The Portsmouth Post
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tayo Singerr damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Nico Elvedi keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Portsmouth may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market23 Aug 2027
Zak Swanson hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Portsmouth can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Nicolas Schmid keeps Portsmouth in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Portsmouth
Nico Elvedi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Portsmouth
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Portsmouth
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abu Kamara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Portsmouth rebuffed over Brandon Austin
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fulham have kept their man, and Portsmouth go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market23 Aug 2027
Conor Shaughnessy attracts admirers
The name of Conor Shaughnessy has come up in conversations Portsmouth were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Abu Kamara
- Market Edward Cooper steps up from the Portsmouth academy
- Market One of our own: Mark Murray joins the Portsmouth first team