Morning update + on loan players

A few interesting snippets within the weekend/morning papers. The People reported that we had agreed a £1.2m price with Derby County for striker Steven Howard but the deal collapsed because personal terms with the player couldn't be reached...

Secondly, the Wardrobe was quoted in the Daily Star Sunday saying that he believes Portsmouth are good enough to push for top honours - and to play European football next season: "I didn't get that feeling at Fulham and when the new manager Lawrie Sanchez came in, it was best that I moved on," he said. "I wasn't part of his plans." I have to say, comments like these really annoy me. Sure Diop had the requisite skills on his day, but the simple fact was that those days didn't come along anywhere near often enough. When I watched him in the away game at Pompey (ironically) last year it looked like Bambi had stumbled onto a motorway. He was totally and utterly clueless about what was going on. Shocking stuff. Maybe if he had put in some more consistent performances we could have spent the tail end of last season looking forward to some European tours rather than panicking about being dumped into the championship.

Thirdly an early warning...Ferguson has been quoted praising Healy...here we go again....

I am in the process of putting together a section on the blog following our loan signings and getting some comments from the clubs where they are currently plying their trade so will post again as soon as that can go live.