Portsmouth have not won for eight Premier League games but Pompey executive chairman Peter Storrie has dismissed speculation that boss Tony Adams is on the brink of being sacked. "Let's put a few things straight," said Storrie. "Firstly, there has been no board meeting to discuss the manager's position and there is not one planned. Of course, both Tony Adams and I have spoken to owner Alexandre Gaydamak.

"We do this on a regular basis and at the moment our priority has been focused on adding to the squad. We are all concerned at our current run of poor results, none more so than Tony and myself. However, it is important we all pull together and get behind Tony and the team.

"We are all in this together. From the board through to the coaching staff and players - we win together and we lose together.

"The reality is that the owner has decided to sell the club. Having invested more than £40million the club has won the FA Cup and enjoyed two seasons with top-10 finishes and he has now decided not to continue that investment. As a result we had to sell two players to put the club on an even footing financially.

"We have done that by selling Lassana Diarra to Real Madrid and Jermain Defoe to Tottenham. But there has been no fire-sale as was predicted.

"We have held on to the rest of the squad despite having enquiries for Peter Crouch, Glen Johnson and Sean Davis.

"These have all been rebuffed and we have also brought in five new players so far in January and turned Nadir Belhadj's loan into a permanent move.

"We all have our responsibilities. The board needs to make the right decisions off the field and the coaching staff need to get the tactics right and the players need to perform on the pitch."