Today's top rumour

With just a short time to go until Portsmouth FC is to be taken over (or not) the lovely press are putting Peter Crouch up for sale, that's nice of them.

From the Sunderland Echo ,Sunderland target Peter Crouch is now officially up for grabs at Portsmouth, with his agent signalling for the first time that the player will leave Fratton Park...............Crouch's agent, Jonathan Barnett said: "I think Portsmouth have financial problems and I think every player is available.
"He doesn't feel been let down, though – he has a great relationship with Portsmouth.

"He's a Portsmouth player, he likes the club and thinks a lot of chief executive Peter Storrie and manager Paul Hart.

"He is happy, but if there are circumstances where he has to move, that is football I'm afraid.

"He's still on holiday at the moment and has been given a few more days off by the club because he has been playing for England.

"There's nothing untoward about that – all the England team are allowed a bit longer off.

"But if Portsmouth were to receive an offer from somebody then we would have to listen to it.'

Pompey have remained tight-lipped over the future of their players after they returned to training yesterday.

Executive chairman Peter Storrie is keeping a low profile until Al Fahim's protracted takeover is sealed.

The message boards are going a bit nuts at the moment with the word Asset Stripping and such like, the doom and gloom love this one picking out the "I think every player is available" bit.

We are so close to knowing what is going on at Pompey but yet it seems so far away.

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