“Grow up” – Kevin Thelwell has just made a major Rangers Findlay Curtis blunder

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·15 November 2025

“Grow up” – Kevin Thelwell has just made a major Rangers Findlay Curtis blunder

Rangers’ Sporting Director Kevin Thelwell’s wide-ranging RTV interview has certainly had a few tongues wagging. Kevin Thelwell and Rangers youth is the next item on the agenda.

He is hardly Mr Popular, whether he knows it or not, and nothing he will say will make anyone like him.

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But he can do himself more damage with his comments by making… well more of them, and his latest have done that.

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Speaking about Rangers’ youth he said:

“My philosophy has always been, at many clubs, before you sign somebody, you should probably look to the pitch next door to you first,” he said. “There’s a good reason for that. Number one, players who live in the area and have grown up in the area support the football club. That doesn’t also come straight away. Sometimes you have to keep the door open a little bit until some of these young players are ready because it takes a little bit of time to grow people up.”

Thelwell has been in charge now since summer this year. But we’re not seeing much evidence of any youth players getting much of a look in.

Indeed, the only youth that gets a chance are the ones Thelwell brought in himself, like Jayden Meghoma and of course Mikey Moore.

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The big Rangers name here is naturally Findlay Curtis. He’s a year older than Moore but barely gets any play time at all.

He got a few appearances under Russell Martin but not a lot more under Rohl, and for a Sporting Director to preach about playing native youth, it doesn’t sound a lot like he’s practising that.

Meanwhile what other Rangers youth are even close to getting inroads?

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Paul Nsio was extremely promising but got farmed out to Raith, and others just rot in the Academy.

Meanwhile Rangers signed other clubs’ youth like Lyall Cameron rather than play our own.

It does seem like Thelwell is full of hot air a lot of the time.

He plugs his ‘success’ with Braithwaite at Everton, but Everton were bottom of the league during that time.

Thelwell seems delusional, and to this day is still trying to prove Youssef Chermiti wasn’t a waste of £10M. Kevin Thelwell and Rangers youth is a toxic area.

That about sums him up.