Portsmouth captain Aaron Mokoena has demanded crisis talks with the club's owners.
Pompey skipper calls for transparency
Portsmouth captain Aaron Mokoena has demanded crisis talks with the club's owners having long-since grown exasperated with life on the South Coast.
The financially-stricken outfit have paid their players late three times in the past four months and according to Mokoena, owner Ali Al Faraj remains a shadowy figure.
Mokoena claims Portsmouth's players have still to meet the Saudi Arabian businessman since he took over the club three months ago.
Branding the club's current state as 'chaos' the 29-year-old is desperate for there to be more transparency.
"It's chaos. No-one knows what's happening and it's destabilising the players," he lamented in the
Daily Star.
"This club needs to be saved and to stay in the Premier League.
"The players feel we need to be told what the situation is so we can focus on that.
"We haven't met the new owners and we don't really know who they are exactly.
"It's unacceptable that I'm playing for Portsmouth but I don't know who the owner is!
"I'm shocked by it. If you buy a club, you should meet the staff. But it hasn't happened and I can't see it happening any time soon.
"We have a mountain to climb. We just hope we don't lose any players."
Mokoena's pleas have been echoed by PFA chief Gordon Taylor, who has called on Al Faraj to be up front about the club's financial problems.
PFA backing
Taylor believes Al Faraj, who has yet to visit Fratton Park, needs to make himself more visible over the coming weeks.
Taylor said: "It's always a possibility when you see that clubs over-reach themselves. But you do like clubs to be in the ownership of people who are prepared to declare their interests and be up front about it and you want them to be football lovers involved for the right reasons.
"Now that may well be the case but there's a lack of evidence of that, not just at Portsmouth but with other clubs as well, so that gives you cause for concern.
"Not even knowing the amount of money they're in debt pretty well summed up the situation that is causing a great deal of concern to the supporters and it's a club with a great past - and having said that they won the cup not too long ago
"It's in a mess and it's like the Oscar Wilde quote - once is unfortunate, twice looks like carelessness and we're into the third time they have been late with wages.
"It's not what you expect of a Premier League club and that's why the Premier League is so concerned about the situation."
