A whopping 5.4million shares of Celtic have been snapped up overnight by Lindsell equity group.[London Stock Exchange]

Lindsell train has long been the second biggest shareholder in Celtic. Their investment in the club is not emotional and they are hands off for the most part.

The equity group seek out opportunities in the sporting market where they believe there’s heavy potential for growth and profit.

Lindsell are playing the long game with Celtic shared and believe when the club leaves the Scottish football league setup, the shares will likely quadruple in value making a massive profit for the group.

It means there’s been someone shifting shares in the club and happy to do so.

At last we checked the Lindsell company had 18.6% holdings in the business.

We’re unsure what this means right now for the bigger picture.

The Celtic Trust met on Monday evening to discuss further steps in how they deal with the current custodians of the club.

The groups goal is for fans ownership, but that looks like an insurmountable pipe dream at the moment.

The big worry is with just two groups holding over 50% of Celtic’s shares, we could be open to a hostile takeover in the future.

Celtic fans having more of a say through shareholdings would be welcome. The Trust are trying to engage small shareholders to come on board with them to vote with the supporters and the Trust when it comes to vital issues.