Niko Kranjcars Portsmouth future in doubt

Kranjcar is officially committed to the south coast club until the end of next season, and in a show of loyalty the winger insisted that he will "never forget" Portsmouth for introducing him to European football, and would not walk out early.

However, the 24-year-old knows that should he refuse to sign a new deal this year the club will no doubt look to cash in on him to help alleviate some of their financial burden.

And should Portsmouth decide to do so, Kranjcar is confident that he will be able to secure a move to a Champions League club, whether that be in England or elsewhere in Europe.

"We've had discussions about a new contract but we've put them on hold until the summer," the Croatian said. "I've got my contract for another year-and-a-half and I'm happy to see it out. But at the end of the day if I don't sign a new one the club will probably try to sell me in the summer.

"If a bigger club, if a top-four club, or big clubs from Europe come in and want to get me, and if the price is right, of course I would like to go and play Champions League.

"I do hope and I do believe that my career is going to go upwards from here but I am committed to Portsmouth and I am thankful to Portsmouth. It's Portsmouth who gave me the first opportunity in European football and that's something I will never forget.

"I always said I would stay in January - and that's what I did. What the summer's going to bring, no-one knows. I've got my contract until a year-and-a-half and I'm not going to walk out on it. If they are going to sell me they are going to sell me, but it's still my decision if I want to go anywhere."



Nika:

I'm actually happy he's moving. He's a class player and he deserves a better club. At first I was really sad he's going to move but now, he needs to. He's still young and needs to move on. I'm actually hoping he's not going to move to an England club. Spanish and Italian is acceptable but Turkey and Greece is far off. I'll be looking forward.

Stoke City 2-2 Portsmouth: Pompey deserve 3 points!

What the fuck of a match is that!?! Pompey did well as shit and the Reff's a fucked-up cunt to give the penalty! Fuck the dumbass reff! Johnson's hand didn't even reach the ball! It wasn't a handball, you cunt! He chested the ball bitch! A very poor decision by the dumbass reff! I'll jail the Reff if I'm the president of England!

So the match ended up with a tie thanks to the dumbass reff. I still think Pompey deserve the 3 points. They've worked so hard through the match but The Stokes are given WHAT-OTHERS-CALLED-ONE-POINT from the match. I think the Penalty was a mistake. Pompey deserve all 3 points and I do agree with the Commentators.

1-2 would be a great score by the end of the match. I don't mind the second goal by the Stokes. It's fair as fuck and Pompey did an error. But the first one's a letdown. I don't hate the Stokes but I hate the unexperience Reff.

First goal and leading was Pompey's Niko Kranjcar and assist by Nugent. He kicked the ball from 12 yards away from the goalpost and scored from the bottom left of the goal. Second was the stupid penalty/equalizer by the Stokes, third and leading was Stokes' Pugh and last and equalize was an owngoal by the Stokes' defender.

I'm still mad about the reff' stupid decision and Johnson was right complaining about it in the end of the match but it's too late.

release stress:



Kranjcar: "get a taste of my super kick!!"



Crouch: "Did the ball hit me? Di-did it hit me?"
Diao: "How can a Black Man sees where the ball go when white man is on top of black man?"



Nigger: slides
Kranjcar: "lol, you slide like a girl!"
Nigger: "well, you walk like a girl..."



Sidibe: having an orgasm
Krnajcar: "Umm... what's the hell is wrong with this nigger?"
other nigger: "He's gay..."
Kranjcar: "WTF!!!"



Kranjcar: "Weee~ I goaled!"
Mullins: "Yeah but why celebrate at the Stokes' fans?"
Kranjcar: looks back, "... Let's run! They'll throw stones at us!"



Hermann: "Another goal by the Hermanator!"
Mullins: "It's an owngoal..."
Kanu: "Let the Iceman have his moment!"



James: "Just wait! Next match I'll grow wings! I'll be the best keeper ever!"



Crouch: "My ball fell out!"



Paul Hart: "Look at the pretty butterfly~ How could it be so pretty?~"
Kidd: "Shouldn't you be watching the match?"



White dude: "Dude! Nice Tattoo! Where you get it?"
Pennant: "That's my birth mark..."

Back and happy

I'm back from that nasty shoulder injury and I've been feeling fine for the pass few days but what I'm happy is Pompey won 2-0 with Manchester City! First win of Pompey in 2009!... why do I sound so happy? This is February and they just won? I'll blame it all on Tony Adams. Good thing he's already sacked and now the caretaker, Paul Hart AT LEAST earn Pompey POINTS. Not like Tony Adams who can't even win any points for Pompey even to a team that just got to Premier League.

