Rangers coach Michael Beale has admitted that “at some stage” he wants to become a manager – as well as head up a club’s Academy – but insists he’s “extremely happy” at Ibrox just now after helping Steven Gerrard’s side win their first league title in a decade.
Beale had stints with Liverpool, Chelsea and Sao Paulo in Brazil before moving to Ibrox as part of Gerrard’s coaching staff, playing a vital role alongside Gary McAllister, Tom Culshaw, Colin Stewart and the rest of the Gers’ backroom team.
While Beale confessed that he wants to manage in his own right in the future, the 40-year-old is adamant he isn’t looking too far ahead as he helps prepare Rangers for a return to the Champions League.
“At some stage, I’ll need to challenge myself by standing on my own two feet as a manager in my own right,” he told the Gold Dust podcast.
“And outside of the UK because that’s a dream. And at some stage, I want to return to youth and be the head of an academy.
“But at the moment, I’m extremely happy and you can’t look too far ahead.”
‘A sense of pride’
After helping the Light Blues go unbeaten across the entire league season as they romped to the title and smashed several records along the way, Beale has a ‘sense of pride and of fulfilment’ following the historic campaign.
The title win ends what Rangers fans had come to know as ‘The Journey’ after the club was booted into the fourth tier of Scottish football and had to climb their way back to the summit.
With fans having had to watch from home this season as a result of Covid restrictions, Beale insists the title triumphwas for those supporters who have had to look on from the outside.
“I have a huge sense of achievement and pride of being part of something that brings happiness to a lot of people,” he added. “That’s what this season was about.
“Ten years ago Rangers went down to the fourth division. Winning this 55th title was almost like the final step of being back to being Rangers.
“For me, it was a deeply personal season in that respect. To win a league unbeaten across 38 games and to have 26 clean sheets in those games, we broke a lot of club, Scottish and European records over the season so there’s a sense of pride and of fulfilment.
“I work for this club and I want to do well for this club but there are people whose families have been fans for generations and that’s where the sense of fulfilment comes in – it’s for those people outside of us players and coaches.”
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