Top scorer Daryl Clare is poised to leave Crawley, just days after chairman Chas Majeed promised fans he was staying.

Clare's representatives are in talks with other clubs following Majeed's decision to put all the players up for sale and cut wages in half due to financial problems.

Clare cost Reds a club record fee - believed to be around £40,000 - when he joined last September but he can now walk out for free because the club are in breach of his two-year contract.

According to the players' union the PFA, Reds' players can join teams at all levels outside the transfer window after serving a 14-day notice.

Majeed told supporters at an open meeting on Monday: "Daryl Clare is one of the players who plays with passion and for the club. He would stay even if I didn't pay him."

But Clare has confirmed to The Argus that his future is in doubt.

He said: "I'm in the same boat as all the other players at the moment. There is interest from other clubs and we are talking to Crawley about my future. I will know in the next 48 hours what is going to happen."

Peterborough head the queue of interested clubs. Clare lives near the League Two team and manager Steve Bleasdale worked with the Reds striker during his time at Chester.

Bleasdale said: "Daryl was awesome for us at Chester and I have made contact with Crawley to check his availability. I fancy he could be useful to us in the run-in."

Clare, 27, has scored 11 goals this season and is Crawley's most high profile player.

He would be the second player to walk out of the club in the wake of Majeed's controversial action following Simon Wormull's departure to Lewes last week.

More players are expected to leave before Saturday's crucial Conference bottom-of-the-table home game against Scarborough.

Meanwhile, the consortium bidding to oust Hastings United chairman Dave Walters are hoping fan power will persuade him to go.

The Hastings United Supporters' Club committee will call an extraordinary general meeting on a date to be confirmed.

The three-man consortium of Dave Ormerod, Roger Sinden and Bryan Warren will outline their proposals to fans for the running of the Ryman division one club if they seize control from Walters, the majority shareholder.

Sinden said: "The consortium is concerned about how decisions are made at the club. At the moment it is done unilaterally between two directors, one of whom is the majority shareholder.

"We want more accountability and democracy, more directors and new processes introduced at the club.

"We're going to meet with supporters' club members in public so we can set out our proposals for the club's future.

"It is a power struggle. Dave Walters has said he is willing to sell some of his shares but not concede his majority shareholding. We are hoping to get the backing of the supporters' club."

The consortium have already had one offer to buy out Walters' majority shareholding turned down.