£3m WINGER SHUNS POMPEY
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This transfer story is from Sports Witness. Portsmouth are in the race to sign Gornik Zabri's Ousmane Sow in the winter market. That's according to Majaiki.pl, who report on interest from the Championship club, Brondby IF and Victoria Plozen interest in the 25-year-old. Gornik Zabri took the winger from Lies SK in February 2025. He's impressed so far, scoring nine goals and contributing three assists from 19 matches this season. Taking his performances into account, Maciejki.pl say it's no surprise clubs ask about him. Portsmouth and Victoria-Pleizen have both shown interest in the Senegalese attacker. He can leave the Polish club in this window, however the report states the attacker has discarded the option of joining John Mazzino's side.
The Championship club are currently 21st in the table, a point above 22nd-placed Norwich City, with two games in hand. According to the outlet, Sow isn't impressed by Portsmouth's current sporting situation, therefore, he isn't keen on joining the English club. Bromby could end up winning the transfer race after making multiple offers, the last one around €3m plus bonuses. This is, irresistible, for Gornik Zabrzej, who have to raise funds due to a lack of financial support from their owner. McAkee.pl claim it's matter of days before Sow leaves his current club. However, it's unlikely he'll move to Portsmouth in January.
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.
We want Harry to play. We want Harry to play as many games as possible. It was part of the plan when we signed him on the pro contract. We've always kept an open mind. We didn't think he would impact us at first team level this season, so we wanted to get him some games and we wanted to get him flowing. So far it hasn't quite happened, he didn't play a huge amount at Welling, bits and pieces, but they had a change of manager, which obviously didn't help. When that happens, particularly with young loan players it's a difficult situation, and Welling decided to go in that direction. So because we had the loan ready at Havant, we decided to end it at Welling. It will just be good for Harry to get games he needs to get games, it's not gonna be career defining, but the quicker we can get him playing the better.
You need to get that experience of playing first team football, it's the way I did it. It doesn't mean it's the only right thing to do, but I certainly think that, if you're ready to go and play first-team games, then it's the next level. If you look at all the under-21s programs up and down the country, with the Premier League boys, barring the lads that are good enough to go into the first team, the big push is for the lads that have done their time in under-21s to go out and get first-team experience. It's a good pathway, but, ultimately first-team experience is the one that gets them to where they want to be.
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