Michael Beale has vowed his new look Rangers side will go out all guns blazing to get to the Champions League – to bury last season’s Euro blues.
The Ibrox boss landed the job after Gio van Bronckhorst suffered a wretched run on the continent where his Gers became the worse side in group stage history on the back of painful drubbings by Liverpool, Napoli and Ajax. Embarrassments on the big stage eventually piled more pressure on the Dutchman and he was eventually bulleted in October.
Beale came in and he believes the major feat of knocking out PSV Eindhoven the in the play-offs to get to the groups was lost in the wash. And he admitted getting back to the big time has been the huge motivation for his early summer recruitment drive that’s seen six new stars pitch up at Ibrox – with another one on the way. Jose Cifuentes is expected to complete his move to Glasgow in the next week after thrashing out a fee with MLS side Los Angeles FC of around £1.2m.
