CammRobb
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BBC wrote:

Portsmouth have been given special permission by the Premier League to sell players outside of the transfer window to ease their financial crisis.

Pompey, who had nine points deducted for going into administration, can sell stars on condition they cannot play for another Premier League club this term.

They have debts of about £60m and have laid off 81 staff to cut their costs.

Administrator Andrew Andronikou said: "This has given us an option, but we're not necessarily going to sell players."

Pompey are bottom of the Premier League and virtually certain to be relegated, but Andronikou said there was no immediate need for cash given the income generated by their run to the FA Cup semi-finals.

He added on Sky Sports News: "At the moment we don't necessarily need (the money from sales).

"We're looking forward to the semi-final and that's obviously given us working capital to play with.

"I've always said, we've had means within the club. So it's a window that's open to us."

The Premier League's decision is a turnaround after it rejected Pompey's initial plea in February.

But in a statement on Wednesday, the Premier League said it had reconsidered after a board meeting last week.

A Premier League statement read: "The Premier League board meeting that convened last week to consider the administration of Portsmouth FC dealt with a number of matters beyond just the application of the sporting sanction (deduction of nine points).

"In accordance with Premier League rules, postponement of the suspension of Portsmouth FC as a member club was conditional on a number of undertakings being given by the administrators.
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Bit of a let off for Pompey, I can't recall them letting Leeds, and other teams do this.
coke
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Yeah the fact that the many other lower league teams that have found themselves in the same predicament haven't been allowed to do this or something similar, strikes me as very unfair and blatant favouritism towards the Premier League teams. Yes I know they been docked points and then also fined for their missed payments of players, but to allow them to set this precedent in being allowed to carrier out transfers outside of the window after smaller clubs have gone completely under after not being allowed to do the same...

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