POMPEY MAN TO HIT THE HEIGHTS
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John Massigno on Terry Devlin and Wrexham.
I haven't talked to Terry about Wrexham's interest, but he's absolutely fine. Terry is the most straightforward player I've ever worked with, so I didn't need to muddy the waters at all. There's one massive reason Terry has gone from where he was in Northern Ireland, and the five-figure fee we paid for him playing a bit part in our promotion, to progressing to being one of the first names on the team sheet in the Championship. There's a reason for that.
How has Terry Devlin progressed in his career at Pompey?
He gets his head down, and he doesn't complain. He asks why he's not in the team when he's not in the team, then takes what I say and works on it relentlessly. you'll see him out on the training pitch every day when we're telling him to go in he does everything right in the gym he lives his life right and he is going to have a very good career because of that if he moves on he deserves it when you've got players as straightforward as that there's no need to mess about terry will be fully committed to us for as long as he's at the football club if he moves on sooner than his contract then fair play to him because he deserves it
So Pompey bought Terry Devlin for a multiple five-figure fee and now he's worth a multiple seven-figure fee. We bought, or they bought, Callum Lang, who we'd never heard of, I don't think, for £400,000 and his sell-on turned out to be getting on for £2 million. Now this kind of business makes the average hedge fund manager look slow off the mark. So well done to all concerned. And let's keep it up. I worry a tiny little bit. Did you notice during what John Massino was saying along the lines of twice he said if he moves on, good for him, good luck to him. Not sure we like the sound of that, but let's see what develops. And he is straightforward, isn't he? Every single Pompey fan at Fratton Park knows that Terry Devlin not only plays where he wants, he's very straightforward about his football.
He's a great tackler. He's great in the air. He's good tactically. He knows when to get forward. And when he gets forward, he scores goals or sets them up. Yeah. Two million.
I have to do better than that, you Hollywood boys at Wrexham.
4 Stephen Pearce has revealed how Ibu Adam's January departure helped Derby County to an incredible transfer window, which saw the club announce five signings including two on deadline day. The midfielder, who had been a key cog at Pride Park over the course of the last two years, left the Rams during the window, joining fellow championship outfit Portsmouth. The Blues spent £500,000 on the 30-year-old, and he has already started to repay that fee, with goals against West Browmich Albion and most importantly, Southampton. The £500,000 that Portsmouth paid for the midfielder is no secret, and it has been widely reported by many publications over the course of the last few weeks. However, The Telegraph's John Percy has now reported how Pompey will pay Derby, with the Rams pocketing £375,000 up front with the rest of the fee to be paid in the summer.
This has allowed Eustace and his recruitment team to make quick moves for the likes of Merkin, while Sanderson and Fraulo's permanent moves were seemingly all but paid for by Portsmouth. There is no denying Derby's history, and the horrors of the 2021-22 campaign live long in the memory of those at Pride Park. But David Clowes and Steven Pearce are doing everything right as they continue to make the club one of the most financially secure in the entire EFL.
Interesting. We can come back to how things are at Derby in just a second, very quickly, but it's pertinent. But first of all, isn't it refreshing to get some minuter, some detail about a transfer involving Pompey? In this case, a purchase. So it's £500,000 is the deal, £375,000 up front and the rest in the summer. And we suspect that a great many deals are done along similar lines with delayed payments, but it's good to know and it's good to get the facts and it's good to have that guy in the building, isn't it?
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