Rangers Transfer Plans Unaffected by Wilson's Exit, Says Beale

Rangers manager Michael Beale confirmed the club’s summer transfer business is ready to proceed after sporting director Ross Wilson left his role at Ibrox to join Nottingham Forest.

Speaking in a video on Rangers’ official YouTube Channel, Beale played down Wilson’s exit, insisting the wheels were already in motion regarding recruitment and pre-season preparations during the sporting director’s time at the club.

“There’s meetings that have already been had. Pre-season and recruitment has very much been finalised and now it’s just ticking one or two boxes in some areas,” Beale said.

“Maybe some players that see their futures elsewhere, maybe we think that as well. But the main part of recruitment in terms of identifying players has already happened. Now it’s about executing those deals.”

While lauding the positive working dynamic he shared with Wilson, Beale asserted the club’s transfer plans were established irrespective of the sporting director’s input.

With a monumental Premiership title challenge ahead and a squad rebuild required, Rangers’ transfer business is critical to Beale’s ambitions.

“There’s so much at stake in the months ahead for Beale’s tenure at Ibrox,” he said.

Some Rangers players are poised to leave, contract decisions must be resolved, and quality recruits are needed at the right price. Wilson’s Ibrox exit is mutually beneficial, especially now.

Rangers Transfer Plans Unaffected by Wilson’s Exit, Says Beale

By Hikithe Achumi | Apr 13, 2023