Portsmouth are being forced to be patient over cash disputes for Sulley Muntari and Asmir Begovic. The Blues have been in a long-running dispute with Tottenham over a £1m sell-on fee for keeper Begovic, despite him joining Stoke last January.

Chief executive David Lampitt said: "We're in the legal process and I think a hearing has been scheduled for some point in March."

Pompey have gone to Fifa in a bid to collect 1m euros for Muntari, who left for Inter Milan in the summer of 2008.

Lampitt said: "We've gone to Fifa and I hope it will be settled before the end of the season. It's frustrating."