Dundee chief executive Harry MacLean has urged the community to help save the club from extinction after they entered administration for the second time in seven years.
Bryan Jackson of administrators PKF, who has presided over Clydebank and Motherwell in recent years, is expected on Friday to tell the players, coaches and staff at the club who will lose their jobs after he was formally appointed on Thursday
MacLean told the club's official website: "I had to sign the papers to go to the Court of Session in Edinburgh and I was heartbroken as I signed them. But at the same time it's our only chance of survival and we have to go into survival mode for the next period of time."
He added: "We have to keep the cost of administration down and we've been working on several plans to help the administrator, and I've sat down with the administrator and gone through how it can work, but the final word is with him as to which route he follows.
"I'm convinced that we'll get through this. Our fans and the community won't let this club die.
"What everyone needs to realise, though, is that this is the start of the battle, not the end, we need all of our support behind us.
"And if people have pledged help then we need them to make good on those pledges."
Source: PA