So anyway back to the match, Johnson scored in the first half opening the first goal of the game and lead Pompey. He shoots the ball but hits Given, Manchester City's keeper and the ball bounce back at him, he dribbled a bit, shoot and score from 12 yards away from the goal post.

Johnson's goal is followed by Hermann Hreidarsson and sealed the three points when Hreidarsson scored by he's header to the net in 12 yards away from the net. Assisted by Pennant's corner.



I didn't really had a chance watching the full match so I'm not sure what's their problem or errors in the match but one thing's for sure, Nugent gotta improve his accuracy and control his speed. Crouch have to make use of he's height and try to head the ball in more this time. Kranjcar didn't do so well in the match and he have to improve in passing and dribbling.

So tomorrow is Portsmouth against Stoke City or should I say The Potters in the night time, Diportivo La Coruna against Valencia and Sporting Mallorca. I hope they all improve from their last match, ESPECIALLY Diportivo La Coruna which lost to AaB 3-0 and drew with Osasuna and Mallorca in the pass few weeks.

Won't be on till further notice

I'm not going to be on for a few days, could be weeks because I got this shoulder injury. A normal injury could be possible but I'm not going to x-ray it and not interested as well. I wanted it to heal by itself. I don't like hospitals.

How I got the injury?
How it feels like?
Which shoulder?
When I'll be back.

Well, I was back from religious school and you guys know how boring we intend to feel so I just turn on the Nintendo Wii and thought I would enjoy a one or two game of tennis. It was easy at first but as I'm facing more tough players it started to get intense. In the end I stopped and have a break. When I lifted up my mug, my hand feels like it's soulless. Now I can move it but it hurts like my hand is about to fall off.

It feels like hell dudes. If you want to experience the same thing as me then be sure to do something like me but I recommend DON'T. Reason why footballers could handle injuries like this is because they are paid to broke their bones.

I'm a left hand player so I hurt my left hand. It's hard cause things started to get painful to do house-work.

I'm not sure when I'll be on. It hurts just typing these words. So I'll meet you guys when I'm better.

I idolize torpedo kid

Name: Jonathan Rodriguez Pereira
Age: 21 (Born in 1987)
Position: Striker
Team: Racing Santander (loan)
current: Villarreal

Height: 1.65 cm

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Reason why I ldolize:

This dude is insane! I'm a huge fan of Pereira because he's an amazing striker. He knows what to do best next to Zigic. He's as tall as my sister but he torpedoes well. I just don't like to see him fall on the ground because he looks really fragile and small even though if he cause the the fall. An amazing player like him really deserve an amazing club which is Racing Santander. I just hope the manager of Racing buys him. He's a talented player!

Jonathan Pereira

Real Madrid 1-0 Racing Santander: Well match played by the Santanders

MADRID - Gonzalo Higuain's 13th goal of the season helped Real Madrid beat Racing Santander 1-0 and notch its seventh straight Spanish league victory on Saturday.

Higuain raced onto Raul Gonzalez's glancing headed pass in the 49th minute, cut back to evade a desperate lunge by Santander defender Cesar Navas and sidefooted an angled shot past goalkeeper Tono Rodriguez.

The victory moved the defending champion to nine points behind Barcelona, although the leader has the chance to restore its 12-point advantage if it beats Sporting Gijon on Sunday for its 10th straight win.

Attention was focused on Madrid captain Raul during the game at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. However, the former Spain striker failed to score the goal he needed to take his career tally to 308 and become the powerhouse's all-time topscorer ahead of the great Alfredo Di Stefano.

Meanwhile, Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas was playing his 454th official match, equaling the club record set by Paco Buyo in the 1980s and 90s.

In Saturday's late game, second-half goals by Sergio Garcia and Ricardo Oliveira brought Real Betis a 2-1 win over Sevilla, its first victory in 13 years at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium of its crosstown rival.

Barcelona has 56 points, Madrid 47, and Sevilla stayed in third with 38.

Also on Sunday, off-form Atletico Madrid aims to improve under new coach Abel Resino, who replaced the fired Javier Aguirre this week, when it visits Recreativo Huelva.

Other games are: Malaga versus Almeria; Valladolid versus Athletic Bilbao; Getafe versus Espanyol; Villarreal versus Numancia; Mallorca versus Deportivo La Coruna; and Osasuna versus Valencia.

