PFA warn Pompey over future payments

08 January 2010 08:53

Portsmouth's players finally received their wages for December amid a stinging rebuke from the Professional Footballers' Association.

The club paid its players after obtaining more funds to ensure the long-running issue was resolved.

But senior PFA executive Nick Cusack warned that the club cannot keep delaying the payment of wages and was determined to try and ensure that it would not happen again. "Portsmouth cannot carry on like this," he said.

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"I am sure the people we are talking to are honourable and want to sort it out, but there is a lack of information about how the club is being run, how the players are being paid and whether they will be paid in the future.

"We must find out whether the players will be in this position next month, and indeed throughout the season."

Portsmouth's precarious financial position was underlined further by the fact that the club's owners only just managed to obtain funds to pay the players in the last two days.

Chief executive Peter Storrie said: "Obviously it is not the best scenario in the world to have this situation happening but obviously finance is a major problem in world market at the moment.

"The owners are trying everything they can and they obviously managed to find this in the last couple of days."

Source: PA