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What were the highlights of Pompey's transfer window?
There's always more than enough to talk about when Steve Bone pitches up on Pompey Sound and podcast, of course. But today that is especially the case because we are still having the dust settle on an extremely busy final day of the transfer window. So, Steve, I'm just going to say Pompey's transfer window and over to you. Oh, wow.
OK, this could take the whole half hour, couldn't it really? Yeah, we ended up with three on the final day, wasn't it? Which I think gave us a total of seven players coming in.
How many players did Pompey sign on the final day of the transfer window?
Which I think probably, if you said to the average Pompey fan at the start of January... How many players do we need? I think most people would have said, in the present climate, six or seven. People would maybe have expected one or two others to either go back to their clubs or to be sold on. We lost a couple. People at that start of January would not have wanted to lose Callum Lang as part of the equation, but we did lose him on that final day. We've heard more about that and I'm sure we'll come on to that. But in terms of the players that have come in, obviously we've already seen a bit of three of them. I think I'm right in saying we've seen a fair bit of Ali, Adams and Anderson. In the case of Ali and Adams, big thumbs up.
They look as though they are going to make a difference. Well, they already have made a difference, really. Adams brings us qualities to the midfield that we didn't already have. Ali looks good on the wing and he's got an eye for goal, as we saw on Saturday, so that's good. I don't think we've seen enough of Anderson yet, which leaves us with another four points. Still to see and I'm pleased that they're signing people in alphabetical order because it's much easier to remember them, isn't it? So we've got Elise, the defender from Sunderland that we haven't seen yet. Looks a good prospect if he can stay fit. We've got Brown, the forward from Luton who comes with a few rave reviews and I would imagine we'll be getting some game time with Colby Bishop out.
Then we've got Caballero, I think he's the really interesting one, the Paraguayan winger. Looks like he's going to be used on the right side, got a bit of pace about him. John Massino says he can get bums off of seats, although I did notice that the manager said that three days after the official website was needing to put out a statement. reminding people that they did need to sit down during games and should only stand up in moments of high excitement or something. So maybe that's what the wing is going to bring us. Sorry, getting sidetracked there. And then we've also signed the defender, the Senegalese defender Dier. Not sure if it's Dier or Dier from the Norwegian club. So we've actually brought players in in pretty much every position that you would have wanted us to.
Whether they're all going to have the quality that we need in those positions, time will tell. But overall, I think quite promising.
OK, shall we start with Callum Lang then? Your thoughts there?
Yeah, I mean, I'm disappointed to see him go. As I've said on here before, I didn't... agree with those who said we should sell him, we should cash in because of his injury record. I know it's not been good this season, but it was okay before that. But it seems like he wanted to go. He handed in a transfer request, made it clear that he wanted the move. Seemingly he wants to move his family back up to the North West, close to where he has come to us from. And there's an interview with the managers today with John Massino who says because it was clear that Callum wanted to go he wasn't going to block it. He didn't want a player who didn't want to be here. Which I think is always the thing with these transfers.
You might have fans having a favourite player that they don't want to lose. But if that favourite player then becomes a player that doesn't want to be at that club, it does change things. And as much as clubs hold the... You know, when a player's under contract... it's up to a club whether they want to sell them or not, of course it is, that's the way it works but the reality of it is there's still a bit of player power there as well and if he's made it clear he wants to go and if there's a club in for him that he wants to go to and that club are prepared to pay the sort of money that Pompey wanted then it's always going to happen and I think we probably got about as much cash for him as we were ever going to
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