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BBC News
30-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Pompey player contract talks next week
Portsmouth are planning talks with out-of-contract players next John Mousinho says he will not tell players of any decisions about their futures until after Saturday's final Championship game of the season at home to Hull City (12:30 BST)."We've had a couple of meetings this week with players who are in contract but we didn't want to distract any of the out-of-contract players because it's unfair before the weekend," Mousinho told BBC Radio Solent."Any conversations we've had this week have been very straightforward and any of the ones which take more care and diligence we'll do on Monday."Defenders Zak Swanson and Cohen Bramall are two of the first-team players whose deals are due to expire at the end of the season, although Pompey do retain an option to extend Swanson's contract. Mousinho admits they have not made final decisions on everyone's future."We're still mulling over a few things and we have a couple of meetings on Friday with the board where we want to check things first before we make any decisions," he added."The conversations where you're letting players go aren't great but there's a lot of reward when you give a new contract but ultimately they're not nice conversations a lot of the time because you're talking about people's livelihoods so you have to tread carefully."
BBC News
23-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'There will be more money available'
Portsmouth boss John Mousinho has said they will "add to the budget" next season and there will be more "money available" for them to spend on the playing squad. With safety confirmed in the Championship for another season having worked with one of the smallest budgets in the division, Mousinho has already shared his desire for the club to establish themselves in the second tier. "There's some exciting plans in place in terms of moving forward in the Championship," Mousinho told BBC Radio Solent."We're not going to be anywhere near the biggest spenders in the league but we're going to add to the budget and there will be more money available which will be great."We have to be ambitious and build, just staying in the Championship has given us half a chance of doing that, my overall feeling is one of excited as to where we can go as a club."Despite the encouraging season and immense progress shown, Mousinho still wants to manage expectations and says the long-term plan is not one to be rushed. "There is no massive rush next year to all of a sudden become a side challenging at the top end of the league," he added."That point will definitely come but for now we need to have the foundations in first and go from there, the strategy here is long term and we will build on that and continue next year."
BBC News
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Actor Marcus Harris publishes first novel after stroke
An actor known to audiences in the 1970s as one of Enid Blyton's Famous Five has released his first Harris played Julian in ITV's adaptation, which was filmed in the New Forest and Dorset in 1978 and 1979, and has also served as the mayor of Wallingford in Harris said he was driven to write his thriller, Running Away, two-and-a-half years ago after he suffered a doing so, he fulfilled a lifelong ambition to get a book published. "I have always wanted to write and I have always been writing and had a number of things rejected by various agents and publishers," Mr Harris told BBC Radio Solent."Two-and-a-half years ago I got out of bed on a Saturday morning and I hit the bedroom floor and luckily my wife got me into hospital within the hour because I had had a major stroke."I took five-and-a-half hours to come through it – my wife was told I was probably not going to make it and the family was assembled."As I woke up and come round having survived with no detriment at all, I thought, what are the things I haven't done with my life?"Mr Harris said he looked back fondly on the summers spent filming the Blyton classic."To live in Exbury and to film in the New Forest and Dorset for two years was just an amazing experience," he said."To live in a hotel and be treated like celebrities – that we weren't at that stage – was just absolutely phenomenal."He said once the programme ended, he suffered a "huge crash" – but that being recognised on the street "made for an interesting couple of years". You can follow BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
BBC News
01-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Far from good enough'
Portsmouth head coach John Mousinho said his side were "far from good enough" in their 1-0 defeat by Luton. The loss means his side stay 17th in the Championship managed only one shot on target throughout the game."It is difficult to sum up really. There was very little in the game. We killed ourselves in the first-half, I thought we were dreadful," Mousinho told BBC Radio Solent."I didn't think we did the basics right. The thing that sums up the first half is after about five minutes one of our central midfielders is on a booking for a ridiculous challenge and we are giving away free-kick after free-kick, it is a 180 [degree turn] of the gameplan."The attitude wasn't right. We were much better in the second half but it was too late. It was far from good enough."I don't think we were getting torn apart by a side that did anything extraordinary, we just made horrendous decisions. The goal came from our free-kick."Today was a massive opportunity to put a bit of daylight between us and the bottom three and we decided not to take it."
BBC News
26-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'We need to be wary of demands on players'
Portsmouth boss John Mousinho says there has to be a wariness around the demands placed on comes as the Pompey head coach chose not to disclose details of his injury list at his weekly news conference ahead of their Championship match at Luton on expectation was that Mousinho would outline the timelines for when defenders Rob Atkinson and Hayden Matthews would return but instead the Pompey boss will reserve that information until after Saturday's game."The best thing is I'll give you the full rundown after the game," Mousinho told BBC Radio Solent."You'll have a good idea of where we're at with the starting line-up on Saturday and I'll speak to you about it afterwards."Portsmouth have suffered a number of injuries throughout the season with long-term absentees including defender Conor Shaughnessy while they were also without Jordan Williams, Freddie Potts and Callum Lang for last weekend's win over QPR."I've been at the club for two years now and we've never had a clean bill of health," he added. "We were watching Championship games on Tuesday night and players were getting injured for various reasons."It's one of those seasons where it's only going to get worse with the state of the pitches and the weather and the demands on players so it's something we need to be wary of in the future."
