McLeish predicts Beale could quit Rangers amid BBC update
Alex McLeish has suggested Rangers coach Michael Beale may be tempted to leave Ibrox to pursue a manager’s job amid links to Cardiff City.
Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, the former Gers boss claimed the 41-year-old would have aspirations of becoming the “number one” at some stage of his career.
As reported by BBC Sport (26th October), Beale is a candidate to take charge at Cardiff after Mick McCarthy’s departure.
The former Wolves and Sunderland boss left the Welsh outfit by mutual agreement after the 2-0 defeat to Middlesbrough.
The Bluebirds currently sit 21st in the Championship table.
Beale followed Steven Gerrard from Liverpool to Rangers back in 2018.
McLeish suggested the Gers coach would be thinking about “spreading his wings” at some point.
“I know Steve’s got Gary McAllister as his right-hand man and Beale is his head coach,” McLeish told Football Insider’s Russell Edge.
“He obviously thinks massively about Beale. There has been a new trend over the last few years of coaches, assistant coach or a coach in another position at the club, wanting to spread their wings to go and get the number one job.
“We’ve seen so many coaches over the last few years now coming through and being spectacularly good. That is probably something in Beale’s head.
“Someday he’s probably going to say to Stevie: ‘I want to try myself. I want to do a thing myself.’
“We’ve seen some great young managers progress to great levels. Graham Potter, guys like that, Klopp came through like a coach. It’s different from the managerial times.
“We all go through the coaching course, we were just called something different in those days. For all intents and purposes, you were the head of the coaching.
“You’d have assistants, you would sit down, you’d discuss tactics, training sessions. They would all be from the head of the operation which is the manager.”
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