Michael Beale has been warned that his focus must now be fully on Rangers amid intense scrutiny for the way he left QPR. 

Fans of the London club were left furious after he departed them for the Ibrox side yesterday. 

Beale sealed his emotional return to Rangers by penning a three-and-a-half year deal until 2026. 

However, this came just six-weeks after he appeared to commit his future to QPR. 

This has led to some fans and pundits questioning his "intergrity and loyalty”.

But Michael Stewart has told him to forget about such talk, warning that Beale must make a quick start to life as Gers gaffer in order to claw back the gap to Celtic.

He wrote in The Times: "Having just pledged his allegiance to QPR he could claim some deniability and insist nothing should be read into his visit. It certainly threw me off the scent.

"I genuinely thought there was no way he would turn up at a club where the manager was under pressure and have any intentions of taking the man's job. How wrong I was! Football can be such a cruel business at times.

"Football is an incredibly fickle business and, undoubtedly, there will be QPR and Wolves fans feeling they are better off without Beale.

"On the flip side many Rangers fans will happily ignore these issues and focus on the 'special' connection their new manager has with their club as the reasons he has returned and remember fondly the improvements made while Beale was at their club first time around.

"In the hotbed of Scottish football, some thrive while others wilt. We will soon find out which category Beale falls into. One thing is for certain right now.

"Integrity and loyalty count for nothing in this business. Victories are the only currency that count. For Beale those wins have to come quickly."

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