Leicester chairman Milan Mandaric has denied reports he will leave his post to take over Portsmouth.
Foxes chief happy to stay at Walkers Stadium
Leicester chairman Milan Mandaric has denied reports he will leave his post to take over former club Portsmouth.
The Serbian businessman spent eight years in charge at Fratton Park and aided their promotion to the Premier League before leaving in 2006.
He then took over the Foxes in 2008, but after the Asia Football Investments consortium buy-out in August, he has had less of an involvement in matters and was rumoured to be ready to move on.
However Mandaric insisted he was committed to Leicester and vowed to stay at the Walkers Stadium for as long as his services were required and that, despite Pompey's obvious deep financial plight, he was powerless to help.
Going nowhere
"I am going nowhere and I am chairman of Leicester City," Mandaric told the
Leicester Mercury.
"I have always said there is no secret that I sympathise and have a good relationship with Portsmouth and their supporters, but there is nothing I can do about their situation. It is their own problems and they have to sort them out themselves. It has nothing to do with me.
"I am not leaving, I am staying here. I am not going anywhere. It would be unfair on these people because I have made my commitment to them. Why leave Leicester? I am not leaving.
"I might stay here for the next two years, it might be longer and may be a lot less than that. But I am not going to leave until these new people have a really strong relationship with the club. I am not going to leave until there has been some good transition time."
