Michael Beale's "verbal diarrhoea" at Rangers has been held up as an "extremely bad" fault of the former Ibrox manager, by BBC pundit Rory Loy.

The one-time Gers forward followed up an argument made by BBC journalist Tom English, suggesting that Hearts boss Steven Naismith's comments to the media have been "naive", to highlight how much of an issue the now-sacked Beale had with saying the wrong things, with St Johnstone's Steven MacLean also called into question.

Since Philippe Clement took over the Light Blues he has been praised for his more business-like attitude amid a major upturn in results by the likes of Andy Walker.

Loy said, via the Scottish Sun (12 November): "We spoke about Steven Naismith earlier and Tom 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."

Beale's undoing

While it was ultimately a failure to get the better of Celtic when it mattered, and a hugely disappointing summer transfer overhaul, that did for Beale at Ibrox he certainly didn't help himself in the media.

His propensity to talk himself and the team up only to deliver less than he'd promised, and a willingness to get sidetracked with press soundbites such as in his dispute with Chris Sutton ahead of last season's Viaplay Cup final, raised the stakes unnecessarily.

Few would have argued if he had backed up his talk with a dominant team on the pitch but too often he came unstuck in the biggest games.

Once that trend spread to supposedly smaller games which Rangers were always expected to win there was only going to be one outcome, not least because the side he had remade in his image appeared worse than last season's.

Other managers would probably be wise to take heed of Beale's time in Glasgow if they want to avoid undercutting themselves, even if it appears some haven't done so.

Clement has already got far more out of this group of players than his predecessor did, and while he is far from reserved with his public comments he does at least seem to know when to keep his mouth shut.

In other Rangers news, Michael Stewart has called for one Gers regular to be dropped with a leading alternative available to come in.

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