LASHINGS boss David Folb has revealed he has the financial muscle for his move to buy Maidstone United.

But a fed-up chairman Paul Bowden-Brown has accused Folb of acting in a "totally unprofessional" manner and scaring off potential investors.

He said: "I'm upset. I've been in charge through thick and thin and I repeat, the club is not for sale. We have not had uncertainty until now."

Bowden Brown said Folb's suggestion that the Lashing's boss should take over the football team while Bowden Brown runs development of the new town centre stadium had got back to the present managers.

"They've heard about this plan of his and they're not very happy. I'm fed up with all this gassing."

Folb's Lashings Cricket Club is in the process of signing sponsorship and partnership agreements worth close to £1m.

Folb said he hoped that Maidstone general manager Bill Williams and Lashings chief executive Andrew Fitch-Holland would meet soon to carry on talks. But Bowden Brown said no talks had been arranged or were planned.

Folb wants to take control of the football team and is prepared to use the financial muscle of the cricket club to support his bid. But the likelihood of a deal gets slimmer by the week as the two headstrong men conduct their talks through the press rather than face to face.

Folb denied he was not willing to pay to gain control of Maidstone, citing the Lashings cricket contracts as a source of revenue.