Duncan Barkes

Does it mean we'll see Luke Graham in a pompy blue shirt eventually?

Let's talk about the Senegalese via Norway, Madio Dodea, I think is his full name.

Do you suppose he was always a fullback in case the Luke Graham thing didn't happen?

Yeah, you mentioned him a little bit already and so I want to pick your brains.

I'm afraid I can't help you because Jacob Brown is new to me and his name didn't appear on our computer screens until halfway through the last day of the window.

What did you make of the hoo-ha about Terry Devlin going to Wrexham?

Yeah, John Messina has got some interesting words to say about him today, which is that he's the most straightforward footballer he's ever met.

But that and that he's now worth so much more than we paid for him.

So he's been a good investment.

But he also says, and if he goes before his contract is up, good luck to him.

It's kind of interesting.

Yeah.

Something about him reminds me of Stuart Pearce.

Straightforward.

Now, I want to ask you about the postponed game, and I want to ask you specifically this.

When Pompey and Ipswich were reorganising the replayed game, which, you know, had been postponed, presumably with the EFL invigilating, it presumably wouldn't have been a valid argument that you can't have the game on the Tuesday evening, the day after the transfer window ends, because we intend to do a lot of business...

right at the end and that will mean that our new players won't be registered in time that's the fact of it but you can't use that as an argument can you

And talking about waterlogged pitches and the fact that Caballero is going to be surprised by the English weather, I think I was surprised when I did a bit of research and discovered that the country which has the most games called off because pitch waterlogged is Brazil.

Yeah.

They have no drainage.