Lens agree to let Aruna Dindane play in FA Cup final

French club Lens will let on-loan Portsmouth striker Aruna Dindane play in the FA Cup final on 15 May after ending a dispute over payments.

Lens had insisted Pompey must pay £3.5m if the 29-year-old forward played another game for south coast club.

"Aruna in on his way back with a letter from Lens," Pompey's administrator Andrew Andronikou told BBC Sport.

"I've been told he can play the rest of our games - including the Chelsea final - and we won't have to pay any money."

The Ivory Coast international, who joined Lens from Belgian club Anderlecht in 2005, has been with Pompey since August and played in the 2-0 FA Cup semi-final win over Spurs, winning the penalty for Portsmouth's second goal.

That was his 21st game for Portsmouth, but a 22nd appearance would have triggered the additional payment under the terms of Dindane's loan deal, which is a sum that cash-strapped Pompey do not have.

Earlier in the season Lens were in dispute with Portsmouth over instalment payments involving Dindane's loan move as well as Nadir Belhadj's permanent transfer in December 2008.

Meanwhile, following the appointment of David Lampitt, the Football Association's head of football integrity as Portsmouth's new chief executive earlier in April, Andronikou is planning more boardroom changes.

When Pompey became the first Premier League club to enter administration earlier this year the club were labelled "completely dysfunctional".

Accountant Nick O'Reilly of Vantis, who had prepared the financial statement that Pompey had to submit to the High Court in February, said Pompey's business methods had gone "against all good governance".

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Portsmouth hit by more injuries ahead of FA Cup final

Portsmouth are facing a race against time to get key players fit for the FA Cup final against Chelsea on 15 May.

Midfielder Richard Hughes was distraught as he hobbled out of Saturday's 3-1 victory over Wolves at Fratton Park with a hamstring injury.

The problem looks almost certain to rule him out of the trip to Wembley.

Striker Aruna Dindane (groin) and defensive midfielder Aaron Mokoena (calf) were also replaced at half-time against Wolves.

They join Tal Ben-Haim (groin), Marc Wilson (hamstring), Ricardo Rocha (thigh), Angelos Basinas (hamstring), Jamie O'Hara (back), Hassan Yebda (thigh) and Nadir Belhadj (hamstring) in a packed treatment room.

Scotland international Hughes, 30, was not selected for the 2008 FA Cup final squad, and now looks set to miss out on Wembley again.

"I am sorry for Richard, because in the last two months he has been very good for us," said Pompey boss Avram Grant.

"It is a shame. He always gives 100%."

O'Hara, 23, was ineligible to face his parent club Tottenham in the semi-final, but is in line to be fit for the final.

The midfielder was at Fratton Park on Saturday to collect what was a clean sweep of Pompey's player-of-the-season awards.

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