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Chester have responded to the transfer embargo placed on them by calling the PFA 'shabby' in a carefully worded statement.
Director Bob Gray issued the following statement: "All the current players who are contracted for next season have been paid up to date.
"It has been widely publicised that we are in dispute with Paul Butler and Tony Dinning and we have made arrangements to meet officials of the Football League to sort out this shambles.
I think it is shabby that the PFA have seen fit to release a statement on their website, when they are in full possession of the details of our proposed meeting. We have taken legal advice and we shall vigorously defend our stance in the Butler/Dinning dispute."
Chester announced that Butler and Dinning were suspended in April over a 'serious breach of club discipline' with the pair allegedly tapping up players for moves to Inverness - a suggestion laughed off by the SPL side's boss Craig Brewster. Both have 12 months left on their contracts and have not been formally sacked.
Gray's statement specifies that the players contracted for next season have been paid, but no more. Chester released seven players in May who they have a responsibility to pay until at least July 1st and these, plus Dinning and Butler, are likely to be the players the PFA are referring to.
