Michael Beale responds to lost Rangers transfer millions criticism as he tells fans they won more than they lost

On Wednesday, Rangers will wave goodbye to millions in potential lost revenue.

But instead of cursing missed opportunities to cash in, Michael Beale would prefer the Ibrox faithful to spend their final night at Ibrox with their departing stars welcoming the service they’ve offered. The last home game of the season against Hearts will see Alfredo Morelos, Ryan Kent, Allan McGregor, Filip Helander and Scott Arfield take a curtain call in front of their adoring public after it was confirmed the big-earning quintet’s time in Glasgow is up.

Heroes of the club’s Invincible title-winning campaign, they can each claim to have made a major contribution to Rangers’ history. But in Morelos – the club’s top European scorer – and £7million man Kent’s case, the fact they are about to ride off into the sunset without a single penny being tossed into the club coffers will still frustrate a good many supporters.

There was a time Ibrox chiefs would’ve been rubbing their hands in anticipation of the riches they expected to make from selling the pair on. But Beale, quizzed on the failure to secure a return on the huge investment in Kent when he signed permanently from Liverpool in 2019, said: “You have got to have an offer and the boy has got to want to go.

“You’re not going to push anyone out the door. It’s all right to say we should have taken this or that but in that time I don’t know if people would have traded a title, a European final or a Scottish Cup.

“If you look at it and put those two players together and say they cost Rangers what they did then they have made fantastic contributions to the club. If you look at recent individual cases, Calvin Bassey for 230 grand, Joe Aribo for 200 grand, Nathan Patterson out of the academy.