The Ibrox club has outdone itself with its latest transfer failure excuse.

There’s a famous scene in Fawlty Towers where Basil, jittery about the hotel’s new German guests, keeps hammering his staff with the mantra “Don’t mention the war!” Then, naturally, he blurts out every possible reference to it, goose-steps round the dining room and finishes by offending everyone in a three-mile radius...