The strongest link, once again, is Celtic bhoy Stilian Petrov who still wants away from the Scottish Champions. Despite the official site claiming that transfer targets weren't going to be confirmed in the press it seems pretty contradictory that both Milan Mandaric and Harry Redknapp have confirmed their interest in Petrov through the media! I've already aired my views on Petrov, it seems like he'd be a great signing for us, especially at 3.5 million quid. Harry also seems to agree with me that moving to Pompey, would in fact be a step up from Celtic saying "It's not a fantastic league. The Premiership is a million miles in front."
Other links to Pompey are just your usual tabloid garbage. Yakubu, Jean-Alain Boumsong and Emile Heskey and they also reckon that Matty Taylor is off to Fulham for a million. That rumour is beyond a joke, I'm sure most Pompey fans would laugh such a feeble "bid" off and I'm sure he will be at Pompey next season unless silly money gets offered for him.
On to players not coming to us and Olivier Thomert is now staying at Lens having failed to reach an agreement with Pompey and Glen Johnson is also now almost certain to go on loan to Feyenoord having arrived in Holland not too long ago. We might have had two lucky escapes there as Thomert doesn't sound all the great anyway, especially for the price whereas we already have a very good first team right back in Brian Priske and I can't see Johnson sitting on the bench all season, nor Priske for that matter.
Benfica also still insist that Nuno Gomes isn't going anywhere so we can forget about signing him.
That's all for the time being, no signings yet but still no need to panic as half the Premiership still haven't signed any new faces yet!