Rangers' second-largest shareholder, Dave King, is backing former director Paul Murray's plans to make an offer for the club.
King hopes to keep an Ibrox role; Murray shocked at liquidation claim
Rangers' second-largest shareholder, Dave King, is backing former director Paul Murray's plans to make an offer for the club before a deadline of 16th March.
South Africa-based King on Wednesday released a statement in which he voiced his fears that liquidation of the Ibrox outfit was 'inevitable' after they went into administration.
But current Rangers director King, who met with the club's administrators last week, also said he was backing Murray's 'Blue Knights' consortium in any possible takeover.
King, at the same time, has consulted the Scottish Football Association over potentially having a hands-on role at Rangers in the future.
Traditional
"In the interim, I will be putting my full support behind Paul Murray's initiative to secure the future of the club," he said.
"Paul is a very smart businessman of undoubted integrity and a man who holds all that is sacred and traditional at Rangers very close to his heart. He is exactly the type of man the club needs at this time.
"I intend to remain involved with the club, at least on my present basis, post-reconstruction if that is at all possible under the new ownership structure.
"I am, however, alert to the raw sentiment around the need for Rangers to have 'fit and proper' persons at its helm.
Surprise
"In view of my own well-publicised and acrimonious legal disputes with the authorities in South Africa, I have taken it upon myself to approach the SFA in that regard in advance of considering an increased role in the club going forward. I will be guided by the SFA's response in that regard."
And Murray believes the club can be saved from liquidation despite fears to the contrary by King.
He said: "From my point of view and talking to the administrators, I'm certainly not working on the basis that liquidation is inevitable.
"I'm surprised Dave King has actually released that statement, as he certainly didn't clear it with me.
"I agree with a lot of what he said, but with regard to liquidation I'm not sure I agree with that."
