"Charles Green should stop making quit threats and force change," says Paul Murray FORMER Rangers director Paul Murray has labelled Charles Green's threat to take the Ibrox club out of Scottish football "pointless" and urged him to instead focus his attention on removing those in power at the top of the game. Murray, whose joint bid with Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy to take control of Rangers was trumped by Green's consortium last year, was responding to the Yorkshire businessman's tirade against the proposals for a 12-12-18 league structure, which are set to be implemented for the start of the 2013-14 campaign. While Murray partly sympathises with Green's frustration at the prospect of Third Division leaders Rangers remaining in the bottom tier of Scottish league football next season, he believes the chief executive is in a strong position to effect wider-ranging changes in the game. The league reconstruction proposals have seen Stewart Regan, Neil Doncaster and David Longmuir - the respective chief executives of the Scottish FA, Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League - put on a united front. But Murray feels that the men in charge need to be replaced by new faces and has called on Green to play a key role in achieving that. "I'm not quite sure what threatening to leave [Scottish football] really achieves," said Murray. I know everyone is frustrated. The organisation of Scottish football is not good and needs to be changed. The people running the game have to be changed. But you can only do that from within. There's no point in threatening to leave if there are no options. I think he [Green] should try to use his position from within to try and engineer change. Rangers have got to look after their own interests first of all. Clearly, in any competitive sport you have to have people to play against. So you have to have an interest in the bigger picture as well. I wouldn't say Rangers have an obligation, but I think they are better suited to try to improve the game from within Scotland, as opposed to threatening to leave. I can partly understand his frustration. If we're using that era to try to rebuild bridges within Scottish football, I think Charles Green and the Rangers board should actually rise above some of things. No-one is more frustrated with what happened last year than me. With regard to leaving Scottish football, that's been discussed for many, many years. I'm sure there will be a restructuring of European football at some point but when that will be I don't think anyone knows. Charles Green and the Rangers board should be more focused on improving Scottish football from within. Ex-Rangers manager Alex McLeish expressed reservations about the reconstruction plans but hopes the club he led to seven major trophies can progress back to the top rather than seek pastures new. "It is quite a radical change," the Nottingham Forest manager told Sky Sports News. I don't know if it will revolutionise Scottish football. I hope it can be a turn for the better but I also hope Rangers can get some kind of move forward for themselves, rather than having to pull out of things. For Rangers still to be in the lowest division must obviously rankle quite a lot with them. I certainly think Rangers have got a valid grievance. Meanwhile, current manager Ally McCoist believes the worldwide coverage of Rangers" demotion to Scottish football's bottom tier can actually help him attract players to Ibrox. Rangers" fall from the Premier League and their re-emergence in the Third Division has attracted interest from around the world, with a number of foreign reporters present at media conferences and matches this season as Rangers begin their journey back to the top of the Scottish game. And McCoist hopes such widespread exposure can boost his chances of selling the club to potential signing targets. A transfer embargo means Rangers must wait until 1 September before they can register free agents - and January 2014 before buying players - but can negotiate pre-contract agreements this month. McCoist told the club's website: "We've got a massive list of players from all over the world which we are looking over at the moment. We're doing our groundwork early and we've got to do that. We can't register players until September but we've got to continue to scout. He added: "We've had camera crews and journalists here from all over the world and what is happening here has very much become a global story.