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Long-serving Portsmouth defender Connor Ogilvie has signed a new two-year contract with the club.
The 30-year-old has made 196 appearances and scored 13 goals since joining the club from Gillingham five years ago.
He helped Pompey win the League One title in 2024 and has gone on to be a regular in the side in the Championship.
“The fact that, whenever fit, he has always featured since I’ve been at
Can Portsmouth nail the summer transfer window?
They certainly did in John Mousinho and Richard Hughes’ first summer together in 2023, constructing a squad that won promotion from League One.
Three of last season’s first choice back four arrived in that summer. The past two years have been more of a mixed bag, with Championship survival requiring good January windows.
They still need to secure their own free agents. New
Kenny Jackett arrived at Fratton Park at a strange time.
The club had just won promotion from League Two but manager Paul Cook had walked away to join Wigan Athletic.
Michael Eisner’s purchase of the club from the Pompey Supporters Trust was being completed. The League Two promotion side was breaking up, with key players Enda Stevens and Michael Doyle having already departed.
For the first 18 months, Jackett did
“Promotion as League One champions, staying up – kind of against the odds – two seasons running, particularly this last season when your main contributor in terms of creation, Josh Murphy, missed 22 Championship games and Colby Bishop had an off year.
“There were injuries as well, many of them, and yet Pompey still stayed up pretty comfortably.”
“It would be crazy if anyone wanted to get rid of John
BBC Radio Solent’s Pompey commentator Andrew Moon
Clearly, Marlon Pack has many attributes that might make him a good coach one day. However, that journey can wait for at least another year given his performances this season.
Pack played in 34 of Pompey’s 46 league games this season, including starting all five of the crucial run from Good Friday which secured survival.
He’s still in great shape and has always
“Eight goal contributions in the last six games. The fact Adrian Segecic has put it together at the end… he’s gone from someone you think ‘he could be a good player next season’ to someone you think ‘is someone going to be looking at buying him this summer’ – has he made a late push for the Croatia World Cup squad? You never know.
“We know Wrexham came in for
Birmingham went close in the early moments through Carlos Vicente as Jay Stansfield won the ball high and fed the winger on the right but nobody was there to meet the cross.
Pompey took the lead with Segecic’s fifth goal in three games as he found space in the area to collect Jordan Williams’ cutback before firing home.
Priske levelled inside 20 minutes, powering a free header home from Kai
I’ve been to managerial press conferences that have been tense. Awkward topics get raised and things can get frosty or hostile quite quickly.
This was not the case with John Mousinho on Wednesday. For the best part of an hour he took questions on his future in a composed, relaxed and thoughtful way.
What did we learn? Mousinho was adamant that at this stage there has been no contact between
Portsmouth boss John Mousinho says he is not currently looking to leave the club but is flattered by stories linking him with a potential move to Championship rivals Bristol City.
The 39-year-old, who was appointed in January 2023, led Pompey to the League One title in 2024, has successfully kept the club in the Championship for the past two seasons and is holding talks with players, agents and
Portsmouth travelled to Stoke knowing they were already assured of safety, but the win was enough to lift them up to 18th and to within a place and a point of Stoke.
Goalkeeper Josef Bursik was brought in as one of five Portsmouth changes for the trip to Staffordshire, but he lasted only four minutes before going off injured to be replaced by Killip.
Segecic opened the scoring in the