Portsmouth 'walked away' from two deals - Cullen

Portsmouth CEO Andrew Cullen has revealed that the Blues walked away from two deals in January after making "substantial bids".

The Portsmouth recruitment team had a busy transfer deadline day, selling Callum Lang as well as signing Jacob Brown, Gustavo Caballero and Madiodio Dia.

But when reflecting on the buisness completed throughout the window, Cullen was left rueing what could have been with some players that did not end up joining.

"We made significant and substantial bids for other players," Cullen told BBC Radio Solent.

"In the cases of two of them we reached the figure the clubs wanted but ultimately they kept asking for more and more so we walked away from the deals.

"Those two players we will revisit them in the summer because they are two indivividuals we hold a strong interest in."

Throughout the window Pompey signed seven new faces, with three players leaving the club as Min-Hyeok Yang was recalled to Tottenham, Lang's departure was confirmed late and Tom McIntyre had his contract terminated by mutual concent.

The Blues now turn their attention to maintaining their Championship status for the rest of the season, currently 20th in the table, one point above the bottom three.

"The difficulty of the January transfer window is that it's very difficult to get deals across the line because clubs don't want to sell where as it would be more realistic in the summer," Cullen added.

"But with the window we feel good because our objective was to come out stronger than when we went into it and we believe that objective has been achieved.

"We'll now find out if it was at the end of the season."