Pompey's summer recruitment

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Re: Pompey's summer recruitment

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Locky_McLockface wrote: I find Kennedy odd. Having seen him play a couple of times, I though he looked a very good signing -
Agree. When he first arrived he looked like another Ricky Holmes type and he terrorised a couple of RBs in earlier games. He has never really repeated that form which is a great shame.
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So no development squad next season which means a bit more money for the 1st team squad.

Only two of the six academy players have been offered a 1 year professional deal - 6' 8" centre half Matt Casey and attacking midfield/striker Dan Smith.
Watching wheels spin and dust settle.
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Re: Pompey's summer recruitment

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Pompey Penguin wrote:
Lost in Transportation wrote:DMs: Holding midfielder is a specialist role that needs filling. Ruben Sammut of Chelsea has trained with Pompey on a few occasions in the last few months. Keep Widdrington (new contract)
Theo Widdrington has gone.

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/foot ... -1-8477678

I think he has a good chance of still finding a place at NL / L2 level, and may yet work his way up a bit higher than that at his peak.
His dad Tommy Widdrington has just been appointed as head of recruitment at Bristol Rovers. Watch this space as to where Theo ends up.
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Re: Pompey's summer recruitment

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Will all become clearer Monday and Tuesday next week!
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No surprise that Nicke Kabamba leaves. If only players could be as good as their songs...
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Re: Pompey's summer recruitment

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Just for interest, Sunderland in L1 will be paying Jack Rodwell £2 million; more than half Pompey's likely playing wage bill. They will get a £35 million parachute payment from the PL, but most of that will be needed to service a £135 million debt. The madness continues.
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Pompey Penguin wrote:They will get a £35 million parachute payment from the PL, but most of that will be needed to service a £135 million debt.
The debt is apparently being written off as part of the takeover so they will be in a better place come next season.
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Confirmed by the club that Jez Bedford, Nicke Kabamba, Kal Naismith and Theo Widdrington are leaving the club.

Options taken up on Alex Bass and Brandon Haunstrup. Adam May in talks. Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain being offered a deal to help him recover from a broken leg.

So 17 professionals under contract excluding May and Oxlade-Chamberlain.

GK: McGee, Bass
RB: Thompson
LB: Donohue, Haunstrup
CD: Burgess, Clarke, Whatmough, Casey
CM: Close, Rose
RW: Lowe, Evans
LW: ....
AF: Pitman, Hawkins, Chaplin, Smith
Watching wheels spin and dust settle.
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Re: Pompey's summer recruitment

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Lost in Transportation wrote:Confirmed by the club that Jez Bedford, Nicke Kabamba, Kal Naismith and Theo Widdrington are leaving the club.

Options taken up on Alex Bass and Brandon Haunstrup. Adam May in talks. Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain being offered a deal to help him recover from a broken leg.

So 17 professionals under contract excluding May and Oxlade-Chamberlain.

GK: McGee, Bass
RB: Thompson
LB: Donohue, Haunstrup
CD: Burgess, Clarke, Whatmough, Casey
CM: Close, Rose
RW: Lowe, Evans
LW: ....
AF: Pitman, Hawkins, Chaplin, Smith
Smith and Casey?
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Re: Pompey's summer recruitment

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It's going to be a busy summer or long season.

That midfield is seriously thin on quality.
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Re: Pompey's summer recruitment

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Pompey Dave wrote:Smith and Casey?
They have been discussed earlier in this thread. They are the two academy lads taken on as 1st year professionals.
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