Certainly there have been a few tantilising hints from Dr Al Fahim, but given that he hardly needs lessons from Max Clifford in the art of self promotion, it would be safer to keep our counsel.

What does seem clear is that at least two of our current squad – in Peter Crouch and Niko Kranjcar – are not agitating to get away.

It has to be said there wasn’t much evidence before news of the takeover was announced that they were agitating to get away either – the same goes for Glen Johnson – but at least the question has been asked and the players made it clear they’re sticking around to see what happens.

That hasn’t stopped a hack somewhere from punting a huge great story about Sunderland – themselves recently taken over – about Steve Bruce – not yet their manager – making Crouch his first signing.

At this stage of proceedings, it hardly seems a likely one that.

But things can change. After all, the ‘leading candidate’ for the Pompey manager’s job is now former Inter boss Roberto Mancini.

Well he would be, except for the fact his tricky contractual relationship with his former club Inter Milan could make life hard to release him to take the job according to his agent.

The lack of hard evidence of anything much at all underlines the fact the media, like most others, are in the dark here.

Hopefully some more light will be shed soon…