The Rumour Mill: Wednesday’s football news and gossip

• Rangers administrators are adamant that Craig Whyte will play no part in deciding who buys the crisis-hit club. A source close to chief administrator Paul Clark dismissed the discredited tycoon’s threats to demand a role in shaping the club’s future. (Sun)

• Celtic defender Thomas Rogne has urged Neil Lennon not to change the way he behaves during matches and insists it is the manager’s passion which has taken the club to the brink of their first SPL title in four years. (Various)

• Dunfermline chairman John Yorkston has claimed that the ten non-Old Firm clubs could resign from the Scottish Premier League if Celtic and Rangers go ahead with their intention to block voting reform. (Scotsman)

• Former Celtic star Aiden McGeady is being watched closely by other Russian clubs after apparently falling out with boss Valeri Karpin at Spartak Moscow. (Scotsman)

• Celtic defender Darren O’Dea is ready to leave Parkhead in the summer. The 25-year-old, who is currently on loan at Leeds, confirmed his intention to find a new club. Morten Rasmussen could also quit the club to move back to AGF Aarhus. (Record)

• Kyle Lafferty has taunted Celtic in the wake of Rangers’ Old Firm win. The striker said: “As a team, we’re the best. We play the best football and when the going gets tough, we’re always there and accounted for.” (Record)

• Duff and Phelps could receive up to £3million if Rangers’ period of administration stretches into the summer, with the company charging £654 per hour for each member of their staff’s service. (Record)

• Ken McGeoch has put his shares in St Mirren up for sale after the Paisley club called for his resignation as director for allegedly showing “commercially sensitive documents” to Rangers company secretary Gary Withey. Withey, a former partner in the London law firm Collyer Bristow, brokered the Rangers takeover deal in May 2011 when Craig Whyte paid a nominal £1 for Sir David Murray’s 85 per cent shareholding. (Various)

• Kilmarnock captain Manuel Pascali will sign a three-year deal at Rugby Park before playing out the rest of his career in Italy. The 30-year-old believes the SPL club can qualify for the Champions League within that time. (Record)

• Milos Lacny may have kicked his last ball for Dundee United after being told he needs knee surgery. His recovery is unlikely to be complete before his loan from Slovan Bratislava ends. (Record)

• Former Rangers and Falkirk player Alan Gow is awaiting international clearance from India to seal a move back to Britain after agreeing terms with Exeter City. (Sun)

• Scotland midfielder Charlie Adam is almost certainly out for the rest of the season after picking up a knee injury in Liverpool’s defeat to QPR. (Various)

• And Adam’s Scotland team-mate James Morrison will also miss the end-of-season trip to America after suffering medial ligament damage in West Brom’s defeat to Newcastle. (Express)

• First Division title favourites Ross County face losing 12 players who are out of contract in the summer ahead of their expected arrival in the SPL. (Record)

• Hamilton winger Grant Anderson is a loan signing target for a number of Second Division clubs ahead of Friday’s deadline for temporary transfers. (Express)

• Former Airdrie United goalkeeper Paul McKane has joined Forfar Athletic until the end of the season. (Express)

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