Well we have heard the rumour many, many times before but now its a reality.

After a long drawn out transfer day the signing of Defoe is official although, as only Pompey can do, it all ended in a bit of a mess.

At least this time it appears the mess is Man Citys doing as they were too late sending off Benjanis details to the FA, at the moment no one knows who actually owns Benjani. We managed to sort out our end by around 9pm and just waited for Man City to give the go ahead on their signing of Benjani which they did, later it turns out they didn't send all the paperwork and/or it arrived late and now it appears they may try and get out of the deal as Benjani may have failed his medical

As a supporter having both Benjani and Defoe in the team would be great but the money to buy Defoe was meant to come from Benjanis' sale and without that I'm not sure how I finances stand up.

Long term Defoe would be better for us than Benjani, being younger, a bettter goalscorer and English