Dowie blasts Oldham owner

Dowie is furious with Moore

Oldham boss Iain Dowie has accused owner Chris Moore of "ripping the heart out of the club".

Dowie has had to watch three key players - Clint Hill, Fitz Hall and Tony Carss - leave Boundary Park in the past two days.

And he believes Moore is try to undermine his position as manager of the cash-strapped club.

"He (Moore) wants to leave us in the biggest mess he can and is doing his level best to drag us to our knees," Dowie told the Manchester Evening News.

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"Chris Moore wanted me sacked as part of a rescue deal and has said 'let's see how good Iain Dowie is without his best players'.

"These have been dark days and they are being made worse by a man who seems to be hell-bent on leaving a club stripped of its most valuable assets."

Moore insists that he has no choice but to sell-off Oldham's best assets in an attempt to save the club which is losing £50,000 a week.

The immediate need is to pay staff, and there's plenty in the pot to do so Chris Moore Oldham owner

But Oldham's beleaguered staff still intend to confront Moore about his decision to pull the plug on on a deal to rescue the Boundary Park club.

Players and administration staff have not been paid for six weeks.

And on Monday evening, Moore is believed to have pulled out of a survival plan at the 11th hour because it meant he would have had to pay their wages.

However, Moore has denied a deal was agreed and insisted the club now had enough money to pay all employees.

"The claims coming out of the club are absolute rubbish," Moore told the Oldham Chronicle.

"We discussed options on Friday but no papers I agreed with fully were ever drawn up.

"The immediate need is to pay staff, and there's plenty in the pot to do so.

"I was even willing to put in up to £200,000 of my own as a personal gesture, but now I'm very reluctant to deal with this buy-out."

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