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Why are Portsmouth playing the dog & duck in a friendly?

I do wonder if there is a more incorrect, commonly used phrase in football. My experience is that players after breaking through are just as likely to regress than progress - in our case I’d say it’s more 80% that regress unfortunately for us. It sounds as though we are waiting on Marek Rodak...

Vickers Nyambe Nelson Cashin Wilson Adams Goudmijn Osborn Jackson Yates Mendez-Laing More interesting now, the defensive unit is more or less the same that finished last season so strongly with Adams signed. Nyambe was injured for large parts, so Bradley/Forsyth filled in. We conceded six...

The last we heard was Mat Ryan was heading to Derby to finalise his deal, via the AZ Alkmaar site that had been on top of the Goudmijn deal. Companied by a post on his Instagram saying ‘back to work’. All went quiet then it came out he’s going Roma (although not yet confirmed) so it seems we...

It looks like we’re signing Ebou Adams permanently, which is very good news for continuity going into next season. Relatively speaking, he’s most impactful signing we’ve made in 20 years and there was always a concern that Cardiff were going to monetise his value to us (rightfully, I may add)...

I agree, or at least very unlikely, he was firmly below average by almost every metric in Ligue 1 last season. The Championship is obviously a step down, but he’s been on a fairly drastic downswing in his career since 2019-20.

The only source that I trust when it comes to wages is companies house - any other financial talk even if directly from the club I will always take with a pinch of salt. The £17.2m included the costs for all 177 employees, of which 58 were playing staff. The clubs SCMP was actually one of the...

AZ Alkmaar only had a wage bill of just over £14m last season according to one BBC report which surprised me considering ours was £17.2m in League One with about 14 first team players in 22/23. Assuming he will be well compensated for leaving a side in Europe to join us but probably not as big...

We've had a couple confirmations through this morning, pending final paperwork: Kenzo Goudmijn on a four year deal, fee around £600k/€600k (one of them). He's an extremely technically gifted young midfielder who has impressed in Eredivisie whilst on loan at Excelsior and has a good...

Riis was on our books as an academy prospect, never even got remotely close to the first team. I was surprised when he came back to England and he’s obviously done well. Ironically, Timi Max Elsnik was in the same boat and it looks like he’s about to get a mega move to La Liga/Serie A. All...

By the sounds of it, a really good signing. Although with foreign imports you never really know until they get going - plenty of reasons to be excited.

It’s the same reporter who said he was coming to England and we bid, then we couldn’t get a deal done and QPR had a bid accepted and the latest he’s off to Preston. I wonder if he even knows which airport to get off at!

Turns out it’s QPR who are signing him.

I think he’s signing for us, we’ve had an ITK on this from about four weeks ago and while on international duty at the end of the season came to the training ground. He has since said that another team from the Championship ‘complicated’ the deal. The latest news from Denmark is that he’s...

Ebou Adams looks like it's getting closer to getting done, which would be a huge signing for us. He addressed so many issues we had in the squad last season and without him I doubt we even get promoted, absolutely no chance automatically anyway. He played 17 games and whilst on the pitch, we...

I really like the fit, think he will do really well for you. He’s been chronically mismanaged by us since Cocu left and I think a move was always on the cards, reading between the lines: wage bill - SCMP contribution (of which his, Birds and Knights wages weren’t included). I think he was on...

Louie Sibley has left the club, which is a huge disappointment. He was the very best of our team that won the U18 Premier League in 2018/19 and had things been different would've gone on to do amazing things in his career, that I'm absolutely positive about. Understandably, the ones that got...

I've updated based on our latest signings. Instead of getting relegated with 20pts, I would anticipate the above gets relegated with 30 points. I'm still hoping for 8-10 new signings through the door.

Maybe you're right, but I'm not sure how a decent season in League Two and a loan to the same team, albeit following promotion earns him £1m per annum contract which would've made him the highest paid player in League One. I don't think he was ever in that ball-park. Brighton aren't adverse to...

I really like Phillips, think he would be a good signing at this level as would Luca Connell from Barnsley. In terms of the quality in League One, honestly there isn’t a great deal in both boxes but there’s plenty of decent midfielders. Leonard was decent for Northampton, doubt the rumour...