Palermo chief executive Rino Foschi says the club have not completed a deal to sell defender Cristian Zaccardo to VfL Wolfsburg, despite the Bundesliga club having announced the signing on their website.

"I don't understand how the German club can have said it is official," he said.

"Obviously, they have reached an agreement with the player but still not with us. Even on thefigures there is nothing certain."

Wolfsburg had said the 26-year-old, a member of the Italy squad that won the World Cup in Germany two years ago, would sign a contract running until 2011.

German media has suggested Wolfsburg were prepared to pay a transfer fee in the region of eight million euros.

Zaccardo was a product of the youth system at Bologna, and moved to Palermo in 2004.

Reuters