• ‘At no stage did we resign from our positions at Rangers’ • Warburton, David Weir and Frank McParland release joint statement

Mark Warburton has called on Rangers to answer questions put to them by the League Managers Association (LMA) as he reiterated his position that he did not resign from the club.

In a joint statement with his assistant, David Weir, and head of recruitment Frank McParland, released on Wednesday, the deposed Rangers management team expressed their surprise that the club had not addressed the questions posed to them.

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Rangers announced on Friday they had accepted the trio’s resignations and Graeme Murty took the team during Sunday’s Scottish Cup win over Morton.

The statement, released by the LMA, read: “Much has been said over the last few days relating to our departure from Rangers Football Club.

“At this stage, for legal reasons, it is inappropriate for us to comment in any great detail on our departure from the club.

“However, given that the club has seen fit to make detailed public statements, it is important that we should clarify certain matters and as such we would like to formally place on record, that at no stage did we resign from our positions at Rangers.

“It is a matter of surprise to us, and to the League Managers Association, which is advising all three of us, that despite its detailed public statements, the club has not answered key questions put to it by the LMA, in writing, requesting an explanation of why it suggested that we resigned from our positions.”

Rangers released a statement on Friday that claimed Warburton, Weir and McParland had come to an agreement to leave the club via their joint representative.

The chairman, Dave King, followed that up on Saturday with a lengthy update which criticised Warburton for his response to boardroom scrutiny and accused him of a lack of commitment to the club.

King claimed that after a meeting their agent “subsequently offered that Mark, David and Frank would resign with immediate effect without compensation as long as the club, in turn, agreed to waive compensation from any new club that they signed for.

“After discussion the board accepted this offer and employment was immediately terminated. In order for us to achieve our ambitions we need employees that, like your board members, will always put Rangers first.

“While we were dealing with the admin and press releases relating to the resignation the agent again contacted us and asked to defer the resignation until the management had secured a new club. I assume that the new deal had somehow collapsed at the last minute. The board met to consider this request but resolved to hold them to the original agreement.”