Rather than counting up xG and all the rest of it, the only calculations the Rangers board should be obsessing over are the severance fees for Beale and his staff and the future bill for finding a proper, experienced manager — and maybe a new director of football — to…
After scouring the globe Beale turned to Italy to sign two strikers freshly relegated from Serie A. Sam Lammers and Cyriel Dessers had their journeyman careers hyped beyond belief but when the talking stopped they have misfired.
By this time next week Ferguson and the other bears will have a good idea whether this summer’s Revolution is the real thing or about to go the same way as last summer’s imaginative signing policy undertaken by Giovanni van Bronckhorst.