Ebou Adams

Defensive Midfielder - Portsmouth
30 Sep 2026
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Marked for Ebou Adams

7 Edition

The Portsmouth Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Josh Murphy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match12 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Portsmouth's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Portsmouth has to find a result from somewhere.

Market14 Sep 2026

Portsmouth say no — this time

The offer from Charlton Athletic for Ben Killip was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad14 Sep 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Gonzalo Groba 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Conor Shaughnessy

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Conor Shaughnessy, and the manager let it.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

The afternoon belonged to Gustavo Caballero

A mark of 7.98, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match12 Sep 2026

Portsmouth and Bristol City take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Ebou Adams dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Portsmouth Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market7 Sep 2026

Hayden Matthews 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.

Match5 Sep 2026

4 matches without a win for Portsmouth

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Portsmouth are no longer polite ones.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Portsmouth

John Swift 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.

Match5 Sep 2026

Gustavo Caballero’s goal not enough for Portsmouth

Gustavo Caballero scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Coventry City, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for John Swift

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to John Swift, and the manager let it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Portsmouth training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Conor Shaughnessy is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

4 Edition

The Portsmouth Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Gustavo Caballero

Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market24 Aug 2026

Jordan Archer puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Portsmouth, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Portsmouth

John Swift 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Portsmouth training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Conor Shaughnessy is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

One of those days for Josh Murphy

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad24 Aug 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Aji Alese's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief