THE last two seasons have seen a number of players within the Rangers squad improve their own game significantly in many different aspects.
Right through the team from back to front, players have kicked-on and have shown a consistent level of betterment – and first-team coach Michael Beale has been outlining to RangersTV some of the reasons behind the betterment.
Beale and the rest of the coaching staff must take most of the credit, but he also pointed to everything that comes with being a Rangers player as being a real driver behind the players putting the hard graft in.
"I think also, when you are playing at a club the size of Rangers and have to win every game when the expectations are so high - we have 50,000 at every home game - there are very few teams in Europe or world football that have that.
"So the demands every single day push your standards on, as do the players you train with and also, we have a staff that know we're not bringing players in that are the finished article, so the players' energy and desire to improve, plus the staff combined is quite a nice mix."
Already this summer, Gers have added Ianis Hagi, Jon McLaughlin and Calvin Bassey to the first-team pool.
at the Rangers Training Centre on Friday, and Beale believes he can bring so much to the first-team squad.
He continued: "Calvin can bring a lot. He is a young man and we don't want to put too much expectation on him too soon.
"So he gives us a lot of versatility in an area where we have needed to strengthen over the last two years.
"Our full-backs gave us 35/36 assists last season, so it is important we have people behind the main players pushing them, and Calvin is more than capable of playing.
On top of his work at Rangers, Beale is a very keen watcher of football right around the world.
He’s studied how clubs have coped with playing in front of empty stands – and while he’s delighted to see the game back, he reckons it won’t be fully the same until clubs are back playing in front of full houses once again.
He added: "Firstly, I watched the Bundesliga like everybody else and I thought there were a lack of tackles and a lack of shots and crosses.
"Whether that's the emotion of the crowd - for me, football is about fans. It's an entertainment business and we are here to entertain the fans and make our supporters happy, and I think without fans, football won't survive.
"I don't think football is, long-term, sustainable as a product without fans. I think the fans are what make football clubs - football clubs are made like when your dad takes you to the game for the first time and you have that passion and falling in love with your club and following them through thick and thin, and near and far.
"I think that's what football is all about, so it is very encouraging to hear the news and see around Europe that fans are starting to go back in slowly, but I have to emphasise, when it is safe to do so.
"So it has been nice to have football back on TV, but for me, it won't feel 100 per-cent real until we start seeing our fans back at Ibrox."
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