Call me nosey or call me inquisitive but I just could not resist the temptation.
After the announcement came through, last night, that Luton Town had offloaded Joe Morrell to Portsmouth, I just had to see what the reaction was on the Portsmouth social media sites.
And it appears my nosiness was well based.
Reading through the hundreds of comments left, you would think that Portsmouth have pulled off the signing of the decade.
The way the signing has been greeted you would think that Pompey have signed Lionel Messi not Joe Morrell.
It would not surprise me if some of the Portsmouth fraternity were out dancing in the streets when the news filtered through that Morrell had put pen-to-paper on a contract.
If you do not believe me, take a look at the posts below:
Brilliant! Great signing! This is why I love this club #BlueArmy
— Steve Leaver (@StevenLeaver) August 9, 2021
HAHAHAHHA COWLEY I LOVE YOU
— Jack Briant (@JackBriant6) August 9, 2021
OMGG🤩🤩🤩🤩
— Jake😯 (@jaketet03) August 9, 2021
I have never been more happy about a signing get in
— Porthos (@StarTrekFan15) August 9, 2021
Get in you beauty!!!!
— Stuart Groombridge (@stug9) August 9, 2021
And the joy continued with some not being able to resist a sly dig at Ipswich Town who, yesterday, were in the running to land the Welsh midfielder:
HAHAHA TAKE THAT IPSWICH
— Steve (@smilersteve1) August 9, 2021
Do one Ipswich
— Ben Tarling (@BenTarling5) August 9, 2021
But perhaps the best post I found, on the Pompey site, came from a Luton Town fan who simply declared:
Just robbed you of 500K 🤩🤩🤩
— LTFC Edh 🎩 (@ltfcEdh) August 9, 2021
Now I am not sure the fee was £500,000, as mentioned in our article covering the transfer – midfielder-finally-leaves-the-club – but any fee received for the player fits the message.
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Hi MH….tell them nothing, nobody warned us…lol…coulson off to Ipswich then…..Will big match revisited ever show us winning….
I thought they brought Kyle Edwards instead of the Portsmouth guy?
one day Alan, one day, we’ll witness a Hatters win!
good luck joe morrell,you will need it. if you can get your head out of your a**e,you might suprise everybody.
Coulson on a season loan….
Ipswich that is, not us….lol…
after learning he’s been out on loan at Cambridge I decided he wasn’t for me!
Hi Alan, I did say Ipswich were also interested. Must have money to burn I think that’s 14 new players!!!
Ed sheeran pumping money in I wouldn’t mind betting chris…
I heard he’s got his own shirt at Ipswich and is in the team photo this season, such is his love of the club and the amount of money he’s invested
not good enough for the championship,drops down to league 1 for match time,pesonally i think ipswich dodged a bullet
Was rather sceptical when we signed him last year given his lack of starts for Bristol City.Obviously didn’t fit in at Luton either. So,that to me tells a tale.N.J. doesn’t often get it wrong but I guess if you
fall foul of the boss, you may as well get on your bike.Wish him well at Pompey and hope we managed to get a few quid for him.
Interesting, MH your comments re Ed Sheeran and his “love ” for Ipswich Town. I am an exiled Hatter living in Suffolk and my boy was at school with Sheeran. He reckons Sheeran never had much interest in football then. Strange, then, that he should have waited a few years before declaring an interest in ITFC. Maybe he didn’t agree with the Evans regime. For me, though, it’s great to be able to lord it over their fans – most of whom still live in the Robson era – for yet another season !
Same as Jeremy Clarkson, hated footy until his son wanted to go, now he follows Chelsea avidly!