Portsmouth goalkeeper David James can understand why Glen Johnson left the club for Liverpool.

"In some ways there has been progress since we won the FA Cup," he told the Daily Mail. "For certain individuals it has been great. Look at Glen Johnson. He started life with us on loan from Chelsea and now he's at Liverpool. He was fantastic for us. Someone I knew was going to be good from our days together at West Ham.

"But he's a guy who wants to spread his wings, as it were, and Liverpool amounted to an amazing opportunity for him. So I can understand a move like that.

"But here it seems any player who has a value becomes available. That's the bit I struggle with. Along one of the corridors at Fratton Park there's a big photograph of the team that won the Cup. I look at it every time I go to the stadium and most of the players are no longer here. And it was little more than a year ago."