After having a Transfer Window embargo placed on the club this past October after being reported to the Premier League over players salaries not being paid, Portsmouth have once again found themselves under scrutiny for failing to pay wages.

Via Guardian

Avram Grant’s first-team squad were due to receive their November pay packets on Monday and, although some of them have seen the money enter into their accounts, the majority have not. The club have promised that the situation will be rectified in the coming days. It is the latest episode to undermine morale at Fratton Park and comes ahead of what the players described as tomorrow’s must-win home match with Burnley.

The club now face a bill of between £5m-10m by the end of January on the next series of instalments; the transfers in question involve Johnson, Mike Williamson, John Utaka and Younes Kaboul, among others. They must demonstrate to the Premier League how they intend to pay these monies, before the transfer embargo can be lifted, and their inability to meet the requirement of their players’ wages has hardly inspired confidence. Grant has said that he needs new signings and he also stands to lose five players to next month’s African Cup of Nations in Angola; Nadir Belhadj and Hassan Yebda (Algeria), Kanu (Nigeria), Kevin-Prince Boateng (Ghana) and Aruna Dindane (Ivory Coast).

Portsmouth’s previous owner Sulaiman al-Fahim was unseated after he failed to meet the squad’s salaries for September while his successor, Ali al-Faraj, secured a short-term loan from the Hong Kong-based businessman Balram Chainrai to pay October’s wages, totalling around £1.8m, and meet costs to the club’s other creditors.Faraj is still coming to terms with the structure of the club’s debts.

“Portsmouth FC can confirm that the majority of the first team squad have not yet received their November salaries,” said a spokesman. “A proportion of their wages will be paid tomorrow with the club’s new owners working towards paying the remainder over the next few days.”