Portsmouth Football Club News

Pompey executive chairman Peter Storrie has spoken out about the media speculation concerning the club's finances and poured cold water on rumours of a firesale at Fratton Park in the January transfer window. He said: Quite simply the media speculation is a load of rubbish. The club is not in any financial difficulty. Yes, we are up for sale, but so are about a third of Premier League clubs. Sacha Gaydamak will only sell to a buyer who is prepared to invest and take the club to the next level. If that doesn’t happen he will continue to support Portsmouth Football Club in the same way that he has for the past three years. Having sold Lassana Diarra to Real Madrid we do not have to sell any more players. “Jermain Defoe seems to want to leave and Tony Adams said publicly on the day he took the manager's job that he only wants players here who want to play for the club. Should we sell Jermain it will only be at the right price. Spurs are clearly interested but if they want him they will have to match our valuation. It will be on our terms. And if he goes, he will be the only one and he will be replaced. “Even then it will be up to Tony, so I don't envisage any other movement out except for some players who are out of contract at the end of the season and are not figuring in the first team squad. We have already secured the permanent signing of Nadir Belhadj and Tony and I are working on getting some other new faces in as quickly as we can to bolster the squad. “We are also in the process of offering new deals to some of the players who are out of contract at the end of the season.

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