Businessman Scott Galloway has revealed he planned to buy Rangers as part of a US-Scottish consortium.

The professor of marketing at the New york Stern School of Business - who is also a best-selling author - has opened up on his scrapped plan to take control at Ibrox.

Galloway, who is a passionate football fan, had rounded up a group of 14 of the wealthiest Scots in the United States and drawn up a plan to take ownership of the Ibrox club.

The 59-year-old planned to use a £10m convertible note in the share purchase to then run the club.

However, he was quickly talked out of the idea after a close friend warned 'they would hate you' in an 'American idiot' stab at the ambitious plans.

Speaking on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Galloway explained: “I got together the wealthiest, most famous Scottish people in the US, which is about 14 of us, and said let's go buy Rangers FC.

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"It's a publicly traded company, I had it all figured out £10m convertible note.

"And then a friend of mine, a famous Scottish historian said ‘You’d be the most hated person in the United Kingdom, they would hate you. You know nothing about football, you’d be some American idiot over there’ and I was like yeah you’re right.

"He said, 'Just go to Rangers games, what are you thinking?'"