Former chairman Dave King is the largest individual shareholder with a stake of 12.96%. Douglas Park owns 11.54% and George Taylor holds 10.22% of the shares. Stuart Gibson holds 9.53%, while John Bennett, who stood down as chairman last year for health reasons, has 7.11%.

If an agreement can be thrashed out the Ibrox club stand to benefit from a major cash injection from the American backers

Rangers could soon be taken over by the San Francisco 49ers as a consortium looks to buy the Scottish giants having first purchased Leeds United several years ago