Abu Kamara is proving a hit on loan at Portsmouth – but Pompey chief John Mousinho knows there is no chance Norwich City sell the young attacker.

The 20-year-old scored his first ever league goal in the 3-1 League One win over Peterborough prior to the international break.

Kamara has started five of the south-coast club's first nine games since sealing a season long move. City head coach David Wagner insisted on a recall clause in that deal for a young player he handed a senior Canaries’ debut towards the end of the previous campaign.

Mousinho has seen enough to predict Kamara is destined for a bright future at Carrow Road.

“We would love to sign Abu next summer but my suspicion is that, if he progresses the way he should progress, Norwich will be after him next season and he’ll be in their first-team,” he said.

“We would certainly look to the future, though. A good example would be Bali Mumba, who went to Plymouth on loan and then Norwich decided they would let him go and he joined permanently.

‘If that's a possibility with Abu then we’d look at that and see what’s coming up next year. However, we don’t know what the financials would be, we don't know if Abu would want to do it, etc, etc.

“From how much we speak to Norwich, we certainly know they were really keen on him getting this loan, learning a lot and then affecting their first-team.

“You never know, if Norwich get promoted maybe they’ll go down a different path – and, if they don’t, they may still go down a different path.

“Abu’s goal next season should be playing in the Championship. He can certainly make that a lot easier for himself by contributing to getting us promoted.”

Mousinho believes Kamara will now go from strength to strength after his landmark career strike.

“We saw a really strong performance against Forest Green and then glimpses against Stevenage, when he was really threatening and our best player in the first half,” he said, quoted by the News. “Alongside the entire team against Peterborough, there was a tricky 15-20 minutes and once he scored his confidence shot up.

“In the second half we saw him taking players on the outside, forcing a really good save from the goalkeeper, then he set up the third goal.

“That’s what we’ll see from Abu, putting those glimpses together in a full coherent performance that lasts 90 minutes.”