Dressing room demands Redknapp stays

Player power will almost certainly ensure Harry Redknapp signs a new contract to manage Portsmouth again next season after he controversially returned to Fratton Park to engineer Barclays Premiership survival.

Chairman Milan Mandaric wants to sit down with Franco-Russian co-owner Alexandre Gaydamak and Redknapp this week to offer a new deal that will replace the one which expires at the end of the season and keep the veteran manager at the helm beyond his 60th birthday next March.