Robbie Thelwell is to take on the head of recruitment role at Rangers, working under his father Kevin at Ibrox.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old will arrive from Norwich City, where he has been head of technical scouting and loan management since July 2024.<\/p>\n
He has also had scouting spells with Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers, where his dad was sporting director.<\/p>\n
Thelwell senior took on the same post at Rangers this summer after leaving Everton.<\/p>\n
He oversaw the appointment of head coach Russell Martin and the arrival of 13 new players but Rangers have endured a disappointing start to the season, winning just five of their 15 matches in all competitions.<\/p>\n
Rangers also plan to appoint a new head scout and data insights lead.<\/p>\n
Martin was asked about Thelwell’s appointment in his media conference to preview Thursday’s Europa League match away to Sturm Graz.<\/p>\n
“My thoughts are, as we have the squad, the club needs change,” he said. <\/p>\n
“It needs to move forward, it needs to be done in a certain way. Not everyone will like certain things and how they are, but the club has to have something and some way to move forward. <\/p>\n
“That’s about getting really good people in who have done a really good job elsewhere. I really trust that Kevin, [technical director] Dan [Purdy], Patrick [Stewart], the owners, wouldn’t let anyone in the building unless they thought they were really, really good.<\/p>\n
“I think the person most aware of that and having lots of chats with him would be Kevin. So I don’t think he’d ever put himself in that position if he and Dan didn’t believe that his son was very good. <\/p>\n
“I worked at Norwich for a very long time, there are a lot of people still there who think he’s very, very good.<\/p>\n
“And if he’s got the same values and clarity as his old man, he’ll be in good hands.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robbie Thelwell is to take on the head of recruitment role at Rangers, working under his father Kevin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-179480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}