Lens tell Portsmouth to pay up

Portsmouth are being sued by French side Lens over unpaid transfer fees for striker Aruna Dindane and defender Nadir Belhadj. Lens claim Pompey went back on a deal to buy €4m-rated Dindane permanently once he played 11 games.

The Premier League’s bottom club, believed to be around €40m in debt, are claimed to have also failed to keep up their instalments for Belhadj’s €4.2m move.

Lens president Gervais Martel said: “We are working on it. The Portsmouth case is not only Dindane. It is also the money for Belhadj, which has not arrived. We are taking action against the club through the European football tribunals as well as the civil courts."

“We have to move forward on the assumption Portsmouth cannot afford to pay us. It’s a deal that has been done since he had to play 11 games to activate the option to buy. He has already played 11 games.”

The south-coast side are already subject to a Premier League transfer embargo over money owed to Chelsea, Watford and Rennes.

An offer of 4.5 million for KMP?

Olympiakos, the greek club, think of buying Kevin Monnet-Paquet during the winter period of transfer.

After being snubbed for the first time by Olympique de Marseille on Hatem Ben Arfa's file, the Piraeus club would be ready to activate the runway leading to the young striker of Lens, who has already been supervised three times a year by the Hellenic club.

If Olympiakos would definitely give up Ben Arfa, he could then put four and a half million euros on the table for the player formed in La Gaillette.

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