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Date:Friday September 11 2009
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O'Hara 'could' stay
I know that Jamie O'Hara has not even played a game for Pompey yet, and I also know that this is only a loan spell but I have - as I have often said - also though that he was bedding in very well and I would not write off a permanent move to Pompey, in fact I often suggest that I would not be surprised by this...
Signing a new contract with Spurs before his joining us on loan until January, with the option to extend until the end of the season, was seen by many as meaning that he was very much part of Spurs' long-term future.
For me this signing of a new contract was nothing more than a 'keep them on my side' move as we know from his time here once Jamie's Dad has 'made up his mind' about a player that is that - and for me he has done this with O'Hara. He is not a 'big enough name' so he will not feature that predominantly in the future for Spurs, and will only get pushed further down his thought process, so if the 22-year-old continues to enjoy life at Pompey, after he starts playing, I think there is a very good chance of him staying.
This is something that he has today told sky sports news: 'obviously that's what Tottenham want me to do. They want me to play football.
'On a personal view I just want to play. Whether it's at Portsmouth or Tottenham I just want to play football.
'If I'm going to be playing my football here then that's where I'm going to be playing my football.'
There seems to be a lot of Matty Taylor and Gary O'Neil about O'Hara, he seems to wear his heart on his sleeve, will give nothing short of everything week-in-week-out and run about all day long for the benefit of the side - he also seems to have that similar spark of quality about him, but as I say as he is not that 'superstar name' I feel he will ultimately suffer the same fate at Spurs as this pair did with Pompey, which had ultimately proved very much to our cost!
Out of all the signings we have made, and to be fair we have got in some 'decent players', he was the one that stood out for me most and I would be delighted if we could keep him - now all we need is for him to perform as well on the pitch as he does off it, and I am not talking about activities with a certain Miss Lloyd...
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I think it's a case of saying the right things at the moment. He loves Spurs so any given opportunity to play in their first team and he'll jump at it. But I think he realises he's quite a way down the pecking order there - even more so no Kranjcar has joined. If he does well I think there could be bigger clubs calling come January.
stillthewhizz
Shouldn't we just keep positive but calmly heads about the chap, he's already won a vital players vote but you haven't seen him play yet. Harry is no bad judge of a player and has let him go on loan so he believes the boy needs some development yet. In the meantime he's being put on an almost impossible pedestal as the great blue, white and red hope.
russellm
He is a loaned player who could go at anytime so we shouldn't expect to build a team around him; and don't we have spurs game soon? I really do think from lstenbg to comments at the last game and pub talkast night some fans are going a bit overboard about a player who isn't even ours. I thought stability was the new buzz word
russellm
Dead right Russ. O'Hara won't stay he is just talking it up and will run back to the Lane if we continue in our poor vein of form.
eastneydave
Whizz - there is a whole thread on Kranjcar's performance for Croatia at VS and the thoughts are pretty much the same as ours. Of course, Spurs are blaming us for blunting Kranjcar's skills during his time playing with rubbish team mates at Pompey...
Gandor1
O'Hara was on the pompey hour, this kid has an opinion, im surprised the club arent managing him a bit better - no im not
russellm
no you're not.. what Russ? .. Tend to agree with most comments about O'Hara .. yes I expect him to be abale to play, but I'm more interested in how Brown, Smith, Webber, Ben Haim, Prince Buster etc.. will perform
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