ONE DEAL GOT NASTY
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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.
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.
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...
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
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the latest updates on Pompey's player transfers?
0:02–1:30
2
How is Callum Lang's injury impacting team selection?
1:30–2:14
3
What is the significance of the postponed match against Ipswich?
2:14–3:31
4
What are the implications of the EFL's response to match postponements?
3:31–4:46
5
How did recent signings perform in their early games?
4:46–5:43
6
What controversies arose during the transfer window?
5:43–6:42
7
What insights does Andrew Moon provide on Pompey's transfer strategy?
6:42–10:02