Madrid has taken 21 out a possible 24 points since Juande Ramos replaced fired coach Bernd Schuster last December, although the team had to resist a late charge by Santander to achieve this latest victory.

"I think we had enough chances to score a second goal ... but when it didn't come the nerves appeared. The positive thing is that the team didn't concede any goals and we've got three points more," Ramos was quoted as saying by news agency Efe.

While Madrid dominated the first half, with Sergio Ramos and Arjen Robben almost opening the scoring, Casillas tipped over a drive by Santander forward Jonathan Pereira in the 40th minute.

Santander players left the field in angry mood at halftime just after Pereira appeared to be kicked on the ground by Madrid defender Gabriel Heinze after being pushed over by his teammate Pepe. Referee Carlos Clos Gomez took no action against either Madrid player.

Madrid's recent signing from West Ham, winger Julien Faubert, replaced Robben in the 61st minute to make his debut and four minutes later Pereira spurned a chance to equalize by slicing his shot well wide of Casillas' left post.

Casillas then dived to frustrate Pereira again in the 74th although the Madrid goalkeeper was forced to watch nervously as the ball bounced off Pepe and almost into his goal.

Betis' Garcia swivelled to make contact with a long, floated kick from defender Juan (Melli) Andreu in the 70th minute to send Sevilla on its way to third straight league defeat.

A minute earlier, Sevilla midfielder Aldo Duscher received his second yellow card and was ejected from a characteristically fierce local derby.

Brazil international Oliveira, who was playing his first game since recently rejoining Betis from second-division Zaragoza, added the second goal by firing an angled shot through the legs of goalkeeper Andres Palop 13 minutes later.

Sevilla striker Frederic Kanoute reduced the deficit in injury time when he headed home from defender Fernando Navarro's cross from the left.

While the match between the rivals from the Andalusian city has in the past been marred by crowd violence, there were no reports of trouble this time.



Pereira can torpedo people like hell. Schneider got a minor injury by this rocking torpedo. You rock Pereira! I idolize this small footballer.

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Deportivo La Coruna 3-0 Villarreal: Well done Lafita!

Depor bounced out of their slump emphatically yesterday at the Riazor, beating rivals Villareal emphatically, 3 - 0.

Angel Lafita was the hero yet again, setting us on our way with an early strike and adding a second shortly after the hour-mark, before Riki completed the scoring with a solo effort moments later. They were all great goals too, I particularly enjoyed the second, the ball seemed to move in slow motion almost.

Villarreal were dead and buried but they were at least handed the chance to restore some pride with a dubious-looking penalty as Mati Fernandez went down under the challenge of Alberto Lopo on 74 minutes.

However, it mattered little as the returning Aranzubia beat away Senna’s spot-kick to keep his own clean-sheet intact and to maintain the charge for Europe.

Juan Carlos Valeron got a huge cheer before the match too, when his name was called out. He was starting his first home game for a few years.

The win moves Superdepor to within touching distance of the top six, and manager Miguel Lotina beamed, “It was perhaps the most complete performance since I have became manager here.

“We scored after two minutes and because we made it 1-0 so early in the match it made it easier for us to have a good match.”

The win ended their losing streak and Lotina insisted that a combination of skill and hard work had allowed them to turn their form around.

He continued, “The team has struggled, but we have trained hard and had fight to get a victory, we have great quality and now we have found our form back.”

Next up is a trip to Mallorca, and suddenly things dont seem so bad.

Plus we have a nicer kit than Villareal too.

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Portsmouth 2-3 Liverpool: Best response after 11 unwinning games

It was a well played match by the Blues and I couldn't really say I can predict that match. They've improved so much but still with the errors. It was a strange atmosphere at home though. I was the only one supporting Portsmouth since my family are supporting the Reds so it wasn't a nice celebration but I can live with it.

Well done to be honest. Liverpool is a tough team which defend well but aren't they are well in attacking. I got to say they follow their mood.

It was a 0-0 at first half so it really makes me expect more than just 1. I was right anyway~ First goal was by Pompey's David Nugent who celebrate his second goal at 62' but Liverpool crash the lead with Ourelio's goal at 69'. Pompey seem to lead again with Hermann's goal from a set piece followed by his header & into the net. I got to say Reina did a horrible move to miss that. Hermann's ball is as easy as catching a fallen feather. But still, well done by Hermann. At that point I thought the Iceland man has put the ice on top of the game but then Liverpool equalized & lead at the last minute by Dirk Kuyt & Fernando Verdasco... Wait!! What the hell is up with Verdasco? Get back to tennis... I mean Fernando Torres.

