Back at the Lane, back scoring goals.
One of the deadliest forwards in the English game, Defoe’s Pompey career got off to a blistering start, with goals in each of his first five home games after signing from Spurs in the January 2008 transfer window.
But then goalscoring has always been second nature to him: he’s averaged around one every other game in his career – including a post-war league record of 10 in 10 consecutive games while on loan at Bournemouth from West Ham in 2000/01.
Though his England career has been rather more fitful, he was on target twice in England’s summer tour success against Trinidad and Tobago – and now he has been teamed up with England colleague Peter Crouch at club level, both men will hope to give Fabio Capello food for thought by starring for an increasingly Anglophile Pompey side.
Once Defoe's mentor, Harry Redknapp had left for Spurs during the early part of the 2008/2009 season it was envitable that the striker would soon be back there too.
Defoe re-signed for Tottenham in the 2009 winter transfer window for £15m. Doubling Portsmouth's price tag of Defoe the previous season.