Kris Boyd has handed the SPFL title to Celtic before a ball is kicked.
Despite a £10m spree from Pedro Caixinha the former Sevco striker has written off his old club’s chances of stopping seven-in-a-row.
The fifth best coach in Qatar has hand picked the top stars in Mexico and Portugal to lead this season’s revolution but Boyd believes that the title is already destined for Glasgow’s east end.
“I would expect Celtic to win a domestic double this season, if not another treble,” the Kilmarnock striker admitted in The Sun.
“For me Rangers can only really hope to be second and that’s where I think they’ll finish.
“Pedro Caixinha has stumbled across a 4-4-2 formation but it seems to be working.
“Had I written this column a month ago it would have been totally different but there are signs that Rangers could be on to something.”
It seems that the arrival of Bruno Alves and Graham Dorrans has recreated the delusions of last season caused by the arrivals of Joey Barton and Nico Kranjcar.
Memories of losing out to Progres Niederkorn in the Europa League first round qualifier have been replaced by the promise shown in a friendly win over Sheffield Wednesday.
Tomorrow Sevco kick off the new season away to Motherwell knowing that anything less than a win will put pressure on Caixinha although the former bullfighter claims that pressure only applies to physics.