Deadline Day RECAP: Portsmouth dealings are over following a quiet end to a busy transfer window

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Transfer deadline day is here - and we are in place to bring you all the latest news as the window closes.

The News will be right across developments at Fratton Park through the day and right up to the 11pm deadline tonight.

We’ll be looking out for the future of Denver Hume and, of course, any late curveballs when it comes to incomings and outgoings.

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On top of that, we will bring all the up-to-the-minute news from around League One with a frantic late day of business in prospect.

Join us throughout the day for all the insight, reaction, talking point and breaking news on deadline day.

Deadline Day

Key Events

  • No more Pompey arrivals
  • No more Pompey departures
  • Denver Hume stays

You still here? A bit like Denver Hume then. Otherwise it’s very, very quiet at Fratton Park.

So this is Jordan Cross signing off - and leaving you in the capable hands of chief sports writer Neil Allen to see you through until 11pm. Take care off yourselves, kids, and each other...

So the very latest, hot-off-the-press deadline day update from Pompey is....all is still quiet. Nothing to update on Hume’s departure from the news we broke at lunchtime of interest from Port Vale and Swindon - and probably more importantly no news of late, late moves for the club’s prized assets.

Tino Anjorin looks like he’s on the way to Pompey hero status!

Tino Anjorin believes he’s joined a south coast powerhouse in Pompey.

And the new arrival from Chelsea reckons that he’s arrived at an outfit who sit above fierce rivals Southampton in the south coast pecking order.

There’s big hopes for what the 21-year-can achieve with the London big guns, after making his Premier League debut at the age of 18 against Everton.

Despite his long association with Chelsea, Anjorin was actually born in Poole in Dorset and grew up in nearby Parkstone.

The former Huddersfield and Spartak Moscow loanee feels that makes him well placed to have a view on which clubs carry the most weight on the south coast.

Anjorin is well aware of Pompey’s standing, potential and fairly recent history at the highest level of the game.

His aim is clear with his target to help his new club back on the road to former glories.

Anjorin said: ‘I know Portsmouth is a massive club. I’m from down south, so I know they’re a bigger club than Bournemouth and Southampton.

‘We have to get Pompey back to where they belong.

‘I guess this is about the first steps in getting back up to those levels, so the ambition now is to get promotion.’

Pompey’s seven-year stint in the Premier League from 2003 until 2010 came in Anjorin’s formative years, with the attacking talent having a clear memory of his favourites.

The likes of Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe were top-drawer talents the England age-group international admired, at a time when the Blues could call upon the likes of Lassana Diarra, David James, Sol Campbell and Sylvain Distin.

Anjorin added: ‘I used to look up to players who played for Pompey, so I’m just really excited to be here.’

Here’s the latest done deals as the window reaches its climax

He was linked with Pompey in reports which were wide of the mark - now he’s joining the Blues’ rivals

Pompey linked striker Nathan Butler-Oyedji is to join Cheltenham Town on a season-long loan, according to reports.

Football Insider claimed earlier this week that Butler-Oyedji had been in talks with Pompey and Cambridge United, however a move to Fratton Park was a ‘non-starter‘. He was not considered a target for John Mousinho, and had never been on the radar, and so the Robins had a clear path at signing him.

GloucestershireLive report that Butler-Oyedji is is ‘set to sign’ for Cheltenham, and will return to League One having spent time at Accrington Stanley last season.

Pompey instead signed Tino Anjorin, who joined on a season-long loan from Chelsea on Thursday. He had been in talks with a move to Hampshire over the last month, and finalised his move yesterday. The Poole-born forward hailed assistant manager Jon Harley for the role that he played in persuadin him to the club.

The League One business so far

Feels a bit like the calm before the storm in League One so far - here’s the deals over the line so far today.

Kyle Edwards (Ipswich - Oxford loan).

Admiral Muskwe (Luton - Exeter loan).

John Kymani-Gordon (Palace - Cambridge loan).

Tennai Watson (MK Dons - Charlton free).

Here’s the full lowdown on Anthony Scully

As an aside, John Mousinho has been speaking about Anthony Scully’s fitness - here’s some of the raw quotes.

‘Anthony had the scan results back and a surgeon read the scan on Tuesday.

‘The results are prompting us to get another opinion on it, which sounds worse than it is.

‘Anthony had the scan results back and a surgeon read the scan on Tuesday.

‘The results are prompting us to get another opinion on it, which sounds worse than it is.

‘But what we need to do is compare the scan he had with the one he had in the summer as part of his medical.

‘That’s due diligence to see if there’s any difference there.

‘It’s not a situation where Anthony would have been touch and go for the weekend, so it’s fine to take a bit of extra time with it.

‘We want to see Anthony is back fit, firing and ready to train when he does come back.

‘So we’ll take a bit of time with it. It doesn’t seem one which is going to be a long injury, but if we have to take a minute to get it right then that’s what we’ll do.’

‘We want to give him the clarity that when he does step back on to the training pitch he’s 100 per cent.

‘Sometimes that means you’re playing through a bit of pain but it’s not doing more damage.

‘Mentally that alleviates any worries and means you can go full tilt - anyone who’s played football will know that feeling. We want to put him into as good a frame of mind as possible.’