Is Defoe on loan to pompy?

[worcestersauce]

That's entirely true. But let's imagine 10% of any transfer fee is payable to the agent, with a further cut to the player. Defoe & his new agent may not have been prepared to sanction a full transfer until the Andrew/new agent situation had been cleared up, because they don't want the equivalent of a million sterling going to Andrew. Hence a loan was agreed with 'Arry promising to make the transfer permanent once the agent situation was clarified.

With City refusing to ratify the Benjani transfer, suspecting 'Arry of fast tricks, this could end up being a problem. Especially if those useless nonces at the FA stick their noses in...

I take your point but would our club really let a player go with a nod to being paid whenever pompey felt like paying us which is in effect what you are proposing.
Alternatively would Pompey pay us £9m without getting full registrationof the player so that we could just take him back again?

I just don't wear it I'm afraid and I suspect neither does sky andews which is why he may be making a fuss.

Sky andrews has been sacked, he had no part in any of these negotiatins and he can't argue that Defoe used his expertise because his advice was to sit tight and not move which Jermain went against.

Edit: Sorry slickmongoose missed your link.

Just read through the bbc report and it seems to make it clear that it is just a procedural way of dong things at short notice sanctioned by the authorities so I am satisfied that it is permanent.
I also believe that the papers all know this but in spite of that made up another story on he back of the Benjani cock up.

 

[yanno]

I take your point but would our club really let a player go with a nod to being paid whenever pompey felt like paying us which is in effect what you are proposing.
Alternatively would Pompey pay us £9m without getting full registrationof the player so that we could just take him back again?

I'm not proposing anything. I'm simply trying to make sense of these newspaper reports which I suspect are not entirely without substance, but are almost certainly the result of partial leaks by interested parties - eg agents.

Pompey's official position seems to be:
"Defoe's transfer was done as an initial loan because of time restraints," said a Pompey spokesman.
"The full documents will be signed and registered this week and this is a standard method when you have little time."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/7225061.stm

But this is complicated by the Benjani position because despite being owned by the Mobski, Pompey appear to have cashflow problems if the Benjani deal doesn't go through.

I have to say the official Pompey position - that loans are routinely used to get round the transfer deadline and allow permanent transfers to be completed in early February - is entirely new to me. And does seem to make a mockery of a transfer deadline.

And, like you, I find it hard to imagine that Levy would be allowing a multi-million pound asset like Defoe to risk serious injury by playing for another club unless he was certain a full transfer had been concluded.

Something stinks here, and it's either Sky Andrew or 'Arry Redknapp. Or both.

 

[Kendall]

I reckon they've signed a legal document which gives them an obligation to buy.

 

[milkman]

Surely its too late to sign him now, he will remain on loan until the summer when they can actually sign him.. Maybe we should recall him back for the game vs pompey, and stick him in the reserves for a week!

 

[recklessyido]

Defoe is on loan. Pompy need the cash from Benjani deal. Dunno if that will come through now so Defoe could be on his way back to the lane soon

 

[Teemu]

I don't get it, he has to be going to Pompey permanently at some point. There would be absolutely no reason to send Defoe out on loan to a rival for Europe, while we lack a 4th striker and his contract winds down further. So what the BBC said about short notice etc has to be true, I'm pretty sure he won't be a Spurs player again.