Rangers director Dave King and manager Ally McCoist have met the club's administrators.

Duff and Phelps were called in to the club last week over unpaid tax accumulated since Craig Whyte bought the club in May 2011.

On Wednesday, South African-based businessman Mr King and Mr McCoist left the stadium before travelling away in a car together. The nature of the meeting with the administrators is not yet known.

A Rangers spokesman told STV News: "Mr King met members of the administration team today to discuss the general situation the club is in and his continuing obligations as a director while the club is in administration."

It is understood Mr King met with Mr McCoist to lend him his support after the club entered administration.

Previously, press reports had claimed that Mr King, a non-executive director at Ibrox, had been removed from the board shortly before the club filed a notice of intent to appoint administrators last Monday.

However, at the time Rangers said that the businessman, a Scot who lives in Johannesburg, was still a director, while no notice of terminating the appointment was lodged with the stock exchange or Companies House.

Mr King invested £20m in Rangers in March 2000, while at the time of Mr Whyte’s takeover both he and fellow non executive director Paul Murray proposed an alternative £25m buyout of the club.

However, this did not materialise and Mr Whyte bought the club from Sir David Murray for a nominal £1 and paid off an £18m debt to Lloyds Banking Group by selling off future season tickets for £24.4m.

Mr Murray has met with fans representatives over a possible consortium to take over the running of the crisis-hit club.

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