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The 18-year-old has played in three per-season friendlies for Portsmouth and

Portsmouth hope to sign Reading's Nicky Shorey and Tottenham's Younes Kaboul before Sunday's FA Community Shield match against Manchester United at Wembley.

is not going to Ipswich. He's going to fight for his place at Portsmouth. Good lad.

Scolari will now place his faith in Anelka for the Premier League opener against Portsmouth on August 16 rather than risk Drogba, who is in London recovering from a knee injury.

It would be based on the successful Asia Cup pre-season competitions, which have included the likes of Liverpool, Portsmouth and Birmingham in recent years.

With Didier Drogba getting ever closer to returning to training after a knee injury, Scolari admits he has some tough decisions to make before the meaningful action kicks off against Portsmouth on 17 August.

Didier will not play in our first game against Portsmouth and will probably miss the second against Wigan. If there are no more problems he should be ready for the game after that, said Scolari.

Premier League match against Portsmouth. The Brazilian manager may want to

line-up for Chelsea's opening match of the season against Portsmouth on

Lilian Thuram has tipped Portsmouth's Lassana Diarra to fill his boots as a leader of France for years to come.