Michael Beale has hinted at his vision for what he wants his Rangers team to look like over the course of the next five years.

Excitingly for Gers fans, Ryan Kent is very much part of his plans.

In a near hour-long sit down with RangersTV, the manager addressed various topics, as he reflected on his time as No.1 so far. 

It was here that he referenced a billboard analogy, pointing to his players as the club's actors in their season. 

He outlined some of the team's more attacking, flair players as those he wants to have involved moving forward.

Of course, Kent is out of contract at the end of this season, alongside Alfredo Morelos. 

But Beale has namedropped the winger as a potential main character in his future Rangers blockbuster.

He said: “I think if there was a big billboard outside of Ibrox saying ‘what does this Rangers team look like?’, you can only play the way those players allow you to play.

“Our team has always to go be a team that has a lot of relationships on the pitch. It’s got to have a lot of combination player, you’ve got to give them some freedom. When I think of this team, I’m saying now that you have Ryan Kent, Raskin, Tom Lawrence, Todd Cantwell or whoever you want to put on this billboard in terms of that’s the Rangers that’s going to be here for the next four or five years.

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“How are they going to play? What’s the best way to get the best out of them? There’s got to be a big feeling out there on the pitch.

“I’d like us to play vertical a little bit more, and I don’t mean being direct. When we played Hearts I think you saw it for what I want it to be. I want us to have elements of surprise and I want us to have competition in the squad.

“We’re not able to go and spend a lot of money so we have to spend our money cleverly and we have to have a real feeling in the changing room.

“For the 60 game plus that we have to play every year, we need two for every position and we need three in the number nine position. Where do you get that competition? In our squad at the moment we have that competition in the front six positions but probably not so much in the back end due to injuries.

“I would certainly like us to run forward and break the lines more. If I’m looking at football at the moment and the best teams, certainly having worked in the Premier League, it’s the speed which is something that catches you out. Maybe in the Champions League we saw that first hand as well.

“There’s a view for the way I want us to go. The billboard thing I think is interesting because in our Rangers movie if you like – the season – they are our actors, the players. So you have to find a recipe for them. As a manager, you have your ideas, the club and the players. You just have to blend the three as much as you can.

“I’ve seen it in moments. I thought the game here against Celtic in the second half we saw it and we saw it at Hearts for a whole 90 minutes.”

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Emma Dodds then asked Beale if implementing his desired philosphy was a harder task in Scottish football due to the defensive nature of the vast majority of teams. 

The Englishman elaborated: "It’s hard to win a game with 70 per cent possession. That’s the hardest thing. Even teams that spend hundreds of millions on players find that difficult.

“The two games that I just mentioned were two games where we had less possession. That meant we invited the other team to play more, we gave us more spaces. You’re always looking for that connection and balance.

“For me it’s more about can I help certain players get the ball to certain areas of the pitch and then allowing these players and their relationships to create chances.

“I don’t think you can direct people in the final third. You can encourage. You can put Alfredo, Fashion and Ryan Kent together a lot. Why have those three been quite successful recently? Well, they knew each other the most. And then when Kemar comes on in the semi-final, and Scott Wright – they’ve known each other the most.

“Actually, it’s just knowing people. Who’s lived together the most? Who are the ones who are going to get there through habits rather than structure.

“Over time that doesn’t mean we don’t play younger players or now that we’ve signed Nico and Todd that they don’t play, you just know that they’re going to need a little bit of time to settle in. I think both of those players have started quite well for the club.”