Doctoroncall

Just caught up on the saga, eight pages in a day... Mental! So if the Trust manages to renegotiate the players contracts (I know it's a longshot), there is nothing stopping BC from riding over the hill again to enter the race?

Bl00dy hell! I find myself in an all day meeting in Switzerland and flying back tonight. Only on now to have a break for some fun!!!

How can you be slightly unprofessional? FFS!

Sorry, must have missed that post FC. It's been a great event, well organised, the crowd have been fantastic and Team GB spectacular!

But is dependent on the owner meeting the commitment, TB will not sign the players. We have a reasonable estimate of what Portpin's budget is now and we know the Trust's budgets from its document and it doesn't look good. If some of the better players are still there then something more in keeping with the skates is going on.

A good article... http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/11/olympics-women-body-image-role-models?newsfeed=true And which athlete are you... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19050139

And then there are the paralympics to come From the 29th Aug for 12 days.

The trouble is, liquidating the club means the end of the PPs.

But he can bleed the club many other ways to get his money even if his secured amount has been reduced. All part of being the owner.

From the guardian league one preview: [h=2]Portsmouth[/h]Story of the summer The fact that we've spent all summer trying to get rid of our entire squad says it all. We've got a team of children and trialists we can't sign, plus a millionaire clinging onto his contract and risking our liquidation. We've been thrashed in pre-season friendlies by Gibraltar and Brighton, but somehow beating Aldershot and then a strong Bolton side has given us a sliver of hope. I'll still be stunned if we manage to put out a team – let alone a competitive one. What the fans want A takeover by the Portsmouth Supporters' Trust. We're not asking for promotion, we're not demanding signings, we're desperate for mere survival and some semblance of stability. What they'll actually get At worst, a takeover by Balram Chainrai and the slow death of the club. At best, immediate liquidation as Tal Ben Haim plays hardball over the remainder of his contract. One to watch It depends hugely on whether we can sign trialists like Izale McLeod or Mustapha Dumbuya. Of the current crop, Sam Magri has captained England under-17s and Portsmouth in pre-season. A centre-back who trialed with Liverpool last season, he could be key to any revival we experience, hopefully we can rebuild around him as he gets the chance to play regularly. We'll finish … the season if we're lucky. Benedict West, Portsmouth fan

So what are his options? What is the PST bid worth to him? How can he retain maximum value and obtain revenue?

Not just because it's the skates but the whole saga has had so many incidents to make an opera boring by comparison and lastly it's incredibly funny (especially Rallyboy's posts).

The scenario is he buys the club, runs the club on a tight budget, sets up a holding company for the ground and syphons off money that way. Much will depend on how much of the PPs are available to him. If he gets most of his money back in two years he can sell the club to the Trust and rent the ground with a nice annual income.

Also your company may have prefered hotels and likely to be chains. Try to restrict it to one or two and sign up to their membership programs to collect points and achieve room upgrades.

Generally hotels will have free wifi in the lobby area. Of course this may be problem when saying all the lovey-dovey stuff to the misses in a busy hotel!

Just chalk another deadline up that means jack-**** down that way. Don't forget that LL is still hiding in the ticket office.

I certainly hope we see more of the Team GB personalities than the usual suspects from Big Brother and the like!

I think the big test is to see LL leave rather than the rumoured negotiating a new contract, the standard of players coming in and whether the FL standby their commitment of financial restrictions. Also if Chainrai sets up another company to transfer the ground, then that would be a clear indication he's syphoning off the money, however, nothing has happened yet so it's still not clear what Chainrai game plan is.

Have the fans started to ask questions about the finances of the club or are the like the skates with their heads in the sand?

Cool pic!

you're showing a bit of naivety there then to believe it was a dead certain medal.

What did you say? Expectations were for 49 medals at this Olympics, one more than Beijing.

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So it'll be interesting to see if the FL are happy with this proposed £4m wage bill fresh out of admin having stated some sort of financial restrictions. From a moral point of view, £0.5m for the creditors and £2m above the league one average is quite sickening.