Portsmouth give wages assurance

02-02-2010

Cash-strapped Portsmouth will complete payments to players and staff on Wednesday, BBC Sport understands.

Pompey have been late paying wages four times this season, but debts of £60m were helped with the £3.5m sale of goalkeeper Asmir Begovic on Monday.

The club also faces a winding-up order on 10 February for unpaid taxes.

Boss Avram Grant told BBC Sport: "It's not easy because we are bottom of the league and what's happened. We are just trying to do our job on the pitch."

The south coast club have been through a torrid time with their perilous financial position and have been forced into considering offloading their best players.

On transfer deadline day, their finances were helped to some extent thanks to a number of transactions.

These included Stoke completing a deal for keeper Begovic on a four-and-a-half-year contract, striker David Nugent's loan deal being extended at Burnley, while Tottenham re-signed central defender Younes Kaboul.