Dull Rangers transfers won't have Celtic quaking but what underpins them offers reason for optimism – Keith Jackson

Let's be honest, they’re not exactly the kind of signings which will have the rest of Scotland - and Celtic in particular - quaking in their boots.

Joe Rothwell and Max Aarons struggled to get a game at Bournemouth. Manny Fernandez was playing in the third tier of English football at Peterborough last season. Thelo Aasgaard would have been preparing for a stint in that same division had he not bailed out on relegated Luton Town.

Nasser Djiga has put pen to paper on a season long loan deal having failed to get any significant game time at Wolves following his £10m move from Red Star Belgrade.

And Lyall Cameron has been signed on a free transfer from Dundee, albeit on a pre-contract which was signed before Russell Martin ’s appointment as Philippe Clement’s successor.

Anyway, the point is that none of these names, if taken in isolation, would strike fear into the hearts of those who are about to cross swords with Martin’s new look side in the coming campaign.

There may even be some Rangers supporters out there who are struggling to rediscover their enthusiasm for the season ahead and who feel, for the most part, largely underwhelmed by the beginning of a new era under the ownership of Andrew Cavenagh and the San Francisco 49ers.

It was 30 years ago that these same fans were reaching for the tins of peroxide when Paul Gascoigne was being paraded as their new No.8 and they may have been hoping for a similar level of excitement and stardust from the moment they read in the Daily Record that the Americans were coming to town.

Instead, they were left to require a double take when Martin was given the job of fronting up this latest transformational rebuild.

Whatever they might have been expecting from Cavenagh and his