Chapter 1: What recent news is impacting Portsmouth football?
The latest Pompey news. Updates every day from the Pompey Sound News Desk. John Messina is having fun pretending that Mili Alli isn't up to scratch in the hope that Luton decide to sell him. He says with his tongue firmly in his cheek. He's been useless. I don't think there's going to be any value in him this summer, I think Luton should get rid of him and do it really quickly.
Seriously, Mill has been very very good for us.
Chapter 2: Why does John Messina believe Mili Alli isn't performing well?
I do think there's a lot of improvement we can get in his game though with the Wrexham game a really good example of that. Some concentration down that left hand side and a little bit of final product that's whether it's crosses or cutting in onto his right foot and finishes. Goals and assists are the next step for him.
So I think there's still plenty of polishing we still need to do with that player but I think he's come in and made a really big impact. You can see with the team selection and the fact that he's been playing 90 minutes in pretty much every game. Signing Ali permanently is obviously out of our hands. Because he's gonna be a Luton player again in the summer.
From my perspective if I can speak to Millie in the summer and persuade him to maybe extend his stay here. I think everyone could see that as being beneficial. It's a tricky one, isn't it, for John Massino? He doesn't want the hype to go far and wide as it did with Abu Kamara.
His club wanted Kamara back and they were able to sell him for between three and five million, whereas he was probably only worth three quarters or one million when he came to us. we put that much improvement into the lad. And if we're going to do the same with Mill, as we now know John Messina, a big fan of nicknames, calls Ali, Mill is showing tremendous potential.
And by the end of the season, he could be as highly valued as Abu Kamara, couldn't he? In which case, obviously, Luton are going to be saying everywhere, you can have him, anybody who wants him, but he's going to be three, he's going to be four, he's going to be five million, do I hear six?
So John Messina wants to praise his low knee, to help get the best out of him, but at the same time, he doesn't want Luton to run away with the idea that Pompey have trebled the value of a player who just wasn't working when he was playing for them.
After playing three consecutive games on the road, Portsmouth are set to return to Fratton Park for the first time since losing 1-0 to Sheffield United on February 14. They enjoyed two successful trips to the capital, recording 3-1 victories over Charlton Athletic and Millwall, to claim back-to-back away league wins for the first time this season.
However they were unable to make it three successive away wins in Tuesday's narrow 2-1 defeat against Wrexham at the Racecourse ground. They're now preparing for a meeting with promotion hopefuls Hull, a team they have not beaten since recording a 2-0 away victory in December 2020.
They should at least fancy their chances of negating the threat of the league's third-highest scorers, given the fact they have not conceded more than one goal in any of their previous 10 Championship home games. Hull are currently six points adrift of second-placed Middlesbrough, with a game in hand after winning 17, drawing six and losing 10 of their 33 league matches this season.
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