Cobb today insisted all players and staff had been paid, as revealed earlier today by FourFourTwo, and also said superannuation payments were now up to date too.

But after meeting with Football Federation Australia, he admitted the owners were almost $700,000 short of the cash resources he had been promised to recapitalise the club.

And Cobb warned the club's planned move to Ballymore is now hanging in the balance until the cash is made available.

“I have briefed the FFA and Professional Footballers Australia to assure them that player, coach and administration staff wages and superannuation are up to date," said Cobb.

“Today’s meeting with FFA was brought about by a default from the Bakrie Group on the recapitalisation of the club.

“I agreed to come in as Managing Director in order to stabilise the club on the condition that a $1.1 million dollar injection in to the club was provided on July 1 2016.

“As of today, in regards to that payment, only $405,000 has been provided. This has a significant impact on the club moving forward and in particular our move to Ballymore.

“Discussions are now taking place with the The Bakrie Group about how this situation will be rectified. I will keep all stakeholders including the FFA and PFA informed over the coming days.”

Yesterday the FFA warned the Bakries to sort out their financial problems after staff at the club again went unpaid. Earlier today, the club claimed that had been a "technical error".

FFA CEO David Gllop warned yesterday though: "We have received firm undertakings from the owners and the current managing director about a recapitalisation of the club’s operations.

“We expect these undertakings to be delivered, and so do the players, coaches, members, sponsors and all in the Roar family.

 “We’ve seen late payments a number of times over the past year, but FFA can’t be expected to tolerate that as the normal state of affairs for Brisbane Roar.”