MICHAEL BEALE is confident Rangers can maintain their 'conveyor belt' of talent if Giovanni van Bronckhorst loses his key men this summer.
Sevilla are leading the race to sign striker Alfredo Morelos, while the likes of Calvin Bassey and Joe Aribo have attracted interest from a host of Premier League clubs.
Bassey is likely to command the highest fee of the trio after Rangers put a £25million price tag on his head following his Man of the Match showing in the Europa League final.
Beale was part of Steven Gerrard's staff when Bassey and Aribo, and key men such as Ryan Kent and Glen Kamara, were brought to Ibrox to help secure title 55 and re-establish the club on the continent.
And the new Queens Park Rangers boss knows some tough decisions will need to be made this summer as a players consider their futures and the Light Blues board aim to kick-start their trading model.
Beale said: "I think the key thing for Ross Wilson and the staff there is to have the conveyor belt in place.
"I think the cross-border thing really helped in terms of taking a player like that for just over £200,000. The same with Joe Aribo.
"Having the conveyor belt in place is really important. That conveyor belt can come through your own academy, like a Nathan Patterson, or it can come from outside.
"But it’s important when players come and they reach a selling point… With the TV money, it’s the same in the Championship as it is for Glasgow Rangers. You have to sell at the right time.
"If the money being bandied about for Calvin is actually a reality then what a return on your investment that is. Albeit on a selfish side I’d like to see him continue because I know he’s having a lovely time.
"I think you make an environment in a football club that players love to come into and work.
"That changing room at Rangers has really come together over the last few years. Both from disappointments and success, but also the racism case involving Glen Kamara.
"It really brought people together going through that. And going through the Covid time, when we really supported each other.
"I think it’s a really hard place to leave, albeit that to be sustainable – exactly the same as we are at QPR – you have to develop players on.
"If those players then have people coming after them, it means the team must have done well because the team is the vehicle."
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