HOT! TOP LOAN WINGER COMING?
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What are the latest transfer rumors for Portsmouth FC?
The latest Pompey news updates every day from the Pompey Sound News Desk. To the frustration of Pompey-speaking fans the world over, transfer rumours and gossip continue to bounce off the walls, but as yet Pompey have nothing concrete to report. Versatile midfielder-stroke defender Paddy McNair, a Middlesbrough stalwart for many years, is given a glowing commendation by his former boss Michael Carrick. Journalists have been linking him with a free move from the United States to either Pompey or Oxford United, and he's presumably in talks which won't be over until the fat lady sings. One player who won't be coming to Fratton Park is Gambier international Abdouli Mane, who currently plays in Sweden for Mialby.
The price tag of 4.5 million is almost certainly too rich for the South Coaster's blood, whereas Deep Pocket's Birmingham City can treat it as a cough and a spit.
Who is Lewis Comas and why is he a potential signing for Pompey?
One name that so far has come in under the radar is 20-year-old Lewis Comas, a highly rated Welsh winger previously on loan with Birmingham, but largely consigned to the bench until he recently made a name for himself with a start and a big goal signalling his arrival as a Championship player. His availability to Pompey is dependent on him concluding his loan spell with Birmingham, and finding a new loan club to compete for a starting place, and complete his season. With Pompey currently posting no less than four wide attackers injured, Coomers could be lured to Fratton Park, with the certainty of starting plenty of games. John Massigno is asked about a date for Callum Lang's return,
What updates are there on Callum Lang's injury recovery?
Lange is okay he's going to be four to six weeks from the time of injury so we're looking at at least three weeks into that. It's a different hamstring to the previous one. It doesn't make a difference to me it's still a hamstring I just want him back. It's the way Callum plays the intensity he plays at he's always going to be at risk. We did make a real conscious effort to look after him we always do with all the players who are coming back from rehabilitation managing him back into it.
How is Portsmouth FC addressing their injury crisis?
Maybe just with the load and the amount of games and the intensity of it was just one game too far. From a football medical standpoint, we are comfortable with the fact we have done everything we possibly can with Callum and he has looked as strong as he can. Sometimes these things do happen. There's sometimes nothing you can do about injuries, hence sides have got them up and down the country.
I don't know, if John Massino had a pound for every time he was asked about injuries, I reckon we could afford Mbappé. But there is something going on, and John is right to point out that it's a mystery, and he's right to point out that it's not happening to just us, it's happening up and down the country. Although there are no stats available to clarify this, my guess is that we are almost worse off than anybody else with injuries, maybe the worst off. for injuries in all four divisions. I don't know. The numbers are difficult to collate, but it's a widespread problem. And it's possible that at some point in the future, somebody will rumble what it is that everybody's not quite getting right. It could be the quantity of fixtures.
It could be the intensity of the game now that we all play the press. Could be the expectations of fitness, which is very high now on professional footballers to run and run and run. The ground they cover is now monitored to within half an inch and they're expected to put in a payload, put in a shift of getting around the pitch.
What are the statistics on Pompey's defensive struggles with set pieces?
All of these things and then fast accelerations and twisting and turning, all putting pressure on muscles and ligaments and joints. I remember going to a centenary match, so it would have been 1998, Pompey's 100th. anniversary year and before a game about 10 to 3 of a Saturday afternoon they did a presentation of as many of the still living Pompey players who were around and could get there and they introduced them decade by decade so I think I'm right in saying that I don't think they were only from the 40s might have been and there were some from the 50s definitely quite a few from the 60s and the 70s
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the latest transfer rumors for Portsmouth FC?
0:02–0:53
2
Who is Lewis Comas and why is he a potential signing for Pompey?
0:53–1:31
3
What updates are there on Callum Lang's injury recovery?
1:31–1:56
4
How is Portsmouth FC addressing their injury crisis?
1:56–3:24
5
What are the statistics on Pompey's defensive struggles with set pieces?
3:24–5:01
6
What did John Massigno learn from facing Arsenal's set-piece strategy?
5:01–5:31
7
How does Portsmouth handle set pieces during games?
5:31–7:51
8
What is the status of goalkeeper Toby Stewart's loan at St Johnstone?
7:51–13:36