From Pompey official site :
Jerome Thomas’ loan move to Pompey has been made permanent.
The winger has signed a one-year contract with the Blues.
Pompey will pay Charlton a small fee if Thomas plays a certain number of games.
The deal frees up Pompey to bring in another loan signing before the transfer window if needed.
Premier League clubs may have a maximum of two loan signings at a time.
With Ben Sahar already on loan from Chelsea, Pompey had filled their quota when Thomas arrived on loan from Charlton last week.
Blues chief executive Peter Storrie said: “It’s a simple conversion from a loan deal to a permanent contract for a year. It frees up a loan space for us.
“Jerome could have been recalled by Charlton in January under the terms of his loan, but that’s no longer a factor now his deal has been made permanent.”
The 25-year-old made his Pompey debut when coming off the bench in the 4-0 opening-day defeat at Chelsea on Sunday.
The former England under-21 international made 119 appearances for Charlton, scoring seven goals, after signing from Arsenal in 2004.
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As for the fee, we were never likely to get much anyway because of his contract situation. Small fee now bugger all in the summer.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/England39s-Cranie-out-to-earn.4406938.jp
We've done ok out of this I think
Add that amount to the wages saved and I don't think that we have done too badly for a player who we bought for £100k.
They had a player on the books who refused to sign a new contract and would be a free agent in less than a year.
His attitude had been at times, shall we say, suspect.
On the park, the player had been woefully inconsistant and at best was a 'luxury' player.
He was one of the highest paid players at the club and his wages would have been regarded by the Board as an extravagence in the present financial climate.
As Rothko says, a loan fee would already have been received initially - so add on appearance increments, the fees are consistant with selling a player within his last year of contract who had not been particularly sought after by other clubs.
As Salad says, Harry now owes us one ...... so it seems logical there's a player coming this way soon from Portsmouth.
It also frees up budget for new signings - or at least a small warchest for January signings, if needed..
Never have I felt so annoyed at seeing a player in the red shirt than that tosser.
Have we managed to sell every semblance of quality on the squad now, or is there anyone else lurking that we can flog for a small fee? If so that would be great for the club too, I expect.
IMO the swaggering 'we're better than this' attitude hasn't just been the mantra of players like JT and Marcus Bunk - I think it's been a sentiment echoed on the terraces and maybe even in the boardroom.
We may not have a great season this year, but hopefully we'll have some hungry players who can play with a bt of desire.
Who knows where that might take us in the future? - my guess would be forward.
Good luck to Thomas but I certainly won't be shedding a tear that he's gone - nor that we didn't get a big fee for him.
One more big time Charlie out of the club and off the wage bill.
Good enough for me.
ZZ and maybe Fortune will go leaving Ambrose, Toddy and Weaver as our "quality" players and there are questions about the fitness of two of those.
On the other hand a "spine" of Weaver, Hudson, Ambrose and Toddy looks good on paper if not the pitch!
Fortunately he is still here and he has been astronomically more effective than Thomas, and now his hip is hopefully sorted out we might even see higher levels of performance from him, let's hope so.
Fortune has only ever been a cover player really and hopefully isn't on too much, although I was hoping he'd try to prove himself somewhere else this season.
As an additional thought Gray might be on a good screw too given that we were desperate and it was january when he signed.