Rangers' administrators have admitted liquidation is a possibility for the Ibrox club under new owners.
Duff and Phelps have given a deadline of Wednesday for best and final bids, before choosing a preferred bidder.
In the running are Chicago-based Club 9 Sports, the Blue Knights, headed by former Ibrox director Paul Murray, and a Singapore consortium.
Hitherto, a move out of administration through a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) was the focus of the administrators, but they have now given serious credence to the possibility of the club having to be liquidated.
"The preferred option remains a CVA and it remains an option for all of the bidders," admitted co-administrator Paul Clark.
Toxicity
"And we still think it's achievable and we're still recommending that as the preferred course of action to the bidders.
"We must accept, though, that we have in Rangers a financially-stricken institution and there is an amount of toxicity in there as a result of what's gone on.
"So all of the options have to remain open and it may be that some of the bidders decide that they would rather start afresh.
"We cannot rule out the winning bid could prefer a different structure that meant the sale of the business to a new company and in that eventuality it is certainly possible that Rangers would be liquidated.
"But it would only be done so after the football club was made safe."
