The Return Of Michael Beale
There we have it, Rangers have a new manager. Michael Beale becomes the eighteenth permanent incumbent in the managers office at Ibrox. Personally I’m delighted to see the man return after just over a year. Beale left with Steven Gerrard and the rest of his background team, returning south to Birmingham and Aston Villa. Beale wasn’t at Villa for long. Having ignored or knocked-back several offers to become a manager in his own right, he left in the summer to take up the managers role at Queens Park Rangers in London. He did very well in the Championship, leaving QPR in a very respectable position. Having released twenty two players that weren’t required, he brought only six new players in yet leaves them in a healthily placed seventh top in an insanely tough league to get out of. He returns to Glasgow much heralded, highly sought after and renowned for being one of the finest coaches working in British football. The reason for the return of Michael Beale is of course well understood.