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Rangers directors Derek Llambias and Barry Leach will not attend Friday's EGM

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Sky Sports understand Rangers' remaining two directors will not attend the club's Extraordinary General Meeting on Friday.

Chief executive Derek Llambias and finance director Barry Leach are the only men on the Ibrox board following the resignation of chairman David Somers at the start of the week.

Dave King, a director of oldco Rangers, is looking to oust the duo and replace them with himself, former brewery owner John Gilligan and Paul Murray, like King a director of the oldco which was consigned to liquidation in the summer of 2012.

King claimed earlier this week he had been informed he would win the vote by a 'landslide' ruling out the need for the meeting which will cost the financially-strapped club tens of thousands of pounds.

However, his call to Llambias and Leach to step down fell on deaf ears with the duo insisting they were '100 per certain they would not resign before Friday'.

But while they will be at Ibrox on the day of the meeting, Sky sources understand they will not attend the shareholder gathering to be held at the stadium in the south side of Glasgow after two London hotels refused to stage the meeting.

Llambias, a long-time associate of Newcastle owner and Rangers shareholder Mike Ashley, has already arrived in Glasgow while King, who is based in South Africa, is expected to jet in later on Thursday.

Sky also understands Friday's meeting could be over in a matter of minutes with King having enough votes to comfortably carry his motion.

However, should he prevail, he will not immediately take up the chairman's position he has earmarked for himself, preferring instead to put Murray in the post on a temporary basis while allowing the SFA and regulators from the Stock Exchange to determine if he is regarded as a‘fit and proper person’ and able to assume the role.

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