Pompey boss Tony Adams has told current owner Sacha Gaydamak that he will quit as manager if Jermain Defoe or any other players he wants to keep, are sold.
There have been plenty of rumours surrounding some of Pompey's top players with a move away from Fratton Park in January, most of them being linked with Harry Redknapp at Spurs, but Adams isn't going to let them go without a fight.
Adams said: "He's a threat (in front of goal) and I'm sure there will be some big clubs trying to get him but hands off because he's mine.
"Big offers? I can't wait ...because the owner has been very supportive and although I've not made an issue of it I've told him that everyone stays who I want to stay or I don't do the job.
"I told him that at the very start. He was very supportive of Harry and now he's being very supportive of me.
"He phones me on the way home and says 'what do you want, Tony, how can I help you and I say keep Defoe where he is and there's no problem. He says fine, anything else?' He's totally behind me."
Along with Defoe, Lassana Diarra, Niko Kranjcar, Glen Johnson, Sol Campbell and David James have all be linked with a move away from Pompey.Despite this, James has already stated his intentions to fulfil the whole of his contract at Fratton Park, which will keep the England stopper at Portsmouth until 2010.
Niko Kranjcar has most recently been linked with a £12m move to Spurs, with Diarra being linked with Man City, Spurs and Man Utd.
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