The Pompey chief executive appears to have little or no idea whether the situation is likely to improve, saying of the club's failure to pay wages: "I would imagine it is a blip." And ED would imagine the players would want greater assurances than that.
Storrie added: "Whatever we spend on a monthly basis comes channelled through from the new owner.
"He has promised to re-finance, and he has shown me all the documentation, but I have no idea about the conditions of the £50 million he says will be arriving in a few weeks."
The Al-Fahim takeover will probably be the final nail in the coffin of the Premier League's much-derided Fit and Proper Person test, and rightly so.
How can a club owner be deemed fit and proper when his own chief executive is in the dark about where the money is coming from?
Al-Fahim might well be completely legit, but if the people working closest to him don't know, then clearly the Premier League has failed to do a proper vetting job.
On current form, if Pompey do slip into administration, the consequent 10-point penalty could see them become the first team to finish a Premier League season in with a negative points total.
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