The Portsmouth Post
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Rhys Williams would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Rhys Williams is living that version at Portsmouth, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market17 Aug 2026
Portsmouth turn down Accrington Stanley for Jordan Archer
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
John Swift in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Portsmouth this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 Aug 2026
Portsmouth come up short against Millwall
Millwall left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nicolas Schmid gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Conor Shaughnessy falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
One moment undoes Adrian Segecic
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
Market17 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Portsmouth and Rhys Williams
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Portsmouth turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
In brief
- Market Ben Killip is free to find somewhere else
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Josh Murphy
- Market Portsmouth shop where it costs nothing