 These are troubling times for Pompey and their manager
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Cash-strapped Portsmouth will complete payments to players and staff on Wednesday, BBC Sport understands.
Pompey have been late paying wages four times this season, but debts of £60m were helped with the £3.5m sale of goalkeeper Asmir Begovic on Monday.
The club also faces a winding-up order on 10 February for unpaid taxes.
Boss Avram Grant told BBC Sport: "It's not easy because we are bottom of the league and what's happened. We are just trying to do our job on the pitch."
The south coast club have been through a torrid time with their perilous financial position and have been forced into considering offloading their best players.
On transfer deadline day, their finances were helped to some extent thanks to a number of transactions.
These included Stoke completing a deal for keeper Begovic on a four-and-a-half-year contract, striker David Nugent's loan deal being extended at Burnley, while Tottenham re-signed central defender Younes Kaboul.
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Trouble has also developed off the pitch with chief executive Peter Storrie and Grant claiming last week that they had been unaware of negotiations concerning the sale of Kaboul and Begovic.
Grant, who took over the managerial reins in November, once again expressed his frustration with the ongoing problems but refused to walk away from Fratton Park.
"I'm not a quitter," the Israeli said. "I am not afraid of problems. For me, problems are a challenge and I came here with a big challenge.
"I'm very very disappointed with the situation and very disappointed with what people promised me. But this is the situation. The football side is better than I thought but other things are not what I expected."
Grant returned to Fratton Park in October last year when he was named as the club's director of football, a position he previously held in 2006-07 and became manager last year when Paul Hart was sacked following a poor start to the Premier League campaign.
Former defender Sol Campbell is also suing the club for £1.7m for unpaid image rights.
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