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Portsmouth unimpressed with offers for Kevin-Prince Boateng
Offers for Ghanaian are way off Pompey's valuation
17 Jul 2010 18:28:00
By Gareth Lovell
Portsmouth administrator Andrew Andronikou feels offers for Kevin-Prince Boateng are a long way off their own valuation for the midfielder.
Pompey's financial troubles are well documented, with the club having become the first Premier League club to slip into administration during the 2009/10 campaign.
The financial problems still cast a dark cloud over Fratton Park, with the club full aware that they still have to sell their most prized players this summer in order to generate funds.
Midfielder Kevin-Prince, brother of Jerome, tops that list after an impressive display in the World Cup with Ghana.
Portsmouth had hoped that his displays in South Africa would help their efforts to bring in a sizeable fee, but Andronikou claims the exact opposite has proven to be the case.
He told The News: "It's war out there and it's frustrating."
"After the World Cup, Boateng's agent turned up with a mandate from someone offering us £2.8m. Yes, this was after the World Cup.
"This is the same agent who had earlier told us to keep the £120,000 he claims we owed Boateng and in return let him move for nothing. This is the rubbish I have to deal with.
"Boateng did excellently in the World Cup. If we do not get £5-6m there is something terribly wrong in the transfer market.
"The problem is there are people trying to rip us off. His agent has shown the club no respect whatsoever and the club is showing no respect back.
"He has even told me we should let Boateng go on the cheap because it would allow us to get rid of him and be to our benefit.
"The truth is there was interest in him before the World Cup - there has been 100 per cent more interest since.
"He is one of those talented midfielders that any club will make money from him just by having him there. We value him at £6m and will not let anybody get him on the cheap."
Boateng was the subject of much controversy in the 1–0 defeat to Chelsea in the 2010 FA Cup Final after he committed a foul on Michael Ballack causing ankle ligament damage which ruled the German captain out of the 2010 World Cup.
Boateng would go on to make history in the World Cup in South Africa along with his brother Jerome as they became the first siblings to feature in opposing teams at a World Cup, as his brother Jerome represented Germany.
Pompey's financial troubles are well documented, with the club having become the first Premier League club to slip into administration during the 2009/10 campaign.
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The financial problems still cast a dark cloud over Fratton Park, with the club full aware that they still have to sell their most prized players this summer in order to generate funds.
Midfielder Kevin-Prince, brother of Jerome, tops that list after an impressive display in the World Cup with Ghana.
Portsmouth had hoped that his displays in South Africa would help their efforts to bring in a sizeable fee, but Andronikou claims the exact opposite has proven to be the case.
He told The News: "It's war out there and it's frustrating."
"After the World Cup, Boateng's agent turned up with a mandate from someone offering us £2.8m. Yes, this was after the World Cup.
"This is the same agent who had earlier told us to keep the £120,000 he claims we owed Boateng and in return let him move for nothing. This is the rubbish I have to deal with.
"Boateng did excellently in the World Cup. If we do not get £5-6m there is something terribly wrong in the transfer market.
"The problem is there are people trying to rip us off. His agent has shown the club no respect whatsoever and the club is showing no respect back.
"He has even told me we should let Boateng go on the cheap because it would allow us to get rid of him and be to our benefit.
"The truth is there was interest in him before the World Cup - there has been 100 per cent more interest since.
"He is one of those talented midfielders that any club will make money from him just by having him there. We value him at £6m and will not let anybody get him on the cheap."
Boateng was the subject of much controversy in the 1–0 defeat to Chelsea in the 2010 FA Cup Final after he committed a foul on Michael Ballack causing ankle ligament damage which ruled the German captain out of the 2010 World Cup.
Boateng would go on to make history in the World Cup in South Africa along with his brother Jerome as they became the first siblings to feature in opposing teams at a World Cup, as his brother Jerome represented Germany.
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