Birch just on Talk Sport- This could be the one, the club that finealy goes bang mid season. Because of timescales involved buyer needs to come forward in a couple of weeks. Money will run out mid april. Operating costs are the issue, not previous owners demands. Contracts that need to be honoured next season will cipple the club and make a buyer less likely. Nobody is beating his door down.
Precisely, even £2 Million wasn't worth accepting- besides, JWM, Ipswich's best offer was £1.6 Million
You Skates dont seem to get it do you. Birch said that operating costs were the main issue. The highest operating costs are wages, not only would you get £1.6mil but you get the wages off the books. It's like Groundhog day with you lot, we heard all this nonsense last time, no point in selleng players blah blah blah............
We've got more of the wage book in letting the Viking go than selling those three. Plus Herman going reduced the wage bill more. Not selling those 3 players has clearly forced Chanrai's hand. It was either sell and go into admin later with him running the show or not sell, go into admin now and have someone else. This was clear when AA said he was outraged at Lampit "turning of his phone" on deadline day. AA wasn't working in the best interests of the club, he was working for Chanrai which again is obvious when Chanrai offered £500000 to have AA installed as admin again. Bribery. Even if we had taken that 1.6mil, we would still be in this position. We could have either payed the outstanding tax bill till the end of Feb or payed the players wages. Not enough money to have both. And if the parachute payments were for Sasha anyway, then unless we had sold all of our high earners making about 10mil then we would have been fooked regardless. No win situation.
So lets get this right. A club that have only got money until April, have been in admin twice in 2 years, are in danger of not fulfilling fixtures, and your CEO turns his phone off on deadline day. No wonder AA was outraged, I'm quite surprised more of you lot aren't outraged.When you're all sat at home in April with no football to watch, what will you think of Lumpitt then?
If AA offered Gayadamak our parachute money for him to accept the CVA (the same parachute money that was ringfenced to pay said CVA) just how exactly was he planning on us paying it?
As a recent 'import' into the area due to work, I just wanted to wish you guys the very best of luck - you deserve it. Looking forward to seeing the Addicks play you at Fratton next season - lets hope so.
Christ LD, what has made you so bitter lately. You seem to have taken Red and White Comrades posts, given them a spin and voila. If anyone is doing the Pennsylvania Polka, Da Capo infinitum, it's you, not us. Why don't you give it a rest for a while and go and enjoy your clubs success like the rest of your brethren are. And good luck to them too. At least they know how to enjoy themselves. I'm not trying to be nasty, but you are becoming a pain in the neck and a boring one at that.
I never thought I would say this but, like it or not, LD has a point. Even now some of us on here would fiddle while Rome burns. We as fans do have to take some of the blame this time round. We might not have been running the ship but we kept demanding more speed and champagne even though we knew there were icebergs about.
Refreshing honesty. 99% of Pompey fans claim it wasn't anything to do with them, yet when Tony Adams was failing you were all screaming for him to be sacked and replaced with a big name. You kept wanting the cash to be splashed, now you just have a lot of egg on your face.
I think that it has to be remembered that a half a billion pounds, yes a half a billion pounds has gone through the club in the last few years. Also bear in mind that the club made significant profits on the transfers of players overall. When all the dust has settled and Inspector Knacker of the Yard has finished, I would be amazed if we don't find that criminal activity is a large part of Pompey's demise. And anyway, show me a group of fans of any club, who's considered reaction upon hearing the news a of a great player being signed is, "wow, I wonder if my accountant thinks that's a sensible move for my club"
Having posted the above, I ought to add that the contrast between Saints reaction to cash shortfall and Pompey's was stark. Our best players wanted to go because clauses in their contracts halved most of their wages the moment we were relegated to the Championship. The obvious lack of these clauses has left some of your players unable to accept moves, but there is no doubt that if action had been taken on costs sooner, we might not be where we are now.
I partially agree with this. But my suspicion is that a number of individuals (especially Gaydamak) have used Pompey to launder their money, and didn't especially care about the club's long term future. So to cover the shady dealings, big name players were brought in and all of Pompey's money walked out of the front door in the pockets of players like Campbell, Defoe, Crouch, Johnson et al. I don't think, as seems to be believed by a number of Pompey fans, that there was a massive fraud where the owners extracted a lot of money. The players took most of it. But the actions of AA & Chainrai certainly look like the actions of people with something to hide.
I'm drawing on other things he has written elsewhere too, by the way. I'm just getting hacked off with the amount of people who are directly attacking us as supporters as though it's somehow all down to us. I'm all for reasoned debate, but coming out with comments like this (written just after another ridiculous/similar comment by Red and white comrade) "****ing hell, even some Saints fans are buying into this "Pompey victimhood". You find me more than a dozen of the 13,000 Blue Few who are decent and I'll run naked from SMS to Fratton Park. The supporters I feel sorry for are the Blackpool's, Barnsley's, Burnleys, Millwalls of the world, clubs that have done things the right way. Blackpool didn't use taxpayers and charities money to stay in the top flight, they ran a proper budget and unfortunatly ended up relegated.They are the supporters I feel sorry for. As for all this nonsense about "the supporters". They were the ones singing "one Peter Storrie", they were the ones booing during Ted's silance, and they are the ones who still complain about transfer bans ect, and how it's unfair that they cant fill their bench. Other sides have taken their punishment and got on with it, not the Skates, yet again they are the victims. Anyone can make a mistake, but only a fool keeps making the same mistake over and over again. What's that, 3 admin's in the modern game? Perhaps if the City really backed the club, instaed of being plastic supporters, contrast the "pack the park" gate with the cup parade, but they cant even fill their poxy "ground". Yet we're supposed to buy into this one club nonsense. Solant were at it again, waffling on about the protest afterwards. When I saw the pictures, it was laughable. About 100 bellringers milling around in an empty stand. Even their most famous fan and head bell ringer cant be bothered to get to the games in time for kick off. Sums it up really." The second part of this is an example of what I'm on about. The LD I knew from BBC606 would never have written this. I know lots of decent Pompey fans and lots of decent Saints fans too. A group I would have put LD in, without question in days gone by. Nowadays, I would have to think about it to say the least. Also as Duckhunter knows full well, but fails to mention, that in 4 years a lot of Pompey people have become very poor in comparison. My days out are limited now. The recession has hit this city hard. Perhaps that will be the next thing we get the blame for, the world wide slump!
