SALISBURY CITY’S future will decided by the end of this week but it won’t involve co-owner Mark Winter who has quit the ailing club.
Winter, a fan of the Whites, bought the club for £1 alongside Dubai-based businessman Otail Touzar in May and is understood to have put £75,000 into City.
Touzar, meanwhile, owns 98 per cent of the Conference South outfit but is yet to put a penny in and has been branded a ‘fraudster’ as well as being banned by the club.
The Whites were demoted from the Conference Premier for missing a deadline to pay football creditors and now have until this Friday, July 4 to pay off their debts and lodge a £50,000 bond with the Football Conference or face expulsion from the competition.
It is looking increasingly likely that City will go the same way as Hereford, who were themselves expelled from the Conference earlier this summer.
Departing Winter said: “I wish I could give you better news, but as it stands, unless there is radical movement, I expect Salisbury to be expelled from the conference on Friday (July 4).
“The HMRC winding up petition which needs to be paid shortly will then call closure on the club. Touzar would have the world believe he is working around the clock to save the club.
“The brutal truth is he has done nothing to help the club. We have tried everything in our power to reason with him, even offering him money to give the club back.
“As fans we need to face the real possibility that there will be no Salisbury City football club playing next season.”
Whites fans have already started planning for the worst, setting up a Facebook page called Salisbury City: We Aren’t Dead Yet and Winter added: “If there is an appetite for a phoenix club, count me in.”
Salisbury are also without a manager after boss Mikey Harris left last week to join League Two Portsmouth as a youth team coach.
