Duncan Barkes

At the end of the day, people go, oh, it's just business nowadays.

No, fella, it's show business.

Well, Steve, I could talk to you all day and we could listen to you all day, but we've well run out of time.

Thank you for all of that.

Enjoy Sunday.

Of course you will, one way or another.

And talk soon.

Look forward to it.

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Two or three things on this story.

One, I don't think many of us have given a great deal of thought to the fairly obvious fact that with Pompey down towards the relegation zone, one or two players and their people, their agency, might say it's not a good idea to go there because you could end up being relegated and that wouldn't do your market value any good.

And it wouldn't do your profile any good.

So think about a club that's higher up in the league than, say, 20th, 21st, 19th, which is round about where we are.

The second thing, of course, is that the club's doing all it can to steer clear, to rise above, to get away from the relegation zone.

So there's nothing more that they can do than they aren't already doing to achieve that.

And the third thing that's worth mentioning

reminding ourselves about, as far as this story is concerned, is it might be all hot air designed to increase the transfer value of the player in question.

And I suppose, finally, fourth thing, would we be paying £3 million for a striker?

It doesn't seem likely.

Important, though, good transfer business is, in January, it doesn't look likely that we'll be spending £3 million on any one player.