Rangers to make an approach for Beale

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I’m probably alone here, aside from some naivety in what he said post Wolves, I think he’s done little wrong.

Our current position in the league and where we have been this season, we could only have fantasised about.

We are rightly upset/angry he’s going because he’s been good for us.

For Mick, it’s a job and I suspect he has more than doubled his salary and has negotiated a contract that will pay him handsomely even if he fails at GR. He’s a young man and this deal could financially set him up for life.

I like Mick, I thought his post match chats were more honest than most. He avoided the usual generic whining about the officials and banal excuses that many managers spout after a bad 90 mins.

If anything, I’m just sorely disappointed, particularly after what was spouted about integrity after the Wolves approach.

Nonetheless, I wish Mick and GR success. The GR fans have had a shedload of 5hit mismanagement, (way over and beyond anything we have experienced) in the last decade, so I reckon it won’t hurt to see them stick it to the Celts for a season or two.

My view will change rapidly if Mick tries to poach our players, of course.
Like I said previously, if it was only about money then he would have taken the Wolves job, they would have offered him a lot more than Rangers could ever. It is his affiliation with Rangers that has swayed him, not money.
 
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Beale won’t last the season at Rangers. A heart over head decision. You need proper experience and he doesn’t have that.
Unfortunately this will derail his career. There’s always every chance he’ll drop you at the first opportunity if he does do well due to his lack of integrity.
Think that is slightly unfair, I get the impression that the Rangers job is one of the very few he would leave QPR for.
 
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I think he's been doing well so much as a lack of resources. The future looks grim though Os, let's hope Les make's the right appointment.

Don't think it would be that grim if Beale does go now. I think there are other potentially good Managers /Coaches out there. Critchley maybe one. I 'd have no problem with a Warburton return if he and Les are still talking to each other.....We also have Ramsey who could at the least fill in temporarily. It maybe more difficult to replace Balogun and / or Tim if Beale took them with him up there in January.
 
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Have to say I found it odd that Gerrard left Rangers for Villa (who really aren’t bigger than Wolves given the money behind them). He had a much better chance of enhancing his reputation in Glasgow.
 
Don't think it would be that grim if Beale does go now. I think there are other potentially good Managers /Coaches out there. Critchley maybe one. I 'd have no problem with a Warburton return if he and Les are still talking to each other.....We also have Ramsey who could at the least fill in temporarily. It maybe more difficult to replace Balogun and / or Tim if Beale took them with him up there in January.
Come on Oslo Warburton really?
 
Have to say I found it odd that Gerrard left Rangers for Villa (who really aren’t bigger than Wolves given the money behind them). He had a much better chance of enhancing his reputation in Glasgow.
Seemingly the board weren't backing Gerrard at Rangers and his wife wanted him nearer to the family etc. I am sure he is thinking he has made a huge mistake as how will he get the Liverpool job now?
 
My biggest concern is Les and team aren’t putting good enough safeguards in place to protect our best assets. £1.5m clause for Beale is not doing anyone any favours. In football that’s nothing. We have to learn and start putting silly figures against our assets and if people are that desperate, they’ll still pay up. All very naive as usual.
 
My biggest concern is Les and team aren’t putting good enough safeguards in place to protect our best assets. £1.5m clause for Beale is not doing anyone any favours. In football that’s nothing. We have to learn and start putting silly figures against our assets and if people are that desperate, they’ll still pay up. All very naive as usual.
Does anyone know how much Luton got from Southampton for Jones?
 
My biggest concern is Les and team aren’t putting good enough safeguards in place to protect our best assets. £1.5m clause for Beale is not doing anyone any favours. In football that’s nothing. We have to learn and start putting silly figures against our assets and if people are that desperate, they’ll still pay up. All very naive as usual.
Easy to say but someone as seemingly ambitious as Beale isn't going to join if you put an unrealistic buy out clause in his contract. Not that I know what a reasonable figure is.
 
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If Beale does leave, who do you reckon you will go after?
Ultimately it will come down who is willing to come in with little/no January transfer budget and the prospect of losing players in the January window also. So whilst we maybe linked with someone like Mckenna at Ipswich it will be someone who isn't presently in a job, guaranteed Dim Tim will be linked!
 
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My biggest concern is Les and team aren’t putting good enough safeguards in place to protect our best assets. £1.5m clause for Beale is not doing anyone any favours. In football that’s nothing. We have to learn and start putting silly figures against our assets and if people are that desperate, they’ll still pay up. All very naive as usual.
I think these clauses are, in reality, of little effect. No one wants a staff member who wants to be elsewhere. Particularly in football, it generates a toxic environment, can impact on the whole organisation. Best let someone go, irrespective of what they might be barred from so doing on a contractual basis.
 
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This does say £2.5m for Jones AND his assistants.
It would be little compensation if he took our back room staff as well. I’m not sure how true that is, but I would be particularly upset if a manager of a few months took back room staff who had been with us for years. Their prerogative of course, but would still grate.
Preserving any comments until we hear the final truth though.
 
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At the end of the day there is being loyal and being stupid. However loyal we are in our working life I am sure most people have a dream job, and if this was suddenly offered to you you would take it regardless of your loyalty to your present employer. This doesn't make you a bad person.
It just seems a lot worse after what he said after the Wolves thing, but he could hardly have said, "I can't be the first the leave the ship, well except if Rangers come in for me, I really loved being there and would love to go back".