Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie admits the club would be keen to sign Mark Viduka. "A fit Mark Viduka is still a very, very good experienced player and this is a special year for him because he has the opportunity to captain his country in the World Cup," Storrie told The News.

"We would be fools not to want Mark here. But at the moment he's still on vacation as I understand it.

"We would have to see what his fitness levels are like and how long it is going to be before he is fit.

"You never know, he might have been working out right the whole way through and be pretty fit. So of course he would interest us."