Bargain striker Mornar can keep Pompey alive

HARRY REDKNAPP has been up to his old tricks again — and those tricks might just be good enough to keep Portsmouth in the Premiership.

While Spurs went out and spent £7m (€10.2m) on West Ham's Jermain Defoe during the transfer window, Redknapp raided the bargain basement again and snapped up Croatian international striker Ivica Mornar from Anderlecht for £200,000 (€292,000).

Both players scored in Saturday's remarkable 4-3 win for Spurs over Pompey and it was abundantly clear that both teams have invested wisely although it is Redknapp who, as ever, will be laughing all the way to the bank. When he was manager of West Ham he used to call his team 'Redknapp's Rejects' because he went out and acquired players other teams didn't want. Those rejects once got the hammers into Europe and while Portsmouth are a long way off from those heights, it is clear that Redknapp's nose for a bargain is taking them in the right direction.