Rangers skipper Lee Wallace insisted there was no "turmoil" at Ibrox despite further delays in recruiting a new management team as he hailed "outstanding" caretaker boss Graeme Murty.
Murty could be set to take charge of a sixth game, and the most high-profile against Celtic, as the Rangers board attempt to finalise a deal to bring in first-choice candidate Pedro Caixinha from Qatari club Al-Gharafa.
Rangers look to have missed out on director of football target Ross Wilson and could be forced to shelve plans to fill that new role until a later date.
But Murty led Rangers to their biggest win of the season, a 6-0 victory over Hamilton, on Saturday and Wallace feels the under-20s boss and academy coach David McCallum have kept things steady following the abrupt departure of Mark Warburton.
"For how difficult the circumstances have been, he has come in and been outstanding," the left-back told Rangers TV.
"There has been a freshness and a good energy from Graeme and David, and while it has been a difficult period for him coming in, he has stuck to the task so professionally and has given us everything that he possibly could.
"We have sensed that, and his work ethic has been infectious and the way he has got his points across, the way he has tried to tidy different parts of our game up, the way we analyse and take that out onto the training pitch and into games has all been really positive.
"We have been really pleased with the way he has gone about things in the last few weeks."
Wallace added: "Another thing that is levelled at the players in these periods is that we are unsettled and there can be unrest and turmoil. I think I was even quoted as saying that had been the case, but I don't know where that came from.
"I am fully aware and fully conscious that there is no turmoil in here - we are professional footballers and we get on with our job. We train well and prepare for games as we always do, whether there is a manager in place or not.
"We fully respect the fact there is a process going on and the board are taking their time.
"We are soldiers in this building and we do what we are told - we work hard and get ready for a game until we are told otherwise.
"That has been the case for the last three weeks, and as players we'll continue to do that until a decision is made."
Murty himself feels that forging relationships with the players has been critical.
"I think the more and more I get into this job and this art of coaching it's about understanding people and understanding your relationship with them and how it can be impactful to them," he said.
"I said to them at the start, if I ever do anything that upsets you or annoys you, my door's there, come and talk to me because I'm learning by you and I'm learning about how you work and I don't have all of the answers.
"I would like to have all the answers and the only way I'm going to get them is if you come and talk to me about how you are experiencing it, and they've been really good."
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