Ja, he was playing for Benfica's B team. Had been on loan at Huddersfield briefly the season before. When he joined us he showed great technical skills but was a bit spindly. Built up considerably under Warburtons coaching team and become both technical, tough and hard to get off the ball, and played brilliantly last season before having his hamstring ripped off his leg. Started this season scoring a string of great goals before getting another injury and hasn't looked fully fit since coming back. Blimey Cameroon have scored twice to pull it back to 3-3 while I wrote this.
I am gob-smacked that Beale has decided to leave just five weeks (and four defeats) after saying this about turning Wolves down: “Integrity is a real big thing for me, and loyalty. You don’t give it to receive it back but I think if they’re the values you live by then at times when you’re put in a position then you have to be strong by them. I have been all-in here and I have asked other people to be all-in so I can’t be the first person to run away from the ship.” I actually would have understood him going to Wolves - Premier League jobs don't come round that often, and like Potter to Chelsea, as a manager you need to take them when your stock's high. Because lose 4 in a row and people start calling for your head. So I was full of admiration for him for saying the above. At last, some integrity in football! So to about-turn on it a few weeks later marks him out as morally bankrupt, a brazen charlatan, a liar and an absolute arse of a human being. How can he now expect any player to have respect for him or to take him at his word? Well done mate, you've just announced yourself as a slippery, untrustworthy, two-faced berk. I liked Beale. I liked the way he talked, his honesty, his passion. He spoke a lot of sense. But to walk out now (and I don't care if it is for his childhood club or whatever) after saying everything he said just a few weeks ago makes him a laughing stock and an embarrassment. How can anyone at Rangers take him seriously? Good riddance to the p*ss-taker. We're well shot of him.
Can’t say I’m gobsmacked SS - football sucks on a professional/integrity level. Beale will always be slaughtered with his ‘integrity’ statement and disappearing at GR’s first call. He could have just as easily said, I’d love the job, but I need to be more experienced for GR to get the best of me when they need me. Seems now he’s a target for every disloyalty example in football, has a board where only half of them wanted him, fans split on him, media always ready to shoot him down and some players who will probably not trust him now. I actually thought he was a new breed when he turned down Wolves. Felt some pride we had a decent manager who was prepared to earn his stripes and not dash for the cash. Always knew, of course, that success would one day lure him away to a decent PL club (or incredibly make it there with us for a while and leave us with a succession plan to keep moving on as a club that showed support for him). I didn’t like SLF’s statement that the club wouldn’t stand in his way - unnecessary to say in public. I think he’s made some very bad calls. We gave him a real good opportunity, and no matter what you say about us being a stepping stone club, he shafted us in very poor style with very little integrity as it transpires. Let the club down. Let the players down. Let the employees down. Let the fans down. Let himself down. Don’t really care if he succeeds or not. He’s gone. Fu€K him. Let’s move on. Looking forwards now to us finding a decent manager with at least some measure of integrity in him and actually walks the talk.
Absolutely agree. They could have made Beale squirm by saying something like, "Our manager has already spoken admirably about integrity and loyalty so we don't envisage him wanting to talk to any other clubs this season"
Went to the Cov away game. Great stadium, loud fans and a team that made us look pedestrian. Why would he come to QPR except for the cash?