Rangers remain in a state of flux.

The directors are attempting to move the club forward, which includes a proper evaluation process of candidates for the position of chief executive, but it is an institution that remains between regimes. Charles Green, for instance, is still a director of Rangers International Football Club and is entitled to participate in board meetings, which he has done by conference call, but there is uneasiness among the rest of the directors that he can still exert an influence even though he will leave the club in three weeks.

A board meeting was held yesterday without Green's involvement and the rest of the directors are all of the same opinion that Malcolm Murray should step aside as chairman to allow the club to try to make progress.

Murray wanted to oust Green and Imran Ahmad, the commercial director, because he felt they were wrong for their positions, and that has now been achieved. He pushed for an independent examination into Craig Whyte's claims that he was involved with Green and Ahmad's Sevco 5088 company, which was in line to purchase Rangers Football Club plc in the event of a successful Company Voluntary Arrangement last summer. When RFCplc was liquidated, the business and assets of the club were bought by Sevco Scotland. However, Herald Sport understands Murray also wants to oust Brian Stockbridge, the finance director who joined the club at the same time as Green and Ahmad.

Stockbridge himself has always stressed his independence from Green and Ahmad. The independent examination is expected to end within two weeks, at which point Murray is likely to be formally asked to step down.

There is no longer an entrenched split on the board and Stockbridge has, on occasion, sided with Walter Smith and Ian Hart who, along with Murray, are considered by supporters as Rangers men on the board.

"I said from day one that I wasn't happy with Charles Green," said Alex Rae, the former Rangers midfielder. "I thought some of his stuff was unbecoming of someone in that position. Rangers is a club with class, the hierarchy have a responsibility. I don't think he sold the club properly. He was always looking for little soundbites but nothing was being put in place. Hopefully everything will come out in the wash but now we just need the club to make steps forward. The revelations that have come out lately have been hard to take for the fans."

Green's relationship with Ally McCoist was strained, and the former planned to sack McCoist's two assistants, Kenny McDowall and Ian Durrant. The distrust reached back to the end of the transfer window last summer, when McCoist believed that he would be signing several additional players, only for Green to deliver David Templeton and say that business was done. Since then, Rangers have lost Neil Murray, the chief scout, Pip Yeates, the chief physio, and Tommy Wilson, the reserve team coach.

"Ally put a list of players he wanted in, but what happened was Carlos Bocanegra went and we brought in David Templeton on half the money," said Rae. "He sold him short. The club needs to put an infrastructure in place to give Ally a chance. Things like a proper scouting network."

Rangers can still rely upon the commitment of their fans and will need them to buy season tickets in similar numbers to last summer, when 38,000 funded the first stage of Rangers' rebuilding programme.

"If you don't run the club properly then you will be in trouble," said Henning Berg, who worked briefly under difficult owners at Blackburn Rovers. "Rangers is such a big club, with big history and fan base, that they will come back. It's just a question of time until they're back in the top league, competing to win it and to get back into Europe again. But you have to make sure that you run the club the right way It's not easy, it takes a lot of patience."