Poor Pompey. Twelve months ago they charged into the season coming off an FA Cup victory with a strike duo of Peter Crouch and Jermaine Defoe and a solid slew of talent around them. Now they crawl into the 2009/2010 season with a potential forward duo of Amr Zaki and Mark Viduka. If you read newspaper accounts isn't just looking at the health, potential and contract demands of Zaki, they're also questionning his sanity. I'm questionning their sanity for even looking at Viduka. What, Duncan Ferguson isn't available?
According to Eurosport on Zaki, from Portsmouth head Peter Storrie:
"With Zaki, firstly we would need to be sound and positive about the deal and, secondly, we certainly wouldn't pay any loan fee until we knew what the stability of the boy was like."
Good god. Poor Chuck Culpepper. How could Zaki have gone from leading the league in goals to sitting on the bench in such a short period of time other than the fact he carries a whole bunch of baggage? you have to wonder if the potential UAE ownership group is playing any role in them going after Zaki.
That being said, at least Zaki can score, something that surely can't be said about Mark Viduka any longer. Considering his age, 33, and recent performance its incredible that Viduka is even getting a a look from an EPL squad. At this point he should be on winter break gearing up for the A League season down under. Storrie is quoted in the Eurosport article that Viduka has a chance to regain the Australian captaincy in the run up to the World Cup. Considering Viduka has missed the entire qualification round and hasn't been a part of the side since 2007 he has about as a good a chance of captaining the Aussie team as Brian McBride has of captaining the US team once again-- which is none.
Coming to an EPL Ground near you. The dynamic strike force duo of the AWOL Egyptian and the aged Aussie who's pumped in a dynamic 7 goals in the past two seasons. What's the over under on number of points this season? 20? Where's Teddy Sheringham when you need him?
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