RANGERS' management, players and staff remained locked in talks today over the extent of job cuts at the crisis-hit club.

A projected cash shortfall of around £4.5 million has to be covered between now and the end of the season, and a brutal cost-cutting regime will be confirmed by the club's administrators today.

There was a stay-of- execution for players and other club staff who had feared administrators Duff and Phelps would announce redundancies at Ibrox yesterday.

Intense negotiating work by manager Ally

turn to page 46