Portsmouth News 24/7Writer: 
Date:Friday September 8 2006
Time: 8:35PM
UK time is: 17:40:54
Vital Login
Social Login
Choose your club
Other Sites
Network Navigation
Vital Partners
'If It's Football, It's Vital'
Defoe Wanted to Join Pompey?!?!
Pompey have claimed (Peter Storrie) that we had a six million bid for Defoe rejected. Peter Storrie told the Sun newspaper;
'We put in a bid of £6m for Defoe and it was rejected,' said Storrie.
'He wanted to come and that shows we are a club moving in the right direction.'
Although this is nice to hear, a six million bid for Defoe was unlikely to be accepted! Lets face it, Emile Hesky went for about that. Pompey where obviously interested in the player but these latest claims are likely to upset Tottenham.
Is this a move by Pompey to upset the player before swooping for him in January?
Use your social login to comment on front page articles. Login using you Facebook, Twitter, Google or LinkedIn accounts and have your say!
Your Comments
Don't be silly now.
All that money, but who wants to play for Portsmouth!
Salford Red
David James, Sol Campbell, Glen Johnson, Pedro Mendes, Sean Davis, Andy Cole, Dean Kiely etc etc
lmatthews
The average age between them can't be a pretty sight surely?
James and Cole are there for a final Premiership Pay day...
Salford Red
mixture, look at the age gap between Jamie Ashdown, Matt Taylor, Garry O'neil, Davis, Benjani, Gken Johnson
lmatthews
Surely you cant claim Ashdown having already mentioned two other goalkeepers.
Come on now ;)
Salford Red
why we have two old keepers and one two young ones
lmatthews
If we were really interested in Defoe we would of followed up with a bid that would tempt Spurs into selling Defoe. More Storrie Bullsit it smell.
It's a bit like the Petrov saga, Celtic didn't want to sell because there was no time for them to find a replacement, More Storrie Bullsit as Petrov signed for Villa and Celtic signed Graveson from Real Madrid.
nelson
From what I gather from the Spurs websites, he was never for sale & £6m was well short of their valuation. It may have been another PS smokescreen. Sadly, as I have said on many occasions, he is the one player I think we should have broken the bank for.
storagematt
I definately think he won't be for sale now.
Expect Defoe to be in the starting lineup tomorrow against us.
Fickle management...you bet! Unlucky fellahs. Shame nobody could pick him up whilst he was all but "unwanted" he's looked red-hot for England!
Salford Red
We'd never get Defoe for that money we're kidding ourselves if we thought we could. £10m would have been the lowest we should have bid if he as really wanted. How could we have offered £15m (as we are reported to have earlier in the summer and only £6m now...
pompeyrug
Come on lets be serious, unless there is actually not as much money as we thought harry had, there is no doubt he should fork out top cash for top players. You'll probably find that because it would have probably been a deadline day transfer, he should of offered about 13mil probably would have got him for that!
Westov
Would easily have got Defoe for that, would maybe have been given change as well :) with another thanks for shopping at White Hart Lane... We'd be getting loyalty points by then...
pompeyrug
Defoe will be on his way in the transfer window.... Will get him then i feel... When were above spurs pushing for europe and there well not even in the top half... They have be really crap so far this year
Play Up Pompey
I would like to see Defoe at Pompey. Do you think he will come in January or do you think we have missed the chance now. He has played well for England and I think a bit more interest may be going his way from other clubs. All depends how we are doing in January.
POMPEYMEV
DEFOE is not DEFRIEND....but I dink dattledo.
pompeygray
Have Your Say
Log in...
with your social network OR with your Vital account
Recent Articles
On this day in history...19th June (Wednesday June 19 2013)
Pompey start and finish at home (Wednesday June 19 2013)
Game on?! (Tuesday June 18 2013)
On this day in history...18th June (Tuesday June 18 2013)
Pompey face our biggest neighbours in Capital one (Monday June 17 2013)
A preference anyone? (Sunday June 16 2013)
On this day in history...16th June (Sunday June 16 2013)
If it aint broke... (Saturday June 15 2013)
On this day in history...15th June (Saturday June 15 2013)
Rooney another possibility for Pompey (Friday June 14 2013)
Archived Articles
Vital Members League (view all)
| 1. | eastneydave | 32 |
| 2. | Pompeytim | 26 |
| 3. | mslorna48 | 24 |
| 4. | pompeyrug | 20 |
| 5. | Jimsmithswig | 18 |
| 6. | storagematt | 11 |
| 7. | Lemmi | 7 |
| 8. | Gandor1 | 5 |
| 9. | dedmans | 4 |
| 10. | PFCblue | 4 |
League Results (view all)
| Latest Results |
League Table (view table)
| Team | P | W | D | L | GD | Pts |
| 14. Northampton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15. Oxford | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16. Plymouth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17. Portsmouth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18. Rochdale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19. Scunthorpe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20. Southend | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Breaking League News
| Roger Harding Passes Away.
» Bristol Rovers : 19/06/2013 17:17:00
|
| Rovers Open With Exeter Test
» Bristol Rovers : 19/06/2013 16:54:00
|
| Foyle snaps up former City winger
» York : 19/06/2013 16:10:00
|
| York target joins Tranmere
» York : 19/06/2013 15:48:00
|
| Gentle start for City newcomer
» York : 19/06/2013 15:32:00
|
| Target could be Rovers bound
» York : 19/06/2013 15:05:00
|
| Former City favourite on the move
» York : 19/06/2013 14:07:00
|
Current Site Poll (view all polls)
|
|
1 © - All content copyright Vital Network Ltd, not to be reproduced without explicit permission Copyright Issues
Cookie Policy
At Vital Football, we along with most other modern websites use small files called 'cookies' to create the most secure, effective and functional website possible for our users. Without these files our business model, based on advertising, breaks down and we would be unable to continue to provide the services that you are here to utilise. By continuing to use this website after seeing this message, you consent to our use of cookies on this device unless you have disabled them. For full details please read our Cookie Policy which can be found here. However, if you would like to disable cookies on this device, please view our Cookie Policy which contains an opt-out tool for disabling advertising cookies. Please also visit our information pages on 'How to manage cookies' if you would also like to block all other types of cookies. Please be aware that parts of this site will not function correctly if you disable cookies.