The Chelsea man has featured just nine times for the Blues since arriving in August
Pompey has confirmed Tino Anjorin will remain at Fratton Park for the remainder of the campaign.
The Blues are sticking by the injured ex-England youth international, who isn’t expected to be available until February.
Since his August arrival, the talented attacker has featured nine times and scored twice, yet is presently sidelined with a hamstring tear.
Nonetheless, John Mousinho isn’t exploring the possibility of ending Anjorin’s scheduled season-long loan early.
Instead, the Blues are adamant that he will stay as part of their promotion-chasing squad.
Pompey’s head coach told The News: ‘There is no change in terms of the situation with his loan.
‘The only difference between one of our players and a loan player is that Tino is recovering at Chelsea, which is why you don’t see him around.
‘That is perfectly fine; it is their right to do so, and hopefully, once he is close to returning, he will be back with us.
‘We’ve got him for the season, so we’re hoping to have him back in a couple of months and see how he is.
‘We haven’t thought about his loan contract, but it’s not a serious enough injury for us to consider terminating it. It’s just another day at the office.
‘He may possibly return in February. With an injury like this, the recovery time is obviously long, but the most important thing is getting him back and fit again. We took precautions with Tino in the first place and we’ll do that again with this injury.’
Anjorin’s previous loans at Huddersfield and Lokomotiv Moscow both ended early after injury.
Yet Pompey is earmarking him for a role during the first half of the season.
Mousinho added: ‘Tino is obviously disappointed because he was coming into some really good form and was excellent against Reading, scoring his goal.
‘He was coming into the game nicely against Chesterfield—probably one of our bright sparks in the first half—then ended up tearing his hamstring.
‘He wants to get his career going and that’s another blow for him.’
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