Michael Beale faces Rangers accusations of 'verbal diarrhea' as pundit names the Ibrox buzzword Clement is avoiding

Michael Beale has been accused of serving up a word salad that was hard to understand - as Philippe Clement's alternative Rangers approach wins praise.

The Belgian is turning heads in his opening run of matches as Ibrox, and he is six unbeaten ahead of facing Livingston at Almondvale on Sunday. Michael Beale was handed his jotters after a 3-1 defeat at home to Aberdeen ended a tenure that lasted less than a year, but the Londoner made plenty of headlines with his fighting talk and Celtic references.

Clement has almost exclusively kept all focus on his players and on the next game, with pundit Rory Loy insisting that it's a change after Beale's Rangers words failed to hit the right notes. He told the BBC: "We spoke about Steven Naismith earlier and Tom (English) touched on a few of the things he said to the media he thought were slightly naive.

"Michael Beale was extremely bad for it. He had verbal diarrhea at times. Steven MacLean's has been spoken about recently, did his interviews help him, did they not help him? That is one of the advantages of hiring an experienced coach, they know how to handle the media."

Fellow pundit Pat Nevin echoed Loy's sentiments, and insisted there's a particular buzzword experienced bosses like Clement avoid. He added: "You've got an outsiders problem when you come into somewhere like Celtic or Rangers.

"See if you don't get it or understand the importance of it... it's drummed into you right away 'we have to win very game, every defeat is a nightmare, you have to say you are as good as Celtic if you are Rangers or Rangers if you are Celtic.' You have to do that, you have to keep on going.

"That means you then start talking nonsense. Everyone goes you are not as good as them and you ae