Chester owner Stephen Vaughan has condemned the PFA after the Football League placed a transfer embargo on the club.

On Thursday the PFA released a statement saying that City had not paid the "majority" of their players for the past two months and that they had provided financial assistance to the club during that time and revealed that the Football League had placed an embargo on the League Two club until payments due to staff had been paid.

Chester announced they had signed former Yeovil midfielder Anthony Barry on Friday but his transfer - and the transfer of Vauxhall Motors striker Paul Davies - will not go through until the embargo is lifted.

Vaughan told the club's official website: "I am extremely angry about this article and I am determined to find out why it was written and who authorised it. We are in dispute with Tony Dinning and Paul Butler who we consider have acted in a way that is outside the remit of their contracts - this is what has possibly prompted the article.

"I think it is extremely disingenuous of the PFA to highlight this case on a public website and insinuate that all of our players have not been paid, which is totally untrue - we will be seeking an urgent meeting with the PFA and ask them for an explanation of why they see fit to place this information into the public arena."

Meanwhile, former Chester defender Sean Hessey - who was released at the end of last season - has joined fellow League Two side Macclesfield.