Portsmouth assistant manager Tony Adams is ready to sign a new contract at Fratton Park to fulfil the club's UEFA Cup ambitions as well as his own.

The former Arsenal and England defender has just five weeks left on his current deal and was expected to look for a manager's job this summer before Pompey's FA Cup win against Cardiff last Saturday propelled them into Europe.

But Adams, 41, whose only previous post as a manager was at Wycombe whom he failed to save from relegation, is keen to assist manager Harry Redknapp plot the club's European adventure.

"Taking a team into Europe is something I haven't done and all of a sudden that becomes tempting," Adams said.

"I've done two great years down here and it's been brilliant. Now we'll talk about about the future if they (Portsmouth) want to talk about the future, but I've got no other offers whatsoever at the moment.

"And now there is the UEFA Cup to think about. I've never been a number two in that competition, and that's another dimension, I think.

"If they offered me a position as number two again for another year, another two years or another three years I would definitely consider it.

"If I want to go to Arsenal in five or 10 years' time, if I ever wanted to be manager of Manchester United, if I ever wanted to be England manager, I want to get that experience where you are taking a team to play another team in another country.

"If I want to go on to be a manager and do something somewhere else then that's the kind of experience I would like to have."

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