Fratton Park has become a rehabilitation home of sorts, where out-of-favour footballers arrive and swiftly restore their self-confidence under the watchful eye of Harry Redknapp. Indeed, Portsmouth have built a very handsome squad as a result of talented players making the switch from so-called bigger clubs to a place which is slowly starting to imprint […]

Fratton Park has become something of a rehab club for many players. The likes of David James, Sol Campbell, Glen Johnson, Lassana Diarra, Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe have all signed for Harry Redknapp’s team and kickstarted their footballing career as a result. The Portsmouth manager seems to get the best out of these players […]

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Studs Up takes a look at Aston Villa and Tottenham, two Premier League scamps sticking it to the Big Four by digging their heels in and refusing to let their star players leave without huge vats of cash in compensation. […]

Harry Redknapp is probably the Premier League manager who most likes to bang on about how small his squad is. While others are probably equally, if not more, concerned by the need to strengthen in certain areas of the pitch, they don’t rabbit on about it like the Portsmouth gaffer. Thankfully, it appears that two […]

Rafa wants cash and he isn’t afraid to sell off squad players in order to finance new investments. With that in mind, it appears one flop is heading for the exit as Portsmouth and Blackburn begin a bidding war.

Only weeks to go until we have a brand new season to salivate over, but until then, all we can do is speculate and predict.

One Wenger target makes noises that will encourage the Gunners boss greatly!

That’s what many people are asking, after seeing Robbie Keane join Liverpool for a deal which could be worth £20.3 million to the White Hart Lane club. With the future of Dimitar Berbatov far from certain, Spurs are going to look pretty threadbare next season, especially when you consider that this time last year, they […]

As one door closes, another one opens for Pompey, who are becoming renowned for signing players that are surplus to requirements at other Premier League clubs. Although Portsmouth fans will be disappointed to see Sulley Muntari leave Inter this summer, the £11 million that the club receive for the midfielder will be enough to land […]

So what does that make Pompey? However, before you assume that these words came from the not insubstantial mouth of Lassana Diarra, they were actually uttered by one of his team-mates, who appears to be on the verge of signing for Inter.