Source: PA
Parker calls out for Wednesday suitors
Sheffield Wednesday chief executive Nick Parker has called for potential buyers to step forward after the club avoided a winding-up order by being granted a 28-day adjournment by the High Court.
The npower League One club were in court in relation to an unpaid PAYE bill of £600,000 and Mr Registrar Jacques granted the club an extra four weeks after their lawyers claimed it was on the "verge" of a takeover deal with a consortium of local businessmen.
However, the Owls are facing a separate order relating to a hefty debt owed to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
And a furious Parker is desperate for genuinely interested parties to get a deal done and insists the club going into administration will not represent a better deal for the suitors.
"I am very relieved but more importantly I am very, very angry," he said outside the High Court in London. "This club should not be where it is today. Do not believe 28 days - the real deadline for the club is December 1 when that extra petition comes on board.
"It's now time for those people - they know who they are and I know who they are - to step forward in private and do a deal with the bank and no longer shilly-shally and make excuses for doing it."
