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We won't be signing him. I believe this link was from much earlier in the close season prior to us signing Davis and is just being rehashed. I would expect him to join Bolton.

Matt Phillips on the bench for Blackpool today

The start of their backtracking to appease their fans? Just paint the picture that Ramirez is the bad guy and they had no choice but to sell......

IMO Blackpool will only sell one of Phillips or Ince. I think it's a case of get in their first for our priority or miss out.

This is only relevant if Ramirez had taken a part time job as a waiter. If so, then it appears all credit should go to you for convincing him to join.

This was my thought also, hopefully we're both wrong!

Fair point, admittedly he did improve in the latter stages so saying the most of the game was perhaps a little harsh. I just know he can provide an exceptional standard and just felt he was a little over awed.

About as well a constructed response as your intelligence clearly suggests. I'm as happy and proud as everyone else about the result, just thought Adam was one of our weaker players and was highlighting an observation so get out of Adams arse. Finally, in case you forgot, forums are about opinion so if you don't agree say so but don't make a dickish response.....makes you look like a child.

Agreed, and coming out at half time he was asking Nasri if he could have his shirt at the end of the game. As soon as it was over he ran across and asked, only for Nasri to gesture to when they go off the pitch. I'll probably get shot down for this observation but I think he needs to focus a little bit more on the job in hand rather than who's shirt he can collect afterwards. If he had played a blinder admittedly this would be totally overlooked as I do understand the importance of the day in all their careers but he was like a rabbit caught in headlights for most of the game.

I think we can be pretty safe in the knowledge that we aren't going to buy people who don't have the right attitude. It seems top of the agenda for the whole recruitment team. He is exactly the sort of signing we've needed to make the new formation clicked into place. All we need now is a couple of defenders and I'll be over the moon with our business.

I see what you did there and I enjoyed it.

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Adam Johnson or Arjen Robben, god don't you know anything?!

That's entirely what I think. We are being used as a bargaining chip to force the hand of the likes of Spurs, Liverpool and Inter.

Gaston Ramirez.....don't believe a word of it

I'm not sure why people think this means we have replacements lined up. We aren't touting him out necessarily, it could simply be Charlton and Milwall making inquiries and us not proceeding until such time as we do have replacements. It's no secret we are after some CB's.

Having watched the Udinese highlights a few things caught my attention. Firstly, Steven Davis added much needed class to our midfield and had a calming influence, on first glance seems like a terrific signing. Sadly though we lacked a distinct cutting edge both in attack and defence, only further highlighting the belief that we are lacking one or top top quality players with big game experience. Also, Jay Rodriguez is absolutely wasted out on the left wing which is unfortunate, while I have doubts over Lambert's mobility to play as a loan front man. He seems very lethargic from what I've seen so far this pre season.....just me?

If rumours are to be believed he's handed it in to force through a move to Wet Spam.

This! Is the opening poster mental?! Nothing to do with the players pompey connections, it's simply that they are truly awful players.

This now seems very relevant http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/7967920/Secret-agent. It's clearly not Saints being spoken about as I'm pretty sure Buttner isn't an 'experienced Champions League player in Italy' however it goes to show that these surprise demands from 3rd parties, even club staff, are relative common place in football.

Only people who are completely and utterly blinded by their hatred of Pompey, pretty sad really.

I just can't see us getting Lens unfortunately.

Thanks, I'm interested how you know this? Are you ITK?

Going to try not to get excited about this one as I honestly don't think PSV will agree to sell for anything less than £10million.

This. One things for sure though, NA has a tough job on his hands keeping everyone happy and finding a settled side.