champions League group matches that took the Ibrox club into the record books and is looking increasingly frail ahead of his 41st birthday at the end of this month.
A complete refusal to come outside of his six-yard box has made the Ibrox defence increasingly vulnerable but in his usual gushing manner Beale went overboard in an interview with the Daily Record:
Allan McGregor is the best goalie in Scotland. Me and Allan have got an unbelievable trust, built up over a long period of time. He knows that every now and then, I’m going to say to him, ‘OK Al, rest up this one and play this one’. But the majority of the time he’ll play.
In my opinion he is the No.1 goalkeeper in Scotland and I think we’re not far off from having that with the other couple that we have in the building.
I get when people say, ’Allan McGregor, you leave him out’, but he’s completely up to speed with everything that is going on. He’s a really mature man. He thinks about the whole club, the whole team, not just himself, and that’s why he’s been such a top professional.
It remains to be seen of Beale backs up his comments by getting the former Scotland keeper to sign a new bumper contract.