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Tosic waiting on Portsmouth move
Portsmouth, 11:11, February 4, 2010 ,
Serbian defender Dusko Tosic says he is waiting to secure a work permit before he can join Portsmouth on a free.
Despite all their off-field problems, Pompey can still sign free agents or players soon to be out of contract and they plan to do exactly that for Tosic, who has had his contract cancelled by German side Werder Bremen.
He was close to securing a loan switch to Duisburg but has now instead agreed an 18-month deal to join Pompey and is optimistic he will be given the clearance to sign on in the next few days.
"I have signed a deal for 18 months with Portsmouth FC, pending just the work permit," Tosic told Kicker-Sportmagazin.
"But there is a 99 per cent chance I will get permission for this."
He added: "It is true that I said I would join MSV Duisburg, but that was just in case I could not pick up an interest from another club before the deadline of the transfer window.
"I did, in fact, have an agreement with Portsmouth until Sunday evening and in Bremen they ended up frustrated because they had to change their agreement with MSV Duisburg because of this.
"I did not really have anything against MSV Duisburg, but I was wanting to join a better standard of league and a stronger club."