Rangers' contract stance 'doesn't have to make sense to everyone' as one player told to watch discipline

Rangers manager Michael Beale gestures to his players during the 3-1 win over Kilmarnock.

Ryan Kent and Alfredo Morelos are among those coming to the end of their current deals this summer with Beale maintaining that the fact a new offer has not been tabled to them from Rangers is irrelevant. “It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone other than ourselves,” said Beale in the wake of the 3-1 win over Kilmarnock at Ibrox. “I’ve been delighted with Alfredo and Ryan. Nobody has given me a problem regardless of their status or where they are contract wise.

“They’ll have options in the summer. I just want to see where the squad is and where it’s going. I’m trying to give stability with some of the old things. We’ve had a lot of injuries, stabilised it, lost one in 16 and one in 18 for the team. But you’re going to see a change in in the way we play and the formation the team play. We just need to get to that moment. In terms of those guys I want them to focus on football. I’ve had personal chats but there’s nothing in front of anyone because we want to see how things move.”

Beale, meanwhile, has warned midfielder Ryan Jack that he needs to be careful with his discipline. “Ryan just has to be careful around those yellow cards because he always makes my heart skip,” he said.

And the Ibrox manager, while effusive about the first half display, was scathing at the errors which characterised the opening to the second as Kilmarnock tried to force a way back into a game that had looked dead and buried. “When the second half starts, that’s the worst we’ve had in our time,” Beale added. “They have to talk to each other. They can’t always hear me. But it wasn’t just one player, we were giving away the ball unopposed. We’ll talk about it in the week but after the last few days I’ll take the first half. It was a tough week and now we all have to move forwards with another game on Wednesday.”