Portsmouth lumbered with transfer ban

Portsmouth banned from signing any players by Premier League until club settles debts with other Premier League sides
Portsmouth banned from signing any players by Premier League until club settles debts with other Premier League sides
 
 

Wednesday, 28, Oct 2009 02:25

By inthenews.co.uk staff..

Premier League basement boys Portsmouth have been banned from signing any players until they clear debts owed to other English clubs.

This week the Premier League prevented Pompey boss Paul Hart from signing free agent Eugen Bopp.

And today a spokesman confirmed that the club had been hit with a total transfer embargo until it settled existing transfer debts, thought to include the purchase of Lassana Diarra, now at Real Madrid, from Arsenal in January 2008.

"We can confirm that there is an embargo on Portsmouth registering any new players," spokesman Dan Johnson said.

Hart, whose club are bottom of the Premier League with four points from ten games, had tried to sign German midfielder Bopp, who he managed at Nottingham Forest, on a free transfer after he was released from his contract at Crewe.

The transfer embargo is the latest stage in a tumultuous season for the south coast strugglers that has seen ownership change hands twice, most of the senior playing staff leave and the club lose their first seven league games.

Current owner Ali al-Faraj, a Saudi businessman, is reportedly looking to sell the club as quickly as possible.

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