MARK Warburton didn't meet Dave King prior to the Englishman's appointment as Rangers manager, with the chairman instead delegating the task of filling the vacancy to two other directors.

Warburton was confirmed in the post on Monday having agreed a three-year deal to replace Stuart McCall at Ibrox. By that point he had yet to meet King who revealed recently he intends on travelling back to Scotland from his home in South Africa just four times a year.

Instead, it was left to directors John Gilligan and Paul Murray to conduct the recruitment process, before reporting back to King and the rest of the board for their approval.

Warburton hopes to meet his new chairman soon but he was impressed with the way King had previously spoken at a press conference he had seen on TV.

"We haven't met as yet," said the former Brentford manager of King. "I am sure he's a very busy man and he's chairman of the football club so whenever the schedule allows I look forward to that. I heard the [television] interview [when he was unveiled as chairman], the passion was very evident. I thought he spoke very well of the aims and ambitions for the club, so I was very impressed by that speech. It was a long speech and the questions were quite demanding and the answers were good.

"We had to ask the right quest-ions about [the state of the club] and I am sure John, Paul and the board asked the right questions about David [Weir, his assistant] and me. It goes the same for Mr Chairman. He was grilled and we listened to the answers he gave and I thought they were really positive about the football club."

Gilligan explained that delegating a decision of this magnitude was fairly commonplace in business.

"This is how I worked at Tennent's when I was MD of a £150 million business," he said. "People come with recommendations, you have a board meeting and OK it. That's exactly what happens, so it's not Dave sitting in a room deciding.

"In this instance, Paul and I were charged with the task of going and recruiting the manager and then reporting back to the board and explaining why we thought the choice was right and then the board gave their opinion. Dave, contrary to what a lot of people might think, was quite comfortable with that, he delegated that job and that's the way a board should operate. We recommended and then the board took the recommendation and decided 'yes'."

Murray, meanwhile, confirmed the Rangers playing budget would be commensurate with previous seasons, but hoped it would be spent more prudently than before.

"People are looking to make up headlines saying we will spend x number of millions but it is not really what we want to do. We want to spend money wisely and probably a bit differently from the past - we will try to get value.

"Our ambitions are to get the club back to the very top of Scottish football as quickly as possible. But we don't want to do that by taking unsustainable risk. I don't think just making a marquee signing for the sake of it is always a good idea but if a player becomes available that Mark thinks can add some value to the club then we will obviously look at that.

"We are not going to sign Ronaldo or Messi anytime soon but there are obviously a good number of players being offered that we are having initial discussions with. There will be certain positions that will be priorities and we will need to deal with them quickly. You are never guaranteed you are going to get a transfer target in time. So it is going to have to be a lot of hard work and a lot of focus over the next few weeks."