WANDERERS life president and former owner Eddie Davies believes Phil Parkinson is the right man to lead the club forward.

The Isle of Man-based businessman, who grew up in Little Lever, threw his support behind Parkinson in a radio interview aired this afternoon on TalkSport.

Davies claims the manager’s “hands had been tied” during the long ownership wrangles between Ken Anderson and Dean Holdsworth – the men who bought his majority share of the club in March 2016.

“There have been a lot of issues which have had to be sorted out off the pitch which resulted in an embargo, which has just been lifted now,” he said.

“Ken Anderson has sorted out a deal to buy Dean Holdsworth’s shares, sorted out the BluMarble loan and that has restricted Phil Parkinson to some degree until we got the embargo lifted.

“Even so, I think Phil has done a good job. We just have to get our act together and start scoring goals. You only have to look at the statistics to see where the problem is.”

Asked if he thought Parkinson was the right man for the job, the 71-year-old answered: “That’s what we think and that’s the consensus within the club.”

Davies remains confident there is enough time remaining in the season to correct Wanderers’ course, which has thus far seen them fail to win a single game.

“We have still got headroom to get out of this situation and at the end of the day we’re playing in a mini-league at the bottom, we have only got to finish fourth from bottom and we’ve had a successful season.

“It has been more complicated because we have had a rash of injuries. We have got lads coming back – Josh Vela and Sammy Ameobi – who we really need.

“But at the moment we’ve got about nine players out of a squad of 23 – I’m not complaining or making that as an excuse, it’s just another factor in the equation.”

Davies says he is kept abreast of the latest information at Wanderers at board level but says his days of bankrolling the club – he claims to the tune of £180million in the books – are over.

“Ken Anderson keeps me up to date on what’s going on, at least at the stadium level, but the way we are looking at it is we’d rather be in this position after nine games than with nine games to go.

“I’d still do anything to try and help them, within reason. I’ve done my stint of putting in massive sums of money now, it’s for someone else to pick the baton up and run with it. I’ll give them all the help I possibly can.”