LEGENDARY FAN GOES JUGULAR
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What are the latest updates on Pompey's recruitment strategy?
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John Messina is emphasising the need for Pompey's recruitment strategy to fit the bill right across the pitch, saying, There has to be that balance you have to strike.
You have to strike a balance between waiting too long and that player not being available, then missing what the second or third choice might have been. We have to make sure you get the balance right, we could have signed 15 players by now, we could have had everything done and dusted, but we want to wait for the right ones. By the same token, we don't want to get to the end of the window and miss out on any of the ones we could have taken who may have affected things, but aren't at the top of the list. We're not sitting there waiting for the sake of waiting, though. If we can do deals, we'll do them. But I still look across the championship and don't see a huge amount of activity.
And of course, as usual, everybody is playing the same waiting game, trying to get the balance right. And what never really gets talked about is the fact that there are complex negotiations taking place at every club. involving hundreds of players. In Pompey's case, perhaps not just the six that we know we want to bring in, down to four now that we've brought two in, but not just those four. As John Massino indicated, there will be players who they will turn to if their number one selection, their preference, goes elsewhere. A deal can't be done. And so that list will probably be, in Pompey's case, and I'm just taking a shot here, there could be a dozen or more, 20 or 30 players whose people, agents, are being spoken to and they're trying to draw together a list of priorities for the various parts of the pitch where they want to have some new faces, or to be more precise, some new legs.
How does Pompey balance recruitment with player availability?
And it is a matter of striking a balance because you do want to get the best player you possibly can, your preference, in. But if that falls through, other clubs do have deeper pockets. There can be other means, matters that are taken into consideration when a player has to decide between club A, B and C, the geography of the thing. He might want to stay in the location that he is on. already act because they've got a young family and the kids are settled at school all of these things come into the it come into consideration and then of course there is the status of the club it hasn't been said but i often wondered whether yang was happy for tottenham to recall him because they said um there's a possibility that you'll be going to a more a club whose position in the league at the moment is far uh more status ridden than than that of pompey and they're they're red hot favorites to be playing in the premier league next season uh so that's the standard that they're at and that is the status that they have so all of those things go into the mix
with the players and their agents and their families to decide which club they go to. And Pompey will be on the possible list for about, as mentioned, a dozen, 20, 30 perhaps, players. And all of those negotiations are lengthy and complex, whether they're taking place live on the phone or by Zoom, or more likely by a series of either email exchanges or even telephone message exchanges, we'll never know. But we have to trust that Pompey get it right, which they more or less have done every time it's been Hughes and Massino, and that by the 1st of February, I think it is, or it might be the 2nd of February, We've got ourselves a full, rich squad of players who have youth and players who have experience.
That's one of the big balances that he's talking about.
Tom Chappell, described as a fan writer, has been granted a page on the BBC website to pontificate.
there was only ever going to be one acceptable outcome from Saturday afternoon. Win at all costs.
What challenges do clubs face during player negotiations?
Thankfully, that's exactly what we got. The 161-day wait for an away win since Oxford on the opening day wore heavy on the pre-match faces of all 1,500 Pompey fans who'd travelled to Hillsborough.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the latest updates on Pompey's recruitment strategy?
0:02–1:56
2
How does Pompey balance recruitment with player availability?
1:56–4:03
3
What challenges do clubs face during player negotiations?
4:03–7:17
4
How did Pompey's recent match impact the team's morale?
7:17–10:27
5
What were the standout performances in the latest game?
10:27–12:06
6
What common issues are affecting Pompey's season performance?
12:06–12:10