ACCRINGTON Stanley boss John Coleman has admitted that working amid the club’s current ownership struggle is akin to being a child whose parents are going through a divorce.

Coleman and assistant manager Jimmy Bell last week agreed new lcontracts at Stanley, keeping them at the club until 2015, and are due to sign them in the next couple of days after the League Managers Association have double checked the fine print.

And the Reds boss has now urged Dave O’Neill, Ilyas Khan and Eric Whalley to stop arguing over the club’s future and come to an agreement.

Managing director O’Neill took over the running of Stanley from Whalley last summer but is yet to finalise his takeover of the former chairman’s majority shareholding, while benefactor Khan is at loggerheads with both over his plans to dilute their stakes and let fans run the club.

“My wish is that all parties should be recognised for what they’re doing for us,” said Coleman, who was the man who persuaded Khan to work alongside O’Neill as the Reds tried to emerge from last year’s financial crisis.

“No-one’s demeaning the club but they don’t seem to be pulling together. The big problem is there is no figurehead.

“Sometimes you feel like a child who is in the middle of a divorce and you want your parents to be friendly, and to an extent that’s the way it’s getting here.

“If you look at the three big players in the whole scenario I know they’ve all got Accrington’s interests at heart, but sometimes the way they go about it may be misguided.”