Erik Huseklepp has explained why he'd be happy to return to Pompey if the opportunity should arise.

The Norwegian got a great reception when he was introduced to the crowd at half-time during the recent Fratton clash with Accrington.

He has described the club and their fans as 'amazing' and said he'd love to come back - although at present he is settled in Norway with SK Brann.

He told the Sports Mail: ‘If there was a place I wanted to go back to it is definitely Portsmouth because I really enjoyed my time there. I am very sorry the way that things turned out.

‘If the chance popped up again I would consider it because of the atmosphere there. The club is amazing and the fans are amazing.

‘When I signed, I knew they had recently come down from the Premier League. But the idea when I was coming was to aim for the top-flight again — that is why I joined. The ambition of the club was maybe not to achieve that in my first season there but within two or three years the goal of the club was to go back up again.

‘Steve Cotterill was the man who got me and believed in me and I liked him as a manager. I was a bit disappointed to see him leave so early in my Portsmouth career (for Nottingham Forest) though.

‘Michael Appleton (Cotterill’s replacement) was very fresh in the game and I didn’t understand all of his moves, but it wasn’t like I didn’t like Appleton. I just believed more in what we were doing with Cotterill than Appleton at the time.

‘It’s difficult to say what was the difference but what I liked about Cotterill was that he was very direct in the way that he acted around everybody. You never had to wonder what he was thinking because he was just telling you straight. If it was bad or good, he would say — he would never hold something back.'

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