AN AMERICAN businessman has revealed he wanted to buy Rangers but was put off after being told he’d be “the most hated person in the United Kingdom”.
The son of a Scottish immigrant, Scott Galloway is a professor of marketing at New York University Stern School of Business as well as a entrepreneur, podcast host and public speaker.
He is also a best-selling author of four New York Times bestselling books.
Galloway recently appeared on the popular Diary of a CEO podcast where he told people not to follow their passion but to follow their talent.
But he did not follow through with his idea of a Stateside consortium investing in the Ibrox club after a warning from a “Scottish historian”.
He said: “I got together the wealthiest, most famous Scottish people in the US, about 14 of us, and said let’s go buy Rangers FC.
“It’s a publicly traded company, I had it all figured out, £10m convertible note.
“Then a friend of mine, who is a famous Scottish historian, said ‘you’d be the most hated person in the United Kingdom, you know nothing about football, you’d be some American idiot over there’ and I was like yeah you’re right.
“He just ‘just go to Rangers games!’ What are you thinking?'”
It’s unclear when Galloway considered the move or how close it really came to fruition.