For someone who is part of the highly valued wabbit wabbit community, Mr Beale usually keeps to the Blue Room script.
However, he might have slipped up slightly last night in the post-match presser.
“I’d say you just need to be patient until after the weekend and not listen to the size of the fee or the size of the salary…I can tell you it’s nowhere near the size of both. But if you stay patient, then I’m hoping there’ll be some good news at the start of next week for everybody. “
The putative fee and personal terms for Danilo were meant to reassure the supporters that the club must be in funds.
As my recent reporting has stated, the instalments issue indicates the exact opposite.
For the avoidance of doubt, a crucial part of Operation Soothe is that the brethren in the Blue Room are minted.
This is a hangover from the Murray years when a financially doped Rangers could steamroller the opposition.
I’ve styled it here as the “Laudrup Nineties”.
The financial crash of 2008 was the hinge factor for that credit-fuelled strategy.
By then, the Ibrox club had to contend with a city rival that could generate more money from season ticket sales and match day income.
It was the decade of EBTs.
Dear reader, you also know how that one ended.
Yet the sugar daddy craving lingered.
The idea of a very wealthy man bankrolling the supremacist dreams on the Ibrox klanbase made them so vulnerable to the fantasy about Craig Whyte when the Daily Radar announced him as a billionaire.
There wasn’t any evidence of great wealth, but they wanted and needed to believe it.
You know how that one ended.
Meanwhile, across the city, there is no need for such pretence.
Just saying.
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Cyril Dessers averages 1 goal every 2 1/2 games.
Sam Lammers averages 1 goal every 3 1/2 games.
Kieran Dowell averages 1 goal every 6 games.
Abdaliah Sima averages 1 goal every 4 games.
Maybe they were only kidding up until now. Maybe they didn’t want to price themselves out of the range of the only club they ever wanted to play for.
I see the penalties are up and running already.
Beale’s signings so far.
Cyril Desser, 6’1″. 9 clubs in 10 years.
Sam Lammers, 6’3″. 8 clubs in 8 years.
Dijon Sterling, 6’1″. 6 clubs in 6 years.
Kieran Dowell,6’1. 7 clubs in 7 years.
Abdaliah Sima, 6’2″. 5 clubs in 3 years.
Jack Butland, 6’5″. 10 clubs in 13 years.
Now maybe I’m just an old cynic, but could this season’s tactic possibly be, lump the ball into the box, to one of these world class strikers, who have all finally reached the only club they ever wanted to play for, and have Tavernier score from the resultant VAR penalty?.
In the picture at the top of this article, Beaton looks as if he’s about to explode.
Regardless of what The Rangers pay for players they still will need to be beaten by us on the pitch.
We need to be ready for the media, and refereeing onslaught.
It’s like Groundhog Day with the 2012 born club, same old we are getting billions for our “stars” and we are reinvesting billions back into our new fabulous amazing award winning squad. Poor Mr Beale looks already under serious pressure. £5 million for Kamara 🤣 and wee fatty still not got a club. Back too the Rangers I think and they shall claim they had a sign on clause that the SPFL shall have to pay, prob £50 million, for Rangers bringing him back to Scottish football!!!
I see that Sakala has turned down mega money move to the Arabs to remain at it Orcville. All this nonsense without a bid anywhere on the horizon. It’s just like the Chubby Chap’s China scenario all over again.
He might have had a better chance of winning something at Dundee United… 😉
Can you hear that noise…?
That’s the – metaphorical – knives being sharpened in the
Blue Room.
IF Beale can’t get his jumble of players – who were woeful
against Olympiacos – into the CL Group Stage,
then Beale will no longer be the Coaching Messiah
at Ibrox: he’ll be the enemy! 🙂
Watched the latest Sevco recruits last night for a laugh. From Bealeball to freefall in 90 minutes.