It’s a short flight to Germany but Michael Beale will have been sitting comfortably at the front of the plane thinking about the guys in the rows behind him.
The Rangers manager will be flying with six new faces on board by this stage in pre-season – especially with the latest being one of their biggest targets. There was a lot of talk about Cyriel Dessers in the last few weeks and there were times it looked like Cremonese might’ve priced him out of the market. But Rangers managed to get the deal over the line at last and I’m sure Beale is absolutely delighted.
Dessers is clearly a striker he’s had his eye on for a long time. It’s a player who was flagged up back when Steven Gerrard was in charge, and I suspect a few of the new recruits are in the same boat. He’s finally got his man and it looks an encouraging signing. I said at the end of the season the big priority was sorting out both ends of the pitch – the goalkeeper and striker.
