If this is true real questions need to be asked....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1260734/Portsmouth-offered-250-000-Spartak-Moscow-terminate-Quincy-Owusu-Abeyies-loan.html?ITO=1490
This ties in with Spartak offering £250k to get him back from loan. Pompey have paid the £500k and have a deal to keep him for the season. The £250k is their compensation for the loss of a player that they paid £500k to loan for X weeks.
The transfer embargo was only lifted for the last few days of January for loan or free transfers in order to stop large amounts of debt being added to an already large amount.
What is the point in saying we are only lifting it but you can only do frees and loans if they pay a £500,000 loan fee?
Two weeks after signing Tosic, Rocha and Quincy and paying their wages, Pompey ask for dispensation to sell players and make 85 staff redundant!