Bob Garmory, of Pars United, says the fans' group is ready to submit a bid for Dunfermline and are hopeful a deal can be struck to take control at East End Park.

Pars administrator Bryan Jackson, of BDO, has set a deadline of tomorrow for offers for the Fife club. Those bids will then be presented to trade creditors at a meeting on Wednesday, with a 50% vote required to gain "preferred bidder" status.

Pars United or any other party which submits a successful offer – a mystery second bidder has been mooted – will then have just less than a month to raise the funds promised and present that to trade creditors at another meeting on July 12.

Of those creditors, 75% are required to formally accept the offer for the club to exit administration through a Creditors Voluntary Arrangement (CVA).

"We will certainly be ready," said Garmory. "We have been working tirelessly to be in a position to put forward an offer which would secure the club. We will do that on Tuesday.

"We have always known that we needed to put a number in swiftly, and we are acutely aware that Bryan Jackson will take that to the creditors and detail what it means. Hopefully, they are receptive to our bid.

"Bryan Jackson wants us to indicate that we will have the funds and that is understandable – he doesn't want to present something to the creditors and find out a few weeks down the line that we cannot meet the number we said. He wants proof and we are on track to do that."

Any potential takeover, however, is complicated by the fact that East End Park Ltd, the company which owns the stadium – and entirely separate from the football club – is also in administration, being overseen by KPMG.

Jackson and his KPMG counterpart, Blair Nimmo, are keen to sell both businesses in a "package" deal and, although the club is the priority, Pars United are attempting to factor the stadium into their offer.