Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v Rangers - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - April 8, 2023 Rangers manager Michael Beale during an interview before the match REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Eleven days before the Scottish Cup semi-final against Celtic Micky Beale has admitted that his current squad aren’t good enough to challenge Ange Postecoglou’s side.
After ditching QPR in November Beale arrived at Ibrox saying that the squad wasn’t broken, highlighting how he was working with the Europa League finalists from six months earlier.
Three months before the former Liverpool u-5s coaching co-ordinator moved to Ibrox the squad he inherited had beaten PSV Eindhoven over two legs to qualify for the Champions League, in January Nico Raskin and Todd Cantwell were added to the squad.
? Rangers boss Michael Beale says they’re ‘four or five’ signings away from challenging Celtic as he opens up on transfer talks with potential summer recruits.https://t.co/iXDnQZQ0hw
— Clyde 1 Superscoreboard (@ClydeSSB) April 19, 2023
This group has given me what they can and we’re probably four or five players away from being where I want us to be. That’s nothing against the players that are playing just now, it will just make us stronger.
So far Beale has been unable to convince any of seven out of contract first team players to sign up to a new contract.
Joe, last paragraph: is it “unable” or unwilling? Who TF would want any of them?
Without the MIB we’d have sewn up the most important thing, The Title to add to our honestly earned League Cup. Hopefully the SC makes for another treble.
HH and COYBIG