The Sun has started reporting on the odds over who will succeed Micky Beale at Ibrox.
Four matches into the SPFL season it is now being openly speculated on over who will take over from the under fire Ibrox boss.
Typical of a club that doesn’t have a solitary idea of their own it seems like they will try to take the Australian route that Celtic went down two seasons ago.
Kevin Muscat has worked closely with Ange Postecoglou throughout his coaching career and took over at Yokohama F Marinos when his mentor left for Celtic in June 2021.
Beale has barely had time to enjoy the last crumbs of birfday cake and read out his birfday cards than others are jostling to take his job at Ibrox.
Four defeats to Celtic in three competitions covering three stadiums has been too much for Ibrox fans to come to terms with, in recent years the Ibrox boardroom simply cave in to whatever is proving popular on Social Media.
The Sun reports:
Now that talk has swivelled from giving the manager time to his position and whether he could be sacked, some shock contenders are in the running to replace him.
SportsLens have compiled a list of candidates to succeed Beale in the Ibrox dugout, with former Rangers defender Kevin Muscat at the head of the betting.
Muscat, who won the Treble as a player with the Light Blues in 2002/03, has had a strong start to his managerial career.
He won two domestic championships with Melbourne Victory in his homeland and has now followed in the footsteps of none other than former Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou by taking up post at Yokohama F. Marinos in Japan, leading them to the 2022 league title.
Sandwiched in between was a short stint with Belgian club Sint-Truiden where he struggled.
Muscat, 50, who won 52 caps for Australia, is listed at 7/2 to take over from Beale.
Former Leeds, Red Bull Salzburg and RB Leipzig head coach Jesse Marsch, who at one point was mooted as a potential next Celtic manager, is second in the running at 7/1.
He leads a number of former Premier League managers who feature among the runners including Ralph Hassenhuttl (8/1), Marcelo Bielsa (10/1) and Graham Potter (14/1).
Kjetil Knutsen, another name linked with the Celtic manager’s job and who has won plaudits for his style of play with Bodo/Glimt, is also prominent in the betting at 9/1. Ibrox cult hero Rino Gattuso is high in the market at 12/1.
After the way that he ditched QPR in mid-season Beale will struggle to find a club in England which could leave him jostling with Kenny Miller, Neil McCann and Lee McCulloch for slots on BBC Scotland discussing the Ibrox banter with Kenny Macintyre.
Not even a year ago that paper was running stories on how Beale was nailed on to be the next England manager and could lead them to World Cup glory
Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please,pretty please gonny give the job to McInnes ! I’ll do yard work for you in the middle of Winter if he gets the job …. Did I say please ?
I get it!
Sevco, Celtic, Ange, Australia, Muscat, Deputy Dawg!
“Hold On There Musky”.
“What Happened, What Happened?”
They’ll be desperate for to get their hands on the millions we got for our Australia tour that they bailed outta due to satisfying their Hun Hoards…
I doubt Australia would touch them with a barge pole – well if they’ve any sense they won’t for sure !
I don’t think they would know how to get there.
Sad, really!
You would think if Beale was going to get punted, it would have happened by now?
He – just – might get a tune out of his squad eventually.
There’s money coming from the EL, and sevco is obviously favourite to lift the League Cup.
…and Bennett won’t want the added expenses of replacing Beale too soon…?
Maybe the deciding factor will become clear soon enough:
has the ‘tunnel scurrier’ lost the dressing room?
What goes around comes around and now that snidey prick looks to be on the receiving end, and deserves every bit of it currently.
Anyway, how could the scum afford change in the dugout when the price of failure remains so high?
No CL money to help fund this so called rebuild.
Add in the increased wage bill, which the scum struggled to pay last season, and that’s with CL money?
Don’t forget the player trading model that only bought in shirt buttons for what the scum were looking for and dependent upon?
Financially there’s a great chance there actually far worse off than last season, with the printers on standby for yet more confetti to be released soon enough, I would expect.
So overall the moleman has done a fantastic job for the scum, and believe he should have been offered a new contract to open alongside his birthday cards
I am sniggering at all these ex-EPL managers getting linked to the job…. clearly this article has come from the English edition where they know so little about the football scene up in jockoland that they assume Sevco can pay a manager wages to compete with lower level EPL or higher level Championship clubs…. they can’t, that’s why keep giving the job to rookies, unemployed managers, speculative punts and of course, Graham Murty.
Dream on, they’ll end up with Martinjail.
No one in their right mind would go there to manage in a hate-filled cauldron.
So that leaves Gattuso and McInnes out of those mentioned. I don’t think McInness is that stupid. However, who cares!
Oh no, don’t replace Beale, anyone would be an improvement.
Ah BBC Scotland with their TV and radio stations studios resembling and taking on a FUNERAL PARLOUR theme since sevco’s ERUPTION on Sunday.