RANGERS will release Daniel Cousin if administrator Paul Clark announces that there will be redundancies at the club.

Manager Ally McCoist will meet Clark today and expects a full briefing on the cost-cutting measures being put in place and whether any of the club's 177 staff will lose their jobs.

Gabon international Cousin has agreed to a wage cut, to around £5,000-a-week, and accepted it would be inappropriate for the deal to go ahead if Clark decides there must be redundancies.

McCoist consulted senior players and PFA Scotland chief executive Fraser Wishart before deciding to continue the deal last week.

The players supported the move, he said. "We all agreed we would continue with the attempt to sign Daniel.

"In fairness to Daniel he's gone from thinking his deal was signed, sealed and delivered to taking a wage cut, which he duly did."

The SPL board refused to sanction the deal because Rangers were in administration.

Rangers can appeal that decision this week and whether they do so will depend on what Clark tells McCoist about redundancies.

"We will have a chat tomorrow and decide what we want to do with it." said the manager, who dismissed a claim that Cousin had already been paid in full for a three-month contract.

McCoist is now preparing himself for his most testing week in football.

"I am braced for anything that comes our way," he said.