RW will be a loan, we won't spend the required money to get anyone decent permanently.

He needs a full season playing at this point. If he's too good for that league then let him show it

Can't help but feel that might be it apart from loans now

We're the anti-chelsea. Instead of massively long contracts we give stupidly short ones

Mighty inconvenient how all our targets keep getting injured...

Sounds like agent stirring to get more money from Pompey

I've heard it's someone called T. Dolan

To be fair Mercer said Brittain was close to agreeing a contract, which he was, just not with us

Deal fails Some other club signs him He goes on to have a storming season Sold for £10m next summer

Baradji has been linked with Celtic, Torino, Leicester, Galatasaray, Sunderland recently but that of course could all have been bollocks agent stuff

Good luck to him, hope he can stay injury free and kick start his career

We're not skint of course, but how can we compete with the likes of the mighty Oxford United?

Doesn't seem like they have high hopes for him

Why would anyone want to stay here if there are other options even at the same level and on the same pay? The club is run like a joke and there's every possibility we'd become the next Sheffield Wednesday.

Well no-one wants to sell us their players for 50% of their market value so what else can we do?

Ah, so the totally legitimate transfer targets have failed, now it's time to bring in the youngsters on loan

Ah well, we tried. Time to get some premier league kid on loan instead

What do you mean, we've got ample backup in Forshaw

Batth's stock wasn't high after his stint at Norwich, he wasn't even getting a game when they had multiple injuries at the back. Probably why he accepted a 1 year deal then but wants a 2 year deal now that others might be interested.

But doesn't using these new funds to cover running costs then free up the funds that would have been used on running costs to be used elsewhere, such as transfers?

How do they even police that the money can't be spent on transfer fees? Are we just not allowed to spend any money on transfers now? Or do we have to prove that we already had some money set aside for transfers and we cannot exceed that?

Lived in Leicester since he was a kid then joined their academy aged 9

Uh-oh

Not going to be particularly excited about Tavares, will have to wait and see. Started half the games in the Portuguese league which is pretty poor outside the top three. Let's hope he's been brought in to fill in the squad a bit rather than be a starter.

If only there was a 1.5 billion population market that the owners could try and tap into?