Michael Beale has plotted a pre-season to make Rangers robust for everything ahead.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s group had an injury crisis through the early months of last season. It caught up with them in the thick of their Champions League flop of the autumn. Central defence was the worst hit as John Souttar, Ben Davies and Connor Goldson were all unavailable for spells, in addition to Filip Helander’s continued troubles. Beale has taken his squad to a training camp in Germany to prepare for friendlies then the Euro qualifiers.
And several Ibrox stalwarts will already be familiar with the tough programme. Beale is putting them through a schedule similar to the one used regularly when he was a main man on Steven Gerrard’s staff. He said: “Pre-season is important. It sets you up for the season. It was the one thing, when I came back to the club, I was unaware of what had happened in pre-season because I wasn’t there.
