For a man whose father has changed the lifting of an eyebrow into an art form, it was appropriate that the name of Davide Ancelotti should be the name of Davide with a shock value.
Many eyebrows would certainly have grew up among Rangers -fans when it appeared on Monday that Ancelotti, son of the Great Don Carlo, is in the race to become the next manager of the club.
Currently with the back room staff as an assistant coach at Real Madrid, Ancelotti Junior will leave when his father leaves at the end of the season to take the lead over the Brazilian national team.
According to reports in Spain, the 35-year-old, who has no previous frontline experience as a manager, is now a nailed certainty to take the job at Ibrox.
In terms of a name of the left field and a bolt of the blue, this was up there.
Private club sources at Rangers played it quickly. The recruitment process for a new boss is still at an early stage and as such, no leading candidate has yet been identified.
All reports that Ancelotti has been offered the course, as some points of sale in the Spanish media claims are early and wide of the goal.
Kevin Thelwell is the man who will be given the task of recruiting a new manager when he takes on his role as new sports director of Rangers.
Since Thelwell is not even in the building yet and will not start working formally until he leaves Everton at the end of the season, the appointment will not take place for a few weeks.
But just as good as sources at Rangers and the American consortium that wanted to take over the control of the club of cold water about suggestions that Ancelotti was on the road, nor did they deny suggestions that his name was considered.
What an obvious question raises. With the club that needs a huge rebuilding on and next to the field in the summer, why on earth would Rangers play with the idea of appointing a total beginner?
Barry Ferguson spoke yesterday about how Rangers is not a club for an unproven project manager, while he admits that he really doesn't know much about Ancelotti than the obvious link to his father.
Ferguson was perfect. The * last * thing that Rangers now needs is to take an end to any rookie. A man whose CV has little to suggest that he should be the next manager of Rangers, except that he has a famous last name.
Let us give Ancelotti the benefit of the doubt and assume that he – instead of Carlo – has been the brain behind all the success at Real Madrid.
Would that guarantee that he will become a great manager if he eventually steps out of the shadow of his father? No, of course not.
Rangers have this stuff firsthand. With common permission, Michael Beale was a good assistant coach under Steven Gerrard near Ibrox. See where his appointment as a CEO was given the club.
Ally McCoist was a popular and capable no. 2 for Walter Smith, but was never really really as a manager in itself. There are countless examples of this during football.
Being a good assistant manager – and we can only assume that Ancelotti is nothing less, seen how his father promoted him in Bayern Munich, Napoli, Everton and most recently Madrid – does not guarantee anything.
Angelo Alessio worked for almost 10 years as the right hand of Antonio Conte. When Alessio threw Kilmarnock in the summer of 2019, he was a total disaster and was fired by Christmas.
In 1999, Brian Kidd left his role as an assistant to Sir Alex Ferguson in Manchester United to take the lead over Blackburn.
Only a few months later United celebrated the Treble while Kidd was fired after robbers were banned.
Carlos Queiroz was another Fergie NO2 that broke himself. The Portuguese coach, who had previously led his national team and Sporting Lisbon, took the lead of Real Madrid in 2003.
He was fired after a season, a disastrous campaign in which Madrid finished in La Liga and struck a non-planted Monaco side from the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
Perhaps Davide Ancelotti will be a good manager on time. Perhaps he will turn out to be a Mikel Arteta, who cuts his teeth under Pep Guardiola for three years than Angelo Alessio.
But it would be a reckless gamble if Rangers would now go somewhere near him. They need a proven operator, not a project manager.
It is not difficult to imagine a Rookie -Baas who bangs about how Rangers had 65 percent owned and gave one of their best performance of the season, shortly after his team has just been defeated in Aberdeen.
The club has been in that film earlier. In recent years, fans have been seated and listened to the delusions of Beale and Philippe Clement.
At least Clement had a track record of winning things in Belgium. However, that was the level of pens that he was routinely trotting in his last few months that was in charge, routinely, he became unofficially known as the bare beale.
Rangers do not need any other beale, bare or otherwise. If and when the takeover has been completed, they need a real substance manager to help the club move forward.
A manager who is able to rebuild the team and generate a clear playing style. They need their own version of Ange Postecoglou.
Celtic took a point on Postecoglou in 2021 by giving him his first major club track in Europe, the difference was that he already had a wealth of experience as a manager, won competition titles and had coached in a World Cup.
Davide Ancelotti doesn't have that. His old man is perhaps the godfather of modern managers, but for Rangers to make him an offer that he cannot refuse? That would be madness.
Are you never walking alone? Try to tell Trent after fans have slaughtered him
How deadly that a large part of the crowd in Anfield chose Boo and Jeer Trent Alexander-Arnold on Sunday afternoon.
Brought as a replacement in the second half of Liverpool's 2-2 draw with Arsenal, the right back was humiliated by the club's own supporters.
Listen, fans would never welcome his departure to Real Madrid at the end of the season.
But he did not deserve to be publicly slaughtered. It was Petulant and made a spot of everything Liverpool should be like a club.
Alexander-Arnold does not owe Liverpool. He is a local boy who came through the academy, won two Premier League titles and a Champions League and developed into a world-class talent.
This is not the same as when Steven Gerrard formally transferred a transfer request 20 years ago to give his intention to become a member of Chelsea.
When that bomb fell, fans set fire to wear the replica shirts with his name and burned outside the stadium.
The idea that Gerrard demands to leave to become a member of one of the largest rivals in Liverpool was just too much to take.
Alexander-Arnold did not do that. He has not submitted a transfer request. He did not bring down any tools or spit the dummy.
No, he has had a unique opportunity to become a member of the largest club in world football and chosen to accept it.
He could have chosen to stay in Liverpool for the rest of his career. That would have been a comfort zone.
He took himself from it and wants to test himself. When Madrid comes to call, no player does not reject their right mind. Regardless of the wealth or romance in England.
Not Cristiano Ronaldo. Not Gareth Bale. Not Luka Modric. Not Steve McManaman. Not Michael Owen.
Even the entire wealth of the state of Qatar could not convince Kylian Mbappe to stay in Paris instead of going to the Bernabeu.
If Alexander-Arnold is taxed by fans of Liverpool is wrong. Are you never walking alone? Well, as long as you don't run to Real Madrid.