CB Fry

I'm not sure the BBC can justify putting games on involving tiny little lower league clubs that no one has ever heard of like Leeds United, Norwich City, Charlton and Southampton.

What? ML owns everything. Club. Stadium. All of it. No-one is leasing anything to anyone. And, if we are going to have the same accounting debate for the fiftieth time since the takeover*, even if there was some complicated leasing arrangement it makes no difference to us whatsoever and won't affect our ability to buy players, or if ML "gets bored" or sells us or any of that guff. All those eventualities will be decided over what ML wants to do with the club, not some structure he has or hasn't set up. If he wants to spend £100m on players next season, he can. If he doesn't it won't be because of some leasing arrangment. It will be because he doesn't want to. ML owns everything. Get over it and stop trying to pick holes.

I can't believe what I am reading here. Billboards won't deliver success long term. The only way we can possibly push on the next level is through bus stop posters.

We've had "transparency and honesty" when we were told "we are debt free". Because we are debt free. But you don't believe it. So what's the point of demanding "transparency and honesty" when you're not going to believe what people say anyway? It works both ways you know.

Christ, are people still not getting it? It was pretty bloody clear three weeks ago.

Let's establish ourselves as at least a top 6 CCC club before we embark on any of this b* llocks. Winning football matches is the only reliable marketing exercise for football clubs. All the billboards in Hampshire won't make a difference to gates if we're sixth from bottom in League One for two years in a row.

What's the argument? This is a Saints forum and we're laughing at you. There is no argument apart from "how much of a joke do you have to be to be a Portsmouth fan who thinks that there is an argument to win on a Saints fans forum?". What are you waiting for - us all to say, yeah, you're right after all and start singing the Pompey Chimes? So, how much of a joke are you? You're besotted. Get over it you weirdo.

Still posting on a Saints message board, then, divs? We're a Saints forum. We can laugh at Portsmouth if we like. It takes a premium strain of saddo to post over and over on a rival club forum. Defending their club. It's just spazztastic, especially when you look at the length of the posts and the time you must spend writing them. Posting on this one for me is a total waste of my time, so you posting on a rival forum is simply pathetic. You're besotted. Get over it you weirdos.

Were you expecting the coverage of football league highlights to be part of some musical variety revue format? Or maybe with a quiz show element fronted by that cheeky Graham Norton.

Ross McCormack is definitely good enough to fire you into the Champions League places where a club with a fan base as gigantic as yours deserves to be.

It is small beer and you seem to be splitting a hair slightly smaller than the atom. Even if ML has set up countless sub divisions of SFC we probably won't find out and it won't affect us in any meaningful way. The point is we are debt free, meaning at least that our revenue is now not going to be diverted into mortgage payments. And from everything so far said, that revenue is also not going to disappear into ML's back pocket and is very likely to be invested back into the club as a whole and players in particular. I think that should satisfy everyone, surely? I can't really see what you're driving at here.

I've got it now. Tommy. Widdrington's. red. and. white. army.

Yes it is but it is unlikely he has, or is going to, set up lots of mini entities for the sake of accounting. Whatever he does on that front doesn't alter the fact that we are debt free meaning gate reciepts and other income is now money thatnow could (not will or must) be invested into the playing staff, because the biggest drain on our revenue is now gone.

So what are you doing apart from "surmising" that there is some convoluted stadium repayment plan? The club is debt free, as ML and Cortese have said, and the stadium was by far the biggest debt. I don't think ML and co are lying. I get the feeling everyone else's "surmising" of the situation is a lot more accurate than yours.

Yes, it does. It massively reduces them.

Some people don't agree with the assessment. Well done Pompey - clear out that useless dead wood. You don't need Peter Crouch holding you back...... :rolleyes:

Err - this is what the non badge holding non look-at-me non I-know-more-than-you brigade (ie everyone except you and Tic-tacs) have been saying all along. By the way, I know more about the use of English language and punctuation than you do, ref-boy. This. form. is. fine. for. talking. down. to. trumped. up. ref. types.

We all know that Peter Crouch was utter rubbish and won't be missed at all whatsoever Peter who? we don't need him doesn't fit in etc etc etc etc.....but just a point of order that his transfer to Tottenham Hotspur has tonight been completed. Paul Hart's doing a great job of shifting out all that dead wood that we didn't need anyway and thank god he's gone he didn't fit in and not that good really bit overrated if you ask me and oh my god we're going to get relegated.

LOL indeed. Presumably Gayboy is going to wander off to his next project writing off all these debts is he? This isn't a pound coin he dropped down a drain grate. This is millions of pounds. The fact that the debt is owed to Gaydamak is more of a problem than if it was secured against the club. You boys is gonna pay.

It's not some people that do it. It's just me. I use it to explain simple things to dopey people, which is why I used it in your case. If refs like your good self are so fantastically insightful on football matters, how come none of them have ever gravitated into front line team management, and how come Poll comes across as a complete arse whenever he is wheeled out to deliver his "punditry" on the radio? It couldn't be because refs are trumped up football geekazoids focused on black and white laws and regulations but with no scope for dealing with the ambiguities of the game as a whole? Ambiguities like why one cannot (and should not) make a team full of new signings in five. working. days. at a new club. It couldn't be. Could it?

Then why are you grizzling about Pardew not making a flood of signings in his first five working days in the job? I don't kno nuffink about der transver polizy cauz I aint got no bagde or nuffin but i kno it take's mor van five days to sing lotz off players. PS - the word you are looking for is "of" not "off".

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Err - the only idiocy on this thread is coming from you sunshine. Five working days in the job and you're *****ing about us not signing a flood of players in five. working. days. Five. days. And how do you know what Pardew's priorities are? Does your UEFA B badge give you mind reading capabilities as well now? You haven't the faintest idea what Pardew is or isn't doing. So lay off calling others idiots and arrogant as your pompous half formed garbage opinions are the stupiest things posted on this forum since the takeover was announced. Let the man get on with his job without being slated by you and your Uefa B badge. And by the way what does this mean "I was in a enept enviroment with those off an insight". Maybe you need to make GCSE english a priority.

So you don't believe the moon landing happened but completely believe the most apocryphal story in the history of urban myths. Brilliant.

Like people saying Pardew is not going to get it right this season after five working days in the job, you mean?