The ultimate moonbeam?

With perfect timing, on the day that Rangers release their financial results for last season, and the result of a Uefa enquiry into crowd trouble in Romania, a 'Florida-based Scottish expatriate billionaire' has decided to whisper to The Herald about his take-over plans for Rangers.

The report does carry some credibility since it is in the business pages but after the big build up the eight paragraph report concludes with the news that Dave King is still the likeliest new owner of Rangers.

The timing of this moonbeam of information should be enough to alert the more level headed and sensible Rangers supporters.

'Jam Tomorrow' is a favoured meal for hungry football supporters, Celtic fans were given Cambuslang and other baloney during the early 90's but, outwith the incredibly gullible, the spin coming from the Kelly and White camp was laughed at.

Moonbeams has been the Rangers buzzword in recent years as deflection tactics have been put on red alert.

Concerns through the 2005/06 season as Rangers battled with Hearts for second place were eased with news of Scott Brown's 'done deal' to join Rangers.

Leaks about fantastic new stadium developments have appeared regularly over recent years despite Ibrox remaining virtually unaltered in the last 15 years.

With intense pressure from the banks mixed with the unwanted Uefa charge times are getting quite desperate around Rangers with the size of the financial black hole too big for any conventional West of Scotland businessmen to take over.

The recent example of Mike Ashley losing tens of millions at Newcastle has provided a reality check for most that might have considered buying Rangers leaving only the elusive Dave King as a possible saviour, should he manage to overcome over 300 tax charges from the South African authorities.

Today's Herald story simply seems to tick the boxes on the wishlist of many, the elusive private investor, Glasgow born of course, paving the way for the fans takeover.

Expatriate Scottish billionaires are thin on the ground and unlikely to remain in the background, despite various Rich Lists there has never been any mention of any Florida based Scot unless former Kilmarnock owner Bobby Fleeting has made a serious killing.

I suspect that today's story is unlikely to come to fruition, both strands seem too far fetched.

It does illustrate the extremely limited pool that Rangers have to find a saviour from, in the meantime it looks much more likely that they will limp along suffering severe financial cutbacks that will drastically effect their player pool and management team.

Celtic we hope are ignoring the fuss, planning their way ahead back to the recent times when we had a team competent of competing seriously in the group stages of the Champions League whilst being the driving force in Scottish football.