As regular readers of the blog will know I am a Portsmouth fan. Still hurt and betrayed by Harry Redknapp, I have carried on with my love of the club whilst having a look over at what our former manager is doing.

One thing he does seem to be up to is unsettling other players. At Portsmouth Jermain Defoe has been unsettled enough to want to leave and join his former gaffer at WHL and now Stewart Downing looks set to hand in a transfer request to do just that as well according to the PA.

Redknapp has spoken about his pursuit of Defoe publicly and even went as far to say that he understood Portsmouth to have a 'massive massive' offer for the determinative front man. This was denied by Pompey and one has to ask oneself how he knew of this if he wasn't true and was it said just to unsettle the player?

Up at the Riverside Stewart Downing has long been linked with a move away from the club. However in recent weeks the speculation has reached fever pitch with a new story being in the press seemingly daily linking him with a move to White Hart Lane. Now where do the journalists get these stories from?

The cynical part of my brain (which in all fairness is a good portion of it) believes that it comes from Spurs themselves in a bid to unsettle a player. This seems a bit two-faced considering what they thought when Manchester United were in hot pursuit of Dimitar Berbatov in the last transfer window.

So will Defoe and Downing both end up WHL when all is said and done by February? I suspect they might very well do so...