BARRY Town have effectively until tomorrow night to settle their £10,000 debt with Newport County and end the Mike Flynn transfer saga or face being wound up.

County's board of directors, who gave Wales' top club side until last Friday to pay up, claim they have heard nothing from Barry.

The board will convene at Newport Stadium tomorrow evening where they are expected to unanimously agree to start legal proceedings against the Dragons, an action which, if successful, would banish Barry from football.

County's lawyers should set the legal cogs in motion on Wednesday morning.

There have been suggestions that County need their sell-on money from Flynn's £15,000 move to second division Wigan Athletic because the Exiles are in financial difficulty.

But Newport chairman, Wallace Brown, flatly quashed those rumours, insisting: "They simply owe us money. They should have paid us months ago.

"Newport County are on a sound financial footing."

Welsh double winners Town owed County £10,000 because when Flynn joined Barry on a free transfer in November 2000, the Dr Marten's Premier League side added a sell-on clause of either 40 per cent or £10,000, whichever sum was greater, on any subsequent move.

And Flynn's £15,000 switch to the JJB Stadium in June activated that clause.

Now six months later, County are insistent they want their cash and while Barry chairman Kevin Green won't discuss transfer deals, he did say that County would eventually get their money.

It has also emerged that 21-year-old Flynn, a Newport-born midfielder, is himself owed £2,000 in wages and bonuses - plus his P45 from Barry - and Green insists that will also be settled soon.

But Newport, who issued Barry with a statutory demand on October 31, want action not words as new boss Peter Nicholas might require funds to start bringing in fresh faces.