Ken Tone

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

Maybe not, but I've often called him a first rate prat

I wonder how our 'friends' down at bournemouth feel about all this?

Moved to Lymington at the age of 16 and lived there ever since. Joined his friend, and then rival, Iain Percy at Peter Symonds College for the sixth form. Btw Foad also attended that college, so as someone pointed out in the local Winchester paper, if Peter Symonds had been a country it would have been 45th in the medal tabel --above India! .... and Ainslie himself has now asked the PO to paint a Lyminghton post box gold.

No ..their arithmetic is still wrong, even if we ignore the fact that all footballers' wages are usually quoted net of tax to try and hide from us poor mugs who effectively pay them just how ridiculously high they are, and for some reason they've decided to calculate his before tax. The net figure of 2 million euros a year is fractionally over £30k a week, and that is how footballers' wages are normally quoted. If you do add on tax, it still can't be more than double that.

Surely 2 million euros a year is more like £30k a week? Interesting to see he says 'net' though. Bloody footballers expect clubs to pay their tax for them, and all these obscenely high wages we see quoted are after tax is deducted (or not in the case of Portsmouth).

Genuine question -- is the deadline not later because it's a sunday ko rather than a saturday ko?

Well Adkins is setting a target of 12 points from the first 4 games , so I'm quietly confident!

Thanks for both of these george -- an intreresting read, and some good humour from some of them in reply to the "stuck in rivals' ground" question.

Value in a transaction/change of hands, so it could be an agreed amount when Chainrai and CSI did a deal. Bit like the notional value of a makeweight exchange player in a transfer deal

They've just had a parachute payment -- and it is already down to £3mill, presumably becasue some of it went straight out to pay some bills. The £3 mill is already spoken for of course, but that doesn't stop the News counting it twice. Interestingly £3 million would be more than enough to pay birch if he liquidated. How much of this will he allow to be spent before he pulls the plug? His bill is £1.8million, of which he's already had £400k? Will he risk all the balance of £1.6 million? That's a lot if he doesn't pay the ex-players anything.

Who do you think you are? ... coming on here with your common sense and reasonableness!

I thought post 131 showed an interesting mix of the new and the nostalgic, with its historical reference to a previous post and yet also its challenging 'zeitgeist', up to date, questioning. It is of course unfortunate that its later stages were a marred by a typographical error, but one feels that this did not greatly undermine its overall effect. Oh and whilst I'm here, does anyone know anything more about our chances of getting Phillips?