Danbert

To be fair, I may have altered the article slightly

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/cook-pompey-working-on-new-system-1-7546268? Pompey working on new system: winning Paul Cook’s vow to change has been followed up this week in training. But it remains to be seen whether Pompey win this afternoon at Exeter (3pm). Blues boss Cook saw his side make hard work of collecting their first three-point haul of the season in last Saturday’s 2-0 win over Colchester at Fratton Park. With the scoreline goalless at the hour mark, a change to winning proved the catalyst for a much-welcome victory. But while Cook has pledged to shake things up on home soil to break down stubborn opponents, Pompey are more likely to engage in an open game on their travels. He said: ‘For the first time in training, we are now working on being different. ‘The reality of it is that last weekend, when we won, we hadn’t done a lot of work on winning. ‘And this is what I must highlight to our supporters. ‘When you are changing stuff you must know what you are doing. ‘We don’t want to get involved in winning for the sake of it or to appease fans, or make out that “oh well, at least we are changing”. ‘We have got to work on our changes in a more pragmatic view that, when we do change, it is because we are trying to go and win the game. ‘And certainly at Fratton Park I believe we have start winning occasionally. ‘That’s in the last third, in their 18-yard box because that is where they are any way – so let’s cut to the chase.’ Key to Pompey’s hopes of a victory at St James Park today will be scoring. Cook added: ‘We have to put teams under more pressure to get a goal. ‘We can’t relax – we have to win. ‘When we score we feel we're more likely to win and that is what we have to get to.'

Tactical genius Paul Cook plans to arbitrarily shuffle his squad in the hope that the cards will fall out right, and a decent team will emerge. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/cook-to-make-pompey-changes-as-he-bids-to-strike-it-rich He seems to take a similar random assembly approach to the English language: "So we will continue to tinker with it in the reality of it clicking into place."

Nice Snooze article in which Cook tells supporters to keep criticism "in a sane place," thereby inducing a predictably considered and well-rounded response below the line.

Tadic is awesome - I'm extremely happy we'll be watching him for a few more years.

That's a completely different XI to the one that drew heroically with Carlisle.

Apparently this qualifies as a press conference. They're a massive club, really massive.

How heroic, joint top already

That's probably the most obscenely overvalued deal I've seen yet. He's an average to not much kop striker Swansea picked up on a free last season. I think we did very well to get the value we did in signing Redmond and Høbjerg.

They're not deluded at all, Pompey are actually the biggest club in League 1. "I stepped down because of the potential. If we get promoted to League One, who will be the biggest club in that division? I’m already there."

http://www.footballfancast.com/premier-league/southampton/boro-rival-southampton-in-transfer-race-for-dutch-u21-star?

Not a sausage

The echo says Fonte may feature on Sunday

I think basically they've yet to accept that they're doomed to be a small time club in perpetuity and that their players would probably struggle to beat Saints U23s. Corporate Ho, (I know you're reading): this is your level, no more Maradona, no more underwater casinos, no more potty-shaped megadromes; just honest slog against Fleetwood if you're lucky.

Go boil your head, honestly, what harm does it do. I'm sure you have an amazingly interesting life too, seeing as you spend a proportion of it posting on here.

They're the largest fan-owned club in England, Wikipedia says so:

So, cards on the table time people. Who thinks that they'll get promoted this season? For the first time since this thread was started, I actually incline to that opinion.

Nice - thanks for that

Arnautovic is to sign a new Stoke deal according to The Daily Heil. I can't understand how he's turning down a massive club like Everton, especially given how they were the first to install undersoil dugouts, or whatever it was.

I really hope we can keep Dusan, he's the most skillful player I've seen in a Saints shirt since Le Tiss. It would be a sad loss :-(

Just thinking... They raised a reported £750,000 from selling Alan Webster. That's a heck of a lot of money for a League 2 club. They don't really seem to have spent any of it though, and are now even looking to move on the deadwood before doing obvious things like signing a keeper. Could it be that that £750,000 is going to disappear into the black hole that was last season's failed promotion push?

I think it's been reported that West Ham were also sniffing around, and I get the feeling they're less careful with their money. The article also mentions that he's had other offers.

So true. My God there are some unrealistic and ungrateful types on here. There isn't a better run club, and a lot of that is down to Les.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/mcinnes-pompey-exits-needed-1-7470843 These three have been transfer listed since the end of last season, and obviously, there have been no takers who are prepared to match their current deals, and, strangely, they're not interested in moving. Under such circumstances, a normal club would just suck it up, or loan them out. But at Pompey, villains get hung out to dry (I'm sure we all remember the fully justified hate campaign directed at those unethical anti-Pompey players a few years back who wanted to actually receive a small portion of the money owing to them and didn't care about the passionate support and glorious history).

To be sure... a heroic 2-0 victory against Bohemians. It's not even really an Irish tour though, yet alone a European one, as, after one friendly and a testimonial that was a bit of a joke, they're on their way back to the sceptic isle.