Velimir Zajec quits Pompey

Director of football Velimir Zajec has resigned from Portsmouth for personal reasons.

Zajec joined the Fratton Park club last year and was caretaker manager between November 2004 and April 2005 after the resignation of Harry Redknapp.

The role for the former Panathinaikos manager was to scout for players and to improve the infrastructure at Pompey but Redknapp quit soon after his arrival.

Zajec told the club's official website: "These are very personal reasons and I wish them to remain that way.

"Portsmouth is a special club and I wish them every success for the future."

Pompey chairman Milan Mandaric said: "It is always difficult to lose a good person and I would like to wish him every success and happiness in the future."

Taken from TEAMtalk.com

Here are some more quotes from Milan

"It is not a shock, unfortunately he has been thinking about this for the last couple of months,"

"We are sorry to lose him, but it is personal reasons and we have to accept that. We are losing a good man.

"The main reason I brought him was because we needed stability, not a football manager but an administrator. He was the perfect man for that, but unfortunately it did not work. We have to look at how we replace him and how we move the club forward.

"There is no sense of urgency. The sense of urgency is to bring some points to the table. That is where we need to concentrate and right now I would like to give all my urgency and effort to support (manager) Alain (Perrin) and see what we can do. As far as replacing Velimir, we will think about that later."