At the age of 22 Lagerbiekle has played a key role in getting his side into top spot with his manager coy about talks with Celtic.
Beale doesn’t think that anything is wrong, he saw the template last season and is watching outstanding performances in training every day.
Beale has a tendency to say far too much in front of the media, speaking today ahead of facing Servette he revealed that around £10m needs to be raised from sales over the remaining 23 days of the transfer window.
That seems mainly based on a few suspect displays towards the end of last season but the absence of Cameron Carter-Vickers had a destabilising effect on the entire Celtic defence.
Beale and the Ibrox PR team are constantly tracking social media with much of the club’s policies formed from the most extreme views on forums and fan sites.
Recruiting players that are superior to the current squad while staying within a realistic salary range is proving to be the difficult part with the SPFL far from the most attractive of leagues for players to move to.
In contrast Beale has had nine months to prepare for the start of this season, he has had Todd Cantwell and Nico Raskin under his wing since January boosted by NINE summer signings all done and dusted in time for the SPFL opener.
Since that December visit Aberdeen are much changed, sending out a team to contain Celtic worked for 87 minutes but was the beginning of the end for Jim Goodwin.
Beale must have thought that he could do nothing wrong but then came Kilmarnock- playing in front of an audience that was banking on a treble at least.
After club media duties and an interview with SkySports at Kilmarnock, Tavernier was put in front of the other media partners yesterday to big up Wednesday’s match against Servette