Graeme Souness is hopeful the proposed 49ers Enterprises takeover at Rangers will catapult the club to success.
The former Ibrox player and manager reckons discussions over investment into the club "can only be good news" but warned there are no guarantees of success.
Souness - who managed a Scotland side in a Shooting Stars charity match to raise funds for Alzheimer Scotland - is desperate to see Rangers backed to bring in better players in the transfer market.
Rangers officials have been in discussions with 49ers Enterprises - an investment wing of the San Francisco 49ers - for months over a possible takeover.
The group already owns Leeds United and leading figures are keen to purchase a significant stake at Ibrox.
Of the proposed takeover, Souness said: "It's a very different football club to the one I worked at. We had lots of funds to work with.
"Rangers haven't had that in their recent history. Hopefully that's about to change.
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"I obviously want to see Rangers be successful. And I think if someone came in and had the financial capability to go out and buy better players, that can only be good news.
"It doesn't guarantee anything, but it would be good news."
Asked for his thoughts on the decision to appoint Barry Ferguson as head coach on an interim basis, he added: "Listen, that's not for me to comment on.
"I know Barry, I bought him when I was manager of Blackburn.
"I know he's a good guy and I know he's a football man. He knows the football club and I only wish him well."
On the loss to Motherwell, he added: "It didn't start well and then when you go a couple of goals behind it's very difficult.
"It was disappointing."
*To find out more about the charity match, please visit www.alzscot.org/shootingstars.
