There's nothing better than a deal that turns out to be value for money – especially in football. Pompey have had a fare few down the years and we've picked out 25 of the very best...
21. Paul Walsh
Cost Pompey £400,000 from Spurs just days after Darren Anderton moved in the opposite direction in 1992. Struck up a superb partnership with Guy Whittingham before he was sold to Man City for £750,000 in 1996. | Freelance Photo: .
22. Guy Whittingham
It cost Pompey just £450 to buy the striker out of the British Army. He bagged 104 times before departing for Aston Villa in 1993 - working out at £4.32 a goal! Returned to the Blues in 1999. | Freelance Photo: Pete Langdown
23. Yakubu
It cost Pompey £4m to turn the striker's loan spell from Maccabi Haifa permanent in 2003 after helping Harry Redknapp's side clinch the Division One crown. Blues made a £3.5m profit when he departed for Boro in 2005. | Freelance Photo: Mike Egerton