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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on Pompey's player transfers?
Even as the Pompey team bus was heading north through the rain towards Preston, a journey logged at five hours and four minutes by Google Maps, so the Lancashire Post was polling Preston fans for their reaction to Preston's transfer activities.
It seems the Deepdale juries are out on Callum Lang the consensus being that he is an excellent footballer who brings creativity and energy, but most of those whose opinions are aired place a question mark over his injury record.
Callum who was anxious to go back to his home territory and is now playing his football a short ride away from his beloved Merseyside, has yet to make public comment about either leaving Pompey or his homecoming.
In addition there is understandably no word on whether he is either eligible or fit enough to play on Saturday, and Pompey are likewise keeping a closed book on the eligibility of their new players, and which if any of them will be turning out in their kit either for the start of the game, or to take their place on the bench.
Yes, there is a small irony and nothing significant in the fact that Callum Lang hasn't been a Preston player for more than 20 minutes when all of a sudden Pompey show up at the door. But we'll come back to that in another place. Team selection for the Preston game. It seems most likely to most of us that Colby Bishop is not going to be fit. It looked a nasty injury, whatever it was.
And we know that a scan was taken, but we haven't had much in the way of concrete feedback from the club on that.
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Chapter 2: How is Callum Lang's injury impacting team selection?
Again, they're playing their cards, understandably, close to their chest. If he doesn't play, and he was seen in a boot after the game, if he doesn't play, that opens the door for Mackenzie Kirk to start. Or, slightly riskier, but possibly Jacob Brown to wear the metaphorical number nine shirt. Or for Gustavo Caballero. to play as a central striker, which apparently he has experience of doing.
And these are both experienced footballers in their mid-twenties. No, actually, I think, yeah, Jacob Brown is 25. Caballero is also 25. So these are experienced men who've played football towards the highest level. So we're not taking a risk with any greenhorns.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of the postponed match against Ipswich?
No offence to Mackenzie Kirk, but he doesn't have anything like the experience of those two guys. So we could be seeing an interesting team
announced or hearing an interest no seeing on our phones at two o'clock uh no one minute past two it's just occurred to me just to remind everybody not that it makes the slightest bit of difference to anything but the kickoff on saturday will be at one minute past three as will all the football games, for the next month or so, kick off one minute later than their normal scheduled time.
So instead of 7.45, there'll be 7.46, and so on, so on. And this is all to raise awareness for a charity which is promoting people getting used to learning how to operate these defibrillation machines, which save lives. And because we've had fatalities at home and away games, Pompey are, I think, very fresh with the understanding that it is worth everybody knowing how these machines work.
But having said that, back to team selection. At one minute past two, meticulously posted by Pompey's media people, will be the team sheet, complete with the starting 11 and the subs, of course. And it will, once again, it always does...
Chapter 4: What are the implications of the EFL's response to match postponements?
but particularly on this occasion, make for fascinating reading.
Football League World Zip Switch fan pundit Adam has provided thoughts over the most recent postponement of the away clash with Portsmouth and whether a punishment should be in order given it is the second time that this has happened.
I have to step in at this point. Normally one of our AI robot newsreaders would deliver what it is that this Ipswich fan pundit, Adam, has to say. It's published on the website Football League World. It's calling for Portsmouth to be punished. I have to jump in and read it to you because it is such an ungrammatical, ill-coordinated piece of journalism that the robot...
cannot recognize it so this is what adam has to say and i'm not going to insult him by using an ipswich accent i'm going to do him the decent thing and read it properly but you will hear yourself the confusion in his own mind that he then puts down on paper or at least pixelates on a pc screen here we go he says
I think it's a very rare situation in football where games are postponed twice in a row. And I really feel for the fans who had started travelling down.
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Chapter 5: How did recent signings perform in their early games?
At least this time it was called off with a bit more time in hand, but I think there has to be punishments by the EFL if this happens, whether that's fines or maybe not, as extreme as point deductions. That was all one sentence. You kind of get the gist, don't you? You can also see why a robot went, what? Nah. He goes on. Pick the bones out of that.
He finishes by saying, when you get promoted to the Premier League, there are a bunch of regulations that have to be fulfilled for broadcast requirements and a bunch of other requirements. This is pre-O level stuff, isn't it? Final sentence.
Chapter 6: What controversies arose during the transfer window?
I see no reason why there shouldn't be a set of regulations in the championship that are similar and include pitch conditions because in this day and age to have a match called off twice due to pitch conditions is a bit ridiculous. I don't know what anybody thinks they're doing in publishing something like that.
And it's an appalling thing to suggest that Portsmouth are punished at all for what was an absolute downpour, you know, a monsoon type day. If we'd had covers on the pitch, then the pitch would have been two inches deep in water that hadn't had a chance to soak into the pitch. Absurd. Completely absurd. But, I suppose, in some corners of journalism, that's what you want. A little bit of nonsense.
I hope you've recognised in listening to Pompey Sound as you do, faithfully, dear listener, that is not something we indulge in.
Here's the BBC's Andrew Moon on Pompey's transfer window.
Chapter 7: What insights does Andrew Moon provide on Pompey's transfer strategy?
If you buy into the theatre of transfer deadline day Portsmouth were the club for you this January, there were late signings and acrimonious will-he-won't-he saga, and some frantic googling of players you hadn't heard of. Lots of excitement, but is it a good outcome for the Blues?
The flippant response is always that we'll know in a few months, but we already know the signs are encouraging from the early business. Midfielder Ibu Adams has made a stunning impact, and has been exactly the kind of player Pompey needed in midfield. Milenic Alli has also made an encouraging start, and Kishi Anderson looks a useful addition.
Those three all know about the Championship, as does Jacob Brown. The same cannot be said for Gustavo Caballero and Mariudio Dier. Dier is a centre-back for the future, Caballero a winger for the here and now. It will be fascinating to see how they get on. Nico Schmid has been a brilliant addition but other recent overseas signings have found life tough in the Championship.
It's an excellent piece and it comes highly recommended by Pompey Sound. He's a professional. The piece is beautifully crafted, it's measured, it's intelligent and there is a revelation in it. which was mentioned just now by our voice for Andrew, and that is that there was one aspect of the transfer activity was acrimonious, which we hadn't spotted, had you?
It turns out that Moon believes that the Lang saga was turned acrimonious. There was some bad blood. And one can only speculate as to what that might be. Later on in the piece, and I strongly recommend you go to BBC Solent's website and read it in full, he talks about the possibility that Lange might have to turn round and come back down the M6.
as though his heart was so set on a move back home for him that he'd more or less done it, and he was just waiting for the ink to dry on various pieces of paper, metaphorically speaking. And he was possibly miffed that Pompey kept holding out and holding out and holding out for a bigger fee, which is what you do. What did he expect Pompey would go? Oh, you want to go?
Oh, OK, we'll charge him seven and six. No, business is business. Football is business. It's show business and business business. So Pompey held out for the best possible fee that they could get. But the implication by Moon appears to be, and I could have this totally wrong, because he doesn't specify which of the transfer dealings turned a little bit acrimonious.
He does point the finger at the fact that John Messina was relatively quiet about Lang going once that going had been confirmed. I think Moon says something along the lines of it wasn't the oft-used, terse, ten-word sentence thanking the player for their service and wishing them luck in the future.
There was a bit more than that, as you would expect of John Messina, because he's adroitly diplomatic about everything. But it is an interesting take and an angle that we hadn't spotted, had you, on Pompey's transfer window, that one of the transfers, and again, it's not specified which, but we think he's talking about Lange, turned acrimonious.
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