Portsmouth will move for their former midfielder Amady Faye in the close season - whether they are relegated or no.
Harry Redknapp is keen to take the Newcastle United midfielder back to Fratton Park and he will be allowed to go.
Faye has not figured in any of Glenn Roeder's starting line-ups since he returned from the African Nations Cup at the beginning of February.
The Senegal international has found himself way down in the pecking order because United are so well off for midfielders, even though Scott Parker is out for the rest of the season with glandular fever.
Meanwhile, another midfielder could be out of the St James' Park door after Birmingham City beat Bolton Wanderers at St Andrews last night.
For Steve Bruce's side are now out of a relegation spot for the first time since October and if Brum do avoid the drop, Nicky Butt will stay with them on a permanent transfer next season.
If Birmingham are relegated, Butt will be back at St James' Park for pre-season training at the beginning of July.
Butt limped off against Bolton in the first half with hamstring trouble and could be out for some time.
There's no European football these days at St James' Park, of course, but United fans will have noted the way Inter Milan defender Marco Materazzi appeared to deliberately elbow Villareal's Sorin in the face in the Champions League last night.
For it was the former Everton defender who got Craig Bellamy sent off in the Champions League at St James' Park in 2002-3.
