CLIFF Akurang is demanding an apology from Chelmsford City supremo Mansell Wallace after a bitter war of words broke out between the pair.
Akurang looked set to re-join the Clarets two weeks ago in a player-coach capacity from Bishop's Stortford but the deal turned sour at the last minute.
In last week's Chronicle, Wallace claimed Akurang had turned his back on the club after shaking hands on a return.
He also said the forward had demanded 'mega bucks' to undertake a coaching role despite previously agreeing to the same terms as last season and that he 'felt terribly let down'.
But this week the player has hit back. Akurang says the head of youth role he was offered at City was 'bogus' and that the amount of money he would receive in this new role had never been agreed.
In an astonishing broadside the 31-year-old forward also says that unless the City chairman says sorry he will 'expose further details' of unrest at the Blue Square Bet South club 'because the fans need to know'.
He told the Chronicle: "If Mansell is not willing to retract his statement then I will be encouraging people to tell the truth or I will do it for us.
"Key players left Chelmsford last season and have been released and what not and fans need to know the reasons why, because they're going to be coming up against these players and unnecessarily giving them grief for going when these people were backed in to a corner and forced out.
"The way football works is that if one club doesn't appreciate what you're doing for them and another one comes to you and they say: 'we will look after you and blah blah blah' then it's not a difficult decision."
The personal trainer from Braintree, who played for City last season, is keen to get into coaching after getting a taste of it last term when he worked free of charge alongside Bob Batchford with the Clarets' reserve team.
At 31-years-old he wants to make a start on his FA badges but he says he expected to be paid by City as both a player and a coach when he was offered the role of head of youth at a meeting at the ground two weeks ago.
"At that point the finer details were yet to be worked out," said Akurang.
"I didn't discuss money on purpose because I thought at some point the money they offered me as a player might affect what they can offer me as a coach."
He then spoke to Steve Bennett, the club's director of youth football, who, he claims, said the role he had been offered didn't exist. "It was a bogus job," said Akurang.
"I couldn't sign when there was not a proper role for me to go to. I thought I'd be clocking in at a certain time and doing certain hours but it didn't appear to be the case at all.
"They said I'd have to wait until the colleges came back (in September) and I said: 'that's fine but I can't sign anything'."
Then Wallace visited Akurang at his home in Braintree to sign the final paperwork and that's where negotiations fell apart.
"I don't know why they assumed that I was coming to do it for free," he said. "He's (Mansell Wallace) said I wanted mega money but there was no mega money about it. There's no club in our division that has mega money.
"I've been left very disappointed by the way I've been treated by the club and I know several others are too."
This week Wallace told the Chronicle: "I won't be saying sorry I just stated the facts.
"If he wants to enter in to a war of words then he does but I've drawn a line under it now. The club is bigger than Cliff Akurang."
