Micky Beale set for £7m boost to transfer warchest

Craig Mulholland has revealed that Micky Beale is in line for a £7m transfer boost from the sale of Murray Park starlets!

The incredible sum comes on top of the apparent £15m that has been brought in by the sales of Nathan Patterson and Rory Wilson (google search).

Not even BBC Scotland or the Daily Record managed to stretch the Patterson moonbeam to £15m but that is the figure being fed to Ibrox fans through the ever friendly Glasgow Times.

The report seems to overlook the fact that add-ons are performance based or from subsequent transfer deals, there are no guarantees.

At the age of 21 Patterson has started 11 EPL matches for Everton to add to the five he started in the SPFL, mainly behind closed doors.

With Everton now onto their third manager since the arrival of the Murray Park starlet there must be serious doubts over any additional payments reaching Beale’s summer transfer war-chest.

Mulholland tells the Glasgow Times:

Since the Academy was remodelled in 2015, we have been asking the fans to buy into a vision which would see Rangers begin to develop exciting talent to play in a winning and successful Rangers team, also allowing us to commence a player trading model, to augment our income and keep Rangers winning.

We are now able to demonstrate some exciting outcomes from that vision. In the last five years we have brought in more than £15m in transfer fees for Academy players, with many additions, perhaps in excess of £7m, still to come on those deals.

Then there is the combined value of Adam Devine, Leon King, Alex Lowry and Robby McCrorie, all members of the current first-team squad, taking the total value generated from the Academy well beyond £20m.

With 10 graduates playing in the first-team last season, 8 playing already this season, Leon King achieving 19 appearances so far this season and becoming the U19 player with the most minutes in the Champions League, Adam’s important contribution while Borna was at the World Cup, and Alex’s recent start against Motherwell taking it to 14 games in a row where a recent Academy graduate has started – we can now be proud of the talent our club is producing.

Given their current potential, at ‘A’ squad and U21 international level, it is likely that Robby McCrorie, Nathan Patterson, Adam Devine, Leon King, Billy Gilmour, Alex Lowry and Rory Wilson could all become key and important players for their country, generating a sporting or financial return for Rangers, and all were developed from age eight or younger in our Academy here at Rangers.

That reads like a teenager discussing Football Manager with one of his pals.

It is hard to trace other Murray Park starlets elsewhere in the game, at Brighton Billy Gilmour has started two EPL matches and came off the bench five times this season.

After his disastrous experience in the Champions League King hasn’t played a minute of football for Beale, with Connor Goldson injured at the weekend on-loan Soccer Guy James Sands played in central defence.

Lowry has been the big hope for just over a year but the signings of Todd Cantwell and Nicolas Raskin suggests that Beale doesn’t buy into the hype with Ianis Hagi also now competing for a place in midfield.

McCrorie hasn’t played a competitive game of football in 18 months, watching Allan McGregor and Jon McLaughlin swapping places under Beale.