I am gob-smacked that Beale has decided to leave just five weeks (and four defeats) after saying this about turning Wolves down:
“Integrity is a real big thing for me, and loyalty. You don’t give it to receive it back but I think if they’re the values you live by then at times when you’re put in a position then you have to be strong by them. I have been all-in here and I have asked other people to be all-in so I can’t be the first person to run away from the ship.”
I actually would have understood him going to Wolves - Premier League jobs don't come round that often, and like Potter to Chelsea, as a manager you need to take them when your stock's high. Because lose 4 in a row and people start calling for your head. So I was full of admiration for him for saying the above. At last, some integrity in football! So to about-turn on it a few weeks later marks him out as morally bankrupt, a brazen charlatan, a liar and an absolute arse of a human being. How can he now expect any player to have respect for him or to take him at his word? Well done mate, you've just announced yourself as a slippery, untrustworthy, two-faced berk.
I liked Beale. I liked the way he talked, his honesty, his passion. He spoke a lot of sense. But to walk out now (and I don't care if it is for his childhood club or whatever) after saying everything he said just a few weeks ago makes him a laughing stock and an embarrassment. How can anyone at Rangers take him seriously?
Good riddance to the p*ss-taker. We're well shot of him.