POMPEY CHASING TWO
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What recent developments are happening in the January transfer window for Pompey?
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The start of the final week of the January transfer window sees Pompey engaged in cloak and dagger over two potential new arrivals. Sheffield Wednesday's midfielder, six-foot-three-inch Ingleson, and Dundee's coveted young centre-back Luke Graham. The only concrete news on the Sheffield Wednesday front, is that the club are braced for a number of players leaving in the next few days, to which direction north south east or west the reliable Swede will take remains top secret. One recognised news source is claiming that Pompey have already had a £600,000 bid for the young Scot knocked back, and that several other clubs including Championship rivals and highly rated Scottish clubs are throwing their hat into the ring.
Pompey have developed a PR technique of waiting to make the announcement of new additions until after close of play on the day of success, and Pompey Sound will bring you any concrete news as and when it's published.
Pompey are hinting that if they feel they have sufficient strength in depth at left-back to provide quality cover in the event of Connor Ogilvie being injured suspended or needed elsewhere, they will send Jacob Farrell out on loan. Farrell saw his first action after 17 months injured coming off the bench at Watford, and looked in good shape and capable of doing a good job. John Massino has to balance the need to have cover in place against the enormous backlog of injuries the squad are dealing with, with the need to continue the development of a young asset who will remain contracted to Pompey for two seasons after the current one. Massino is saying quote, Watford was Faz's first league game since September 2024, that's a huge amount of football to miss for someone we're considering a loan for.
It's something we've spoken about, but we said that it's something that can't happen because we need him now. I wasn't lying when I said that. We needed him the other night, and he was very close to coming on against Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton. I was delighted he got some game time against Watford. He's a good player, it's just about getting him some game time and trying to maximise that asset for us as a football club. We've seen Jacob Reards once in the league, I thought he played really well, but it was a long time ago and he's had many injuries since.
He needs to play. Of course, he wants to play. He needs to play in order to hone his game back to the level that it was before he suffered this string of injuries that have basically kept him off the pitch for, is it 17 months? That's a long time. When you're in your very early 20s, you're 10,500 miles away from home. You're kind of on your own, although, as discussed frequently on Pompey Sound, there are enough Aussies in the dressing room now to keep him company, but he's sorely laid up, or has been sorely laid up. Put in a 15-minute cameo, didn't he, just a few days ago now, and looked pretty good, looked very professional. The way he bought a foul when a foul was needed against Chef Wed, wasn't it?
Everything else that he did on the pitch, which wasn't a lot, to be fair, but everything that he did looked entirely authentic. But if John Messina and the coaching staff say he needs game time, he needs game time. And when the player ahead of you is Connor Ogilvie, that's going to be hard to get. Of course, Connor could get a suspension. I don't know how many yellows he's on at the moment. He could be moved to centre-half the way things are, and he certainly does a great job there. Or it's possible that he might be needed to be rested, in which case, then, step forward... farrell but as things stand he's going to be spending a lot of time sitting on the bench and therefore not developing his uh the top end of his footballing game which he might do if he's on loan somewhere and it looks as though if the rumors are to be believed that the clubs lining up interested in his services if he goes out on loan are pretty substantial clubs pretty substantial outfits which is very flattering for him and if you want to view him uh
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