Anthony Galinski is the latest Belgian to join Philippe Clement’s Rangers recruitment team.
The ex-Royal Antwerp scout played a crucial role in the Belgian club’s first title in 66 years last season.
Rangers’ new lead international scout spent over two years working with the Belgian Pro League side and helped build a squad capable of lifting a legendary title in the last minute last season.
And now Rangers will be hoping to harness Anthony Galinski’s talents in the transfer market as the Ibrox side looked to build toward success at home and abroad.
But the move means that Philippe Clement’s comments about a Belgian “colony” at Ibrox have come into greater focus.
Is Philippe Clement building Belgian “colony” after all?
Manager Philippe Clement might be the face of Rangers at present but he is not the first key Belgian staffer to be hired at Ibrox.
Talented young Royal Antwerp youth coach Zeb Jacobs was appointed the Rangers Academy Director in the summer after an impressive spell with the club’s B Team.
Then followed Philippe Clement who claimed early on in his Rangers journey that he did not want to build a Belgian “colony” at the club.
Whether Big Phil meant on the field or off it, Rangers certainly have a lot of influence from the nation at their club at present.
The comments came after the appointment of ex-PSV recruitment guru and fellow Belgian Nils Koppen as Rangers’ new Director of Recruitment.
“I have had discussions with the candidates together with the board,” said Clement back in December. “You certainly don’t have to call me a manager based on the English model, I’m really not concerned with job titles. But I do feel that the club highly values my opinion.”
“We did not take Nils because he is Belgian, but because he made the best impression in the conversations and we had very good references about him. What’s more, the only thing that made me doubt it was that he is Belgian.
“After all, it is absolutely not the intention to turn this into a Belgian colony.”
Anthony Galinski latest Belgian to join Rangers backroom
The appointment of Anthony Galinski is another forward thinking move by Rangers who continue to build a young team of key influencers driving the club in the background.
The young Belgian scout certainly appears happy at the decision to move to Rangers, expressing his excitement at signing for the “mythical” Gers on Instagram.
It’s not just in the backroom staff that Rangers have a Belgian flavour too.
First-team midfielder Nicolas Raskin is a Belgian U21 international with high hopes of making an impact on the country in the future.
Kemar Roofe was signed from Anderlecht, whilst the likes of Ianis Hagi (KRC Genk) and Fashion Sakala (KV Oostende) also made their way to Ibrox via the country.
However, on the playing side of things Rangers looked elsewhere in Clement and Koppen’s first window to date.
Signing Portuguese forward Fabio Silva (Wolves, loan), Ivorian midfielder Mohamed Diomande (FC Nordsjælland) and Colombian winger Oscar Cortes (RC Lens), it’s clear being Belgian isn’t a pre-requisite of joining the Ibrox club.
Even if we’re poaching plenty of talent from the country.
Rangers’ new scout Anthony Galinski might be soon getting to work too, according to the latest reports coming out of Belgium.
