Portsmouth have turned down deadline day offers for Jason Pearce from three different Championship clubs, including from Town, according to reports on the south coast. The Blues are trying to land the central defender and team-mates Joel Ward and Stephen Henderson before the window closes at 11pm this evening.

Town are continuing to talk to Pompey, with their parent company Convers Sports Initiatives’ administrator also involved in the discussions. Negotiations - and bidding - is set to run right to this evening’s deadline with all three Blues targets understood to have been at training at Portsmouth’s training ground this morning.

The Hampshire club need to sell players due their ongoing financial problems which saw them issued with a winding-up order last week with a court hearing set for February 20th, their bank accounts frozen and players not paid.

Australian winger Ryan Williams looks set to join Fulham for £500,000 but they would appear to need to raise significantly more than that with HMRC owed £1.6 million in unpaid PAYE.

Even if all aspects of the deal (or deals) aren’t sorted before tonight’s deadline, Town have previously signed players such as Alan Quinn and Jon Stead on loan initially with the details of a permanent switch completed in the days afterwards.

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bedsitfc added 17:18 - Jan 31 the only person that needs to be show the door is marcus evans wife for holding onto the purse strings to tightly.
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punch_bowl added 17:23 - Jan 31 what a load of s***, we was told we would have 2 players in before Birmingham match...never happened....getting fed up with hearing so much hype but no action....ITFC not the club it used to be!
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ruffcider added 17:25 - Jan 31 Theres talk of Tottenham being interested in Pearce
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alfromcol added 17:29 - Jan 31 More gloom and doom here. Don't give up completely folks a win tonight and we will be flying! Hopefully the Sun will still rise in the morning.
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ipswich61 added 17:33 - Jan 31 the sun rises every morning wheather you can see it or not is another matter
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irishtim added 17:39 - Jan 31 casanovacrow: Dont think we ever had plan B. If we lose our next two if he is any kind of decent bloke he should walk. knowing us prob beat west ham @ lose the next 7.
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robdaful added 19:01 - Jan 31 Money talks so lets bid more. I'd imagine our bid was low anyway.
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Warkys_Tash added 22:45 - Jan 31 Can't see how they think they can afford to turn down the offers? Crazy. Lets wait and see what happens to Pompey then! Pearce didn't want to come here anyway so it would have been in vain, just like Collins or St Ledger or Sharp. So lets forget players who don't want to come and we move on.
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