I smell Rangers takeover madness but it's the leader of Celtic who fascinates me during a revolution – Hugh Keevins

Was full disclosure of Rangers’ takeover, in the week Celtic won the league title, deliberately timed to deflect from an empty trophy room at Ibrox?

The old cynic in me says it probably was the reason for Wednesday night’s outpouring of information regarding 49ers Enterprises and the appointment of Kevin Thelwell as sporting director.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that, of course, especially for the media. We are now about to witness a gloriously uninhibited bout of madness when it comes to speculation over what happens in the immediate future.

Rangers’ official statement relating to the negotiations with their soon to be American owners spoke about the
provision of “additional capital”.

This will be interpreted by the more excitable as Glasgow Airport being inundated by the arrival of a succession of
multi-million pound players from around the globe.

San Francisco 49ers pay their star quarterback Brock Purdy $50million dollars per NFL season, after all. And the organisation’s latest accounts show total revenue to be $680m – so untold fortunes must be on the way.

Or so some will claim.

Thelwell will, though, need to get up to speed with the city to where he has relocated from his post at Everton. The new sporting director’s introductory statement used the words: “Change takes time.”

Not in Glasgow, it doesn’t. If you’re not part of a title-winning club by this time next year there’ll be people suggesting you, and others, should be replaced.

Rangers fans want to believe Celtic’s time as the dominant force in Scottish football is about to be terminated on the back of long-cherished investment at their club – and the clock is ticking.

What the midweek revelations did was signal the dawn of a new beginning and the