Storrie confirms Pompey payment

07 January 2010 14:57

Chief executive Peter Storrie has confirmed Portsmouth's players will be paid on Thursday.

The Pompey squad are awaiting the arrival of December's salary but Storrie insists that the cash will be in their accounts after relevant funds were received by the club on Thursday morning.

Storrie told Sky Sports News: "As far as I am aware, everything is going through to their accounts today. Payment should be there, I am pleased to say. Obviously it is not the best scenario in the world to have this situation happening but obviously finance is a major problem in the world market at the moment."

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

"I am told funds were received this morning so therefore it's a question of the process, and however long that takes to go through, but I'm told it should all happen today."

Storrie also insisted players would not be sold on the cheap in order to help ease their financial crisis.

He added: "I've had one or two calls and I think one or two people think there is some sort of fire sale going on. That is not the case. If we have to sell players we'll sell them for their market price and not what people think is a knockdown price."

Source: PA