Source: Team_Talk
Jones: Admin was not on the cards
The South Wales outfit were facing their second winding-up order in relation to an unpaid tax bill to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs believed to be in the region of £2.7million.[LNB]The order was adjourned for 28 days after £1m was paid in part settlement of the debt, with the remaining amount due over the next four weeks.[LNB]Cardiff chairman and chief executive Peter Ridsdale was in court to hear of the extension which, considering the worst-case scenarios on offer, represents good news for the club.[LNB]Administration and a 10-point deduction was potentially on the horizon should the winding-up order have been made, but Jones insists that was never going to be the case.[LNB]"I was assured before yesterday that that wasn't going to happen, and that seems to have gone through now," he said.[LNB]"But we're not looking at that, we're still trying to do our best and keep going.[LNB]"It is difficult times for this football club all the way through."[LNB]Off-the-pitch matters have come as an unwelcome distraction for a Cardiff side riding high in the Championship and focused on securing promotion to the Premier League for the first time in their history.[LNB]Next up this weekend is a trip to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea in the FA Cup fifth round, a clash for which Jones is struggling with a host of injury problems.[LNB]The Liverpool-born boss was promised funds - estimated to be around £3m - to bolster his squad in the January transfer window following a resounding response from Cardiff fans in taking up a 2010/11 promotional season ticket offer.[LNB]But having submitted his list of targets to the powers that be, it emerged potential investment had collapsed and that money was instead required to improve the cash-strapped club's financial well-being.[LNB]With many Bluebirds fans seething at the situation, Jones has been left to battle on with a threadbare squad over the remainder of the campaign, but he had nothing but praise for his players.[LNB]"We're asking the same bunch to go game in, game out and be at their best and when we're at our best we're a match for anybody," he said.[LNB]"But you're asking them to go three games a week, while listening to managers all the way through the division complaining they haven't got the players in they would like.[LNB]"We would have liked to have one or two in but we haven't.[LNB]"We get on with it and I'm really proud of my players because they're giving everything they've got."[LNB][LNB]
