The ailing Yorkshire club has extended its ‘standstill agreement’ with creditors for one more week.
Bottom of the Premiership, Leeds needed to raise £5m by January 30 to avoid going into administration.
However, the chief executive of the club, Trevor Birch, has now been given time to hold more talks into a possible £20m takeover bid.
Earlier this week Leeds’ players decided defer wage payments, a move worth millions.
The club have also sold England defender Danny Mills to Middlesbrough for £1.5m and excepted a final £1.5million for last year?s sale of Rio Ferdinand.
Ex-managers David O’Leary, Terry Venables and Peter Reid have all agreed to defer severance payments totalling £1million.
The Royal Mail’s Allan Leighton has been linked with a takeover bid.