aintforever

Cortese was head of the sports and entertainment at a Swiss bank, maybe he's looked at the way football runs it's finances and thinks a correctly run club can make money. More likely he will have seen the way the super rich blow their millions on clubs as playthings and is priming us for a sale. Saints in the Prem along with the new training ground and probable SMS extension makes SFC a pretty decent toy.

Of course he was right to try and balance the books (screamingly obvious to anyone outside portsmouth) but you can't separate spending money badly and financial management. The club was poorly managed full stop, hence two relegations and administration. For example, if a Championship club on limited income spends 500K on a rugby coach that does the square root of **** all that is not managing finances very well.

They are investing money to make the club a Premier league one, it's not rocket science and there is no reason to think it's not a sustainable plan. It makes no business sense at all for a club with billions behind it to try and balance the books in League 1 or the Championship when the awards for being in the top league are so much greater.

Galloway is a bit of a ***t but I'm glad he's got elected because he is one of the few who were right about the Iraq War from the off.

She was clearly a Tory, following the advice of one of her heros.

Obviously a very stupid person. We are all aware that there are stupid people around, which is why it's not a good idea for MPs to suggest that people store petrol in containers around our property. Stupid Tory c*nt.

Happy Birthday Markus, you were a gift from heaven, taken back too soon.

Andrew Strode-Gibbons - those were the days!

You have to wonder what the f*ck the Tories were thinking by starting this panic. People like taxi drivers, white van men etc must be losing out big time because dumb housewives up and down the country are filling up with petrol they don't need.

As the skates are all in the bubble I expect everywhere will be open as usual.

Everything in that article is great news. There is no point analysing the figures because they are old and don't include player trading. It makes perfect sense to run at a loss for a few years to get back to the Prem. If they were trying to balance the books THEN I would worry.

I don't get how exactly rumours like this destabilises anyone at SFC. The only people effected are a few unstable characters on here, won't make a blind bit of difference to the manager or players.

I don't get why some people get in such a flap when a rumour is posted. It's perfectly feasible that the Leibherrs are open to offers.

If we have already won the league the Coventry result is meaningless. Surely SFC would have more to gain through blooding a few youth players than getting 3 points?

I would only want to lose if the game meant nothing. If we had already won the league it's a no brainer. If we clinch the title at Middlesboro and a Coventry win would send pompey down I would expect the whole SFC squad to be out on a week long ****-up.

The cheating ****s will get away with it.

But if they help them get promoted they are not pointless.

They would get them at bargain basement prices so committing to buy wouldn't be any sort of gamble.

Classic mind games, there is a lot of points to be won or lost yet and he knows it.

It's completely up to the owners how much they pay Cortese, and any of the other staff. I don't see why anyone can have issues with it. Wether he is worth £1m+ I dunno. Adkins definitely is.

They've been there ages.

Pretty sure they will go through Bitterne, up Northam rd and the sterile area will be all Britannia Rd and part of Belvidere from the roundabout leading away from the ground.

Que the same old ass-holes throwing labels around.

I never leave before the final whistle but I can understand why some people would rather get home in good time for the sake of missing Saints run down the clock in a game already as good as won.

Because they want to?