dubai_phil

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together

Been lucky enough to have done corporate at SMS & overseas. You want to scream and shout? then as long as you are with football fans you'll be fine, but if it is a bunch of freeloaders (oops sorry corporate clients) meh

WS thanks for that.... So what you just said is that they went to Court & took the cheap option... and that nearly cost them everything :smt033

Let's do some history shall we. April 2007 Paul Allen rumoured to be buying Saints April 2009 Saints get bought by ML So, it took two years and an administration before a buyer could be found for approximately 40million pounds worth of BOOK value assets and around 35 mil of secured LONG TERM debt payable over a further 19 years. Miraculously, the skates found not one, not two BUT THREE buyers in the space of half a football season. One was already subject to a court case alleging financial impropriety, one seemed to not exist and one seems to have been conned. So, for those worriers out there they then were given 7 days to find a new buyer. The ONLY difference between the two situations were that Leon Crouch reckoned it would take 6 months. At least he had SOME idea of the problems. Birmingham City's first potential bid was received in June 2007 (all thanks to google BTW) Oh FWIW the bloke that drives the taxi to the RMC depot for the bloke that washes the cars let me in on one alleged snippet which was .. "I don't think the "not very popular" possible buyers from a state in North Africa have stopped running screaming from the first meeting yet - the rumour is that they ran so fast they were able to walk to the IOW..."

Just a word of caution peeps. Make sure before you go and book your travel that you double check that you have got everything the right way round. You wouldn't want to do this.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/arsenal/7258539/Porto-v-Arsenal-Champions-League-live.html Be careful that darned innernet thingy is Soooo difficult. At least my flights are booked for 27th April all ok

Lol 121 on the main forum 104 on here Move along please, nothing to see here. It's just another Train Wreck, plenty of pictures online from Belgium, kindly keep out of the new investors way, let them through please, don't you know those photcopiers are heavy?

Following recent revelations regarding the finance of football teams, it will be a requirement for the nickh team to produce a formal budget of their expenses for the evening showing a complete breakdown of how they intend to pay the wages of kitmen, assistant managers and assorted hangers on. Said budget should be lodged with Mr Ivor Blindi c/o the FAPL

So the job is done. The candles are burnt out at both ends and what have we learnt. PCFC didn't like the report so they asked for changes - hmm And absolutely no gung ho statements made yet

Big fan of Burn Notice these days, I think your Tippex comments may be wide of the mark. I believe the new term is Redacted.. Gert great black marker pens

This is great, just reminded me of the old Question of Sport Days with David Coleman, Bill Beaumont and Willie Carson. And so it's over to round two - What Happened next? Cuts to motorcycle courier removing a package from the back of his bike outside the Court... Billy - well obviously a dog leaped out from behind a tree and ran off with the package.. Uh no sorry Bill not quite.... Willie - I know I know - the envelope fell apart and all these fish fell out .... to be continued

Vantis probably couldn't keep up and had mistakenly put in last week's owners/Directors/Shadow Directors names:D

Why they cannot get their facts right again? Al Fahim owes 1.2 Billion, not 1.2 million

Oh like cool, wow, that's amazing. We're Serious Dudes now. Thanks Poopey fans, we can now have a whole world of new threads discussing whether we are supporters, fans, uberfans or serious dudes

Have fun. Wednesday Golf Time Interesting that there is nothing on any UAE chess web site about a delegation Will join Mero in hoping for a rabbit from a hat So the fun can continue

For the conspiracy theorists. UAE is + 4 hours on the UK The National article was timed at exactly 1 minute to 5 UK time yesterday, yet 9pm here (when NOBODY normally works), with the effect of throwing a perfectly timed hand grenade into the mess at Nottarf. Which is interesting when the Court hearing was held last Thursday, why the gap? Oh and The National has close links with The Times which is also printed in Abu Dhabi, yet no mention in there when they had all night to cut and paste the report. Good news is, it makes our money waving Sheikh at SMS even funnier

Thing is, the court case was originally filed in October 2008. AlFahim would clearly have had that investors 1.2 billion pounds for some time before hand. There are a raft of company names that Al Fahim is involved in, YET he was the CEO of a major corporate in Abu Dhabi.. So even when he took over, he had been the subject of a court case for what is a major financial irrgularity for ALMOST A YEAR Yet the PL deemed him a Fit & Proper person Meanwhile let us guess where Al Fahim's fortune all came from..... Then let us ask also how could a Kazakh amass a 1.2billion fortune that he could afford to RISK in a property development..... I swear to God this is making Watergate look like a Children's TV show

http://mypompey.com/blogs/goldenboot/archive/2010/02/16/goldenboot-exclusive-new-premiership-club-buyer-revealed-lifelong-pompey-fan-mick-shannon-rides-in-to-rescue-pompey-and-will-save-the-club-in-next-24-hours.aspx Phew that's their takeover sorted then. Storrie's big day

Karma For the past 4 years I've had 7Days delivered to my door - our local free paper very expat biased. Occassionally the "pay to read" press decide to deliver promo copies. Today for the first time in a year or more I have had a copy of The National delivered. Al Fahim IS the front page story. In other news - they have a cunning plan http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/158643/Portsmouth-s-six-point-plan/ Ha they DO have a sense of humour http://www.portsmouth.vitalfootball.co.uk/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=10156

No But BOY have they just been embarrassed even MORE

Oh no, score another big win up there for the PL's FAPP test of course. The Brit media is gonna LOVE this one tomorrow, they already have the knives out for them

Booze.... It's either too much (so you wake up for a pee at 4am) or too little Failing that the answer is actually very simple... How many hours a day do you spend sitting at a keyboard? The brain ain't getting worked and the body is becoming ESB (his own admission BTW from another thread) Take up fishing or golf or training for the forum match. Failing that, next visit to Asia they do damned good copies of medzzzzzzzzzzzz

For easy maths Aed 6 = GBP1 So Oh look at that - 60mil again...... Aed 8.2 billion will be around 1.3bil quid He has assets in the UAE of less than 500 quid He ain't coming back in a hurry - clearly the whole Skate thing was a deseperate attempt to get Brit citizenship - could have saved the few all that pain by sending him a Wiki link to Mohd Al Fayed! :D:D

Well at least we know now how he came to be classed as a Billionaire.... It was someone else's money! Oh for those wanting clarification Aed 3.653 = US$1 so the interest bill alone is $100mil plus compounded at 9% PER DAY!

Oh it will.... First lolage teh Interest bill Now what was that about assets, laundering and whatever?

:smt066 Oh yes indeedy