Ken Tone

Well the latest embarrassment of appleton actually appealling for someone to 'invest' short term to pay for yet more players till january is worthy of comment. Cringeworthy ..and how dare they call it investment when they mean 'please pay someone you've never heard of vastly inflated wages for us, for no return'.

Well I always think that those who are so blatantly anti-fenminist and make disparaging remarks about women at football, lack of parking ability, etc, are clearly closet gays, who are frightened of their own sexuality.

You're forgetting that footballers and their agents always quote their salaries a) as a weekly amount and b) after tax , to make it less obvious to us poor fools that provide the money to pay them from realising how much they 'earn'. After tax the figures Ramirez quoted are more like £30k a week, so not so much more than we pay our other top earners anyway. It will cost us c£60k a week to pay him that much ,yes, (or c£3 million a year!) but so it will also to pay AL and RL etc. Of course for Portsmouth the pre and post tax amounts are usually the same!

So how big a deal is that? This shared ownership thing is so alien to us in the UK.

Could do with a few windows couldn't it!

No more news on this today then? Not even gossip? Is the deal dead, or are man u about to sign him and his dad instead? Or what?

Any idea how Tadanari Lee is looking in terms of fitness?

Indeed. Newsthump is always worth a read.

Which is basically what we played in the Prem under Hoddle. But to answer the OP, I hope we will vary the shape according to the opposition, not just stick to any one pattern.

It really is time they got some fresh young faces into match of the day. Hansen, Lawrenson etc are like parodies of themselves now. You can predict what they are going to say before they open their mouths. As to bringing Redknapp into it. ... are the BBC trying to lower the audience figures?

Exactly. So I'm in the "get one or two top notch signings in" camp

Mine's been going to football matches for longer than I have-- she started as a little girl. As for being treated like a princess, I think mine prefers me not to sleep with old flames that look like a horse whilst my family largely ostracise me. Just choose your woman carefully mate. Been with mine for about 38 years so I had to get it right.

From The News, on why they only named 4 subs......"The Pompey boss was wary of naming any youngsters for fear they would be counted towards his quota of players." So they're at it again then!

Yes. The difference between this and say the Palace scenario, is that BC does not own the ground as such -- he merely has a charge on it. However the talk from portsmouth of using the courts to force him to accept a realistic valuation and thus not very much for his charge, completely overlooks the fact that Birch must sell to the bidder who provides the best deal for the creditors. So if Chainrai wants to play hardball, all he has to do is to himself very slightly outbid any valuation placed in Fratton Park. Eg courts say FP worth £2.5 million. BC says "I'll pay £2.76 million". Birch has to accept. BC pays Birch said £2.76 million, and Birch passes £2.75 million of it back on to Chainrai to remove his charge. Net cost to Chainrai is £10,000, for which he confirms his ownership of the ground. Then he either charges rent to the club for as long as he wants, or if the club folds, waits a bit for the 'stadium' to rot, so he can then overturn the council's planning constraint and build on the site. Either way he "will get his money back". If I were running the trust, I'd be very careful how I approached Mr Chainrai. (Btw saying anything like this on POL would get you banned!)

You know, that really is true. In my spell on POL before I was banned for the heinous crime of quoting something from it on here, it seemed to me that all the news they got was merely from re-posting stories from 'The News', in full, presumably because they found it too much effort to look at The News site for themselves. Apart from that, all that is on there is propaganda from the trust, and anyone who dares to even hint that there may be some slight problems with the trust's arithmetic is immediately accused of being one of us. They must have banned dozens of genuine portsmouth fans by now. The paranoia on there is gobsmacking, and the lack of any actual insight or research into what is going on is just as gobsmacking. PFC-related stories really do often break on here before there. Pol Pot allowed more dissent than POL !

Anybody know now this part ownership thin in Italy works? Does the smaller partner effectively just get part of a sell on fee , or what? If they part own why do they not pay part of the wage? What they expect will affect the likelihood of our getting this player.

You've just answersed your own question . They do it because he gets a reaction and gets the paper talked about on threads like this. If you just ignored him ......

I wonder if they'll have to sign his dad too?

Last few minutes City were time-wasting and we were pushing for a goal .... Fantastic!

A bit like Fox was in their goal!

To be fair although the commentators picked up on that one moment of panicky clearing, Fox has given the ball away several times, with no mention. Beginning to like Jamie Redknapp again!

Interesting that city play 4-4-2. I'd be happier if we were, with Jrod and Lambert up front, guly (or w-p) and AL wide.

I just don't see Fox as a premier league player -- sorry.

It's about time we used someone like john humphries from the Today programme for these interviews. Adkins is too good at saying absolutely nothing to the Solent blokes!

I see Warnock recently signed El Hadji-Diouf after all he said about him only a year or so ago -- and vice versa. There are no principles in football are there? Just money ,money , money http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2186959/Leeds-sign-El-Hadji-Diouf.html