Even in this surreal Celtic season, backing Nancy with a Palestinian twist would beat the lot.

These guys don’t do irony. Or maybe they do. Because I would find it highly amusing if we were to go out and back Wilfrid Nancy in the transfer market in a manner that reflects the seriousness and needs of this moment, and even more gobsmacked if we did it with a big-money spend on the Palestinian frontman Wessam Abou Ali.

Think of the message that would send. A strange one. A mixed one.

A confluence of events which might once upon a time have opened a lot of doors, mended a lot of fences and fixed a lot of problems. Will it happen? It should. It should all happen. Yet it would add another layer of weirdness to what is already weird enough.

There is nothing that would expand Celtic’s global footprint more than hiring a manager from the States and making a Palestinian front man the new icon of the Hoops. The geopolitics of it are almost too good to believe the people at the club could be this smart and this focused. That’s why I’d believe it only when I was seeing it with my own eyes. Even dripping this into the public domain shrieks of spin.

This is a classic case of people seeing four and four and getting to five.

Orwell said that 4+4 can sometimes make 5, but you would need more than doublethink to imagine this as a scenario that makes a whole lot of sense.

The organisation that faints at the sight of a single Palestinian flag is not about to see our ground turned into a sea of them.

The deal itself is a little rich for the blood of this board into the bargain. They think they’re getting a “yes man”. The idea that he might have thoughts of his own about our transfer policy would terrify them. To say this seems unlikely is an understatement.

Let’s drill down a little deeper. As I’ve said, there are signs that this board is flexing a little.

There are signs that the pressure is paying off, not least that self-detonation at the AGM, which they hoped would divide the support but has simply convinced more people than ever that this cannot be allowed to continue.

People who react like that are feeling the heat, and probably not just from one direction. The incompetence and dysfunctionality is extraordinary, which is par for the course. There is fear in the air too, and that might be important.

So I suspect there are people inside Celtic Park who recognise that things have to change. I think some voices inside the club are of the view that we’ve made major mistakes and that these errors need a serious course correction.

The decision to trust Tisdale with the appointment of the new boss is a clear step towards renewing the club. It would not be surprising if certain elements of the transfer policy were also undergoing a radical rethink.

The bean-counters on our board know – they know – that the summer cost us tens of millions in Champions League qualification money. They know that a happier football department, a manager who had been backed and a team whose leader hadn’t been undermined stood a good chance of getting through that tie. They cannot be unaware that they were partly responsible.

At some point in the cycle, you have to break the cycle. At some point, you must accept that what has failed in the past needs to be put right. Bringing in a new manager and giving him proper backing would be a good start. It would be a sign that maybe, just maybe, people were finally starting to take seriously the idea of this club pushing forward in the proper fashion.

Signing a Palestinian striker would open all sorts of doors for us across the world.

It would close some to and it would annoy people. It would be a controversial signing. Or at least, there will be people who try to dress it up that way. Those are people who are better ignored. Those are people who shouldn’t be involved in any discussion about Celtic in the first place. These are the same people who would not complain or object if we signed an Israeli player, so why would they care if it’s a Palestinian one?

I still think it’s pie in the sky. I still don’t believe we’re going to go out and do this.

But imagine if we did.

Imagine this board, with no sense of irony at all, appointed a good manager, gave him the backing Rodgers never got, and then to top it off, made his first signing a Palestinian international, cementing for the whole world the idea of Celtic as a pro-Palestinian club.

We’ve seen a lot this season so far.

We’ve seen some surreal stuff.

That would beat the lot.