Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Pennant's Portsmouth Move Will Be A Loan From Liverpool

It was reported last week that Liverpool and Portsmouth had agreed a fee for winger Jermaine Pennant to make his move form Merseyside to Hampshire.

The 26-year-old is out of contract at Anfield at the end of the season, and Liverpool had invited offers for the player, resulting in interest from a clutch of clubs including Real Madrid, Sevilla, Wigan Athletic and Hull City.

It seemed that the player was definitely set to join Pompey manager Tony Adams down at Fratton Park, but now Setanta Sports are reporting that, should the deal actually go ahead, it is likely to be a loan move until the end of the season.

Questions seem to have been raised about Pennant's likely level of commitment to Pompey's cause and Adams has made it clear recently that he does not want passengers in his squad.

"I think the deal has been done with Liverpool and I'm going to speak to Jermaine at some stage and see how he feels about coming to Portsmouth," said Adams last week.

"If he doesn't want to, I won't take him on board. There are many players working hard, scrapping and holding it together."

The size of Pompey's reported bid is rumoured to have been around £3 million, but despite that being accepted, it now seems as though the player would really rather stay at Anfield.

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