Ken Tone

Which of course is fair enough. It is also credible that I might win the lottery this week, but I doubt a bank would lend me money on that basis!

Press reelase from birch's lot 23 August 2012: Trevor Birch, PKF partner and joint administrator of Portsmouth Football Club (2010) Ltd, said: “Portpin has submitted a new offer and we are now reviewing it. “We have been working with the Trust since Portpin's original offer was withdrawn and understand that the Trust is on track to submit a business plan and revised offer tomorrow. “We will assess its bid once it has been submitted and will then determine which offer provides the best deal for creditors, as is our duty as court appointed administrators

How did people, some of whom seemed of at least average intelligence like Farmery, ever believe the trust had a viable bid?

Ditto. Still frattoniser is still on there . Maybe he can report !

Or maybe he backed off so a few more would buy season tickets thinking he was out of the picture , then come back in a squeeze what he can out of them?

Fair?! This is portsmouth.

But then of course so were many others ,known about' that we did not eventually sign. Many reporters work on the same principle as a bad clairvoyant at a seance. Guess anything till something turns out right. Then ignore the wrong ones. Does anyone know someone called John ?.... Jane ?..with black hair?...with 2 legs?... Oh yes, I'm right again. Uncanny isn't it?

And Appleton supposedly says he can get this for £60 k COST it to include tax etc, which means he'd only have about 50-60% of that to pay in net wages, as footballers describe ther salaries,. So by football standards he is claiming thathe can rip up L1 with 3 extra players taking home c£600 a week each, ie about £ 30 k a year. Yeah, right ! He really has lost it now hasn't he? And they had the nerve on Solent to describe this gift he is soliciting for, as an investment

Snap!

One of the reports linked on here said that bologna wanted €10mill immediately ,then the other €5 million within a year! That is playing hardball compared with normal football transfer procedures. Obviously ,as with all negotiations , it depends who wants/needs it more -- the buyer or the seller. Who will blink first?

The big question is, have we offered Ramirez's father 600k?

Look. We can't have it both ways ..point the finger at Portsmouth ,then spend money haven't got ourselves. None of us know the details of just how much we have available ,or whether Bologna have moved the goalposts mid negotiations , etc, , but I do know I'd rather risk relegation than going bust. So there has to be some point at which we say "no, too much". I'm as disappointed as anyone else if this really has fallen through, but I'll live.

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!