To me it's an unsatisfying match eventhough Pompey did well. I didn't really accept Torres' goal. It's really late to make Liverpool on top again. Portsmouth deserve something and I think it's 1 point because in history, there's not a team that didn't win for 11 matches and delivers that kind of game with PL's top 4 & also manage by Tony Adams. They do deserve something.

I'm proud of the fans as well. The atmosphere is amazing but Pompey's cheer unable to make Pompey themselves wake up and shoot another goal. It was a 2-3 lost at Fratton Park & Liverpool steals the top table of EPL.



You did well Nuge.

Good news for Niko

Niko Kranjcar picked up an a groin injury against Tottenham Hotspurs and he is now claimed to be back training.

The 24-year-old midfielder will be x-ray today but i'm not sure what's the result. I hope he could be a substitution at the Liverpool clash which is this Saturday, 1730 at England and 0030 at Brunei (if I did my math right).

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New recruit from Greece

Portsmouth have signed their second Greece international of the transfer window after landing midfielder Angelos Basinas.

The 33-year-old follows fellow countryman Theofanis Gekas into Fratton Park after agreeing an 18-month contract with the south coast club.

Pompey boss Tony Adams landed striker Gekas from Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday before setting his sights on Greece international captain Basinas.

Basinas has joined from AEK Athens and will bring experience to the Pompey midfield after winning 97 international caps.

The former Panathinaikos and Real Mallorca midfielder was also the skipper of the Greece side which won the European Championship in 2004.

"He's exactly what we need in the situation we're in," executive chairman Peter Storrie told the club's official website.

"He's a player that Tony (Adams) was keen to bring in.

"He desperately wanted to come here and we have the option to sign him for a further year after the 18 months."



Pompey has signed Bayer Leverkusin striker (finally, a striker) Theofanis Gekas on loan until the end of he season, with a view to a permanent deal.

The switch is subject to international clearence.

The 28-year-old Greece striker will wear the number 29 for the Blues.

Tony Adams believes that Gekas can adapt to life in Premier League straight away.



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This really worries me but the team still hold on.

From football.co.uk:

(Sylvain Distin has admitted Portsmouth are in serious danger of relegation after a nightmare run of results under new manager Tony Adams. The former Manchester City defender was a member of Harry Redknapp's FA Cup-winning team last season, but the club have nosedived since their big day at Wembley. Since Redknapp's departure in October Portsmouth have managed just two Premier League wins under their new boss and have slipped from 7th to 16th in the table.)

(If Portsmouth
are serious about attracting new owners it might not be a bad idea to find a way of staying in the Premier League.
Avram Grant is obviously not the answer, but neither is Tony Adams and the club need to be creative and decisive to get out of the hole they are in.

Feeling the strain: Adams is putting on a brave face After losing to Fulham last weekend, manager Adams said: 'I'll pick us up and get on with the next game and rally the troops. I don't run away.')

Things in Pompey are falling apart and I'm really sad about it. The conditions there isn't as nice as it was when Harry Redknapp was the manager. Portsmouth is experiencing doomsday for now. The only thing to put smiles to Pompey is to sack Adams. I'm sorry but that's just the way it is. Pompey is a talented team with amazing players. They never drop from 7th to 16th or something but I'm still happy the players are still holding on to Pompey.

(revealed that he turned down the opportunity to sign for Barcelona during the January transfer window. Strange decision: Nadir Belhadj turned down Barcelona. The Algerian international arrived at Fratton Park on loan at the start of the season, and was contacted about a move to the Nou Camp last month. However, he instead opted to complete a permanent deal at Fratton Park in the hope of playing first team football on a more regular basis. 'Barcelona? My agent was contacted during the winter transfer window,' the 26-year-old told Aujourd'hui Sport. 'They wanted to prepare for the departure of Sylvinho and (Eric) Abidal was injured. 'It was very attractive, but I want to play. I don't want to experience a substitute situation again. I suffered at Lyon. 'It made me mad when Fabio Grosso was not good, but remained in the starting XI. I could do my best, but that didn't change anything.')

(Portsmouth manager Tony Adams is delighted to have kept midfielder Sean Davis at the club for at least the rest of the season.

Bolton Wanderers were keen to take the 29-year-old before the transfer deadline passed, but Adams was adamant that he did not want lose Davis ahead of a possible relegation battle.)

I just hope Portsmouth would do more than kicking the ball in their match against Liverpool...