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[TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:27 [/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext viewer_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Comment From Zorba Are PKF owed all of their fees (est 2 mill) or have they been paid some already? If so, how much is still owed?[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:29 [/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Colin: That is probably a question for PKF. I don't have any information on the sums involved, but this is directly a matter for the creditors, not PST.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Do what? How on earth can the Trust come up with a meaningful business plan if they don't have a scooby how much PKF will sting the available funds for? Sorry but that's just unbelievable...

Bugger....been so distracted by the Pochettino new manager malarkey that forgot there was a webchat today. What was that you were saying about Pompey becoming irrelevant RallyBoy?

Yep, agree with that. I guess the publicity issue doesn't arise in my dull IT world analogy. In this scenario it would be perfectly normal for me to be called into the Programme Manager's office on the same morning that the new project manager arrived on the scene and be told I was no longer on the job. I guess that's the bit Cortese perhaps doesn't appreciate - that he's conducting "normal" business practises in the full glare of the world's media.

Pretty much I reckon.

Yes, I've understood it from the beginning, hence last Friday's events not surprising me in the slightest. One thing that struck me in Pochettino's first interviews after joining was the regular reference to "the project"....which is a good way of looking at it. I work in the IT world and you generally work to c.5 year programmes and each programme will be comprised of several projects. It's common practice for project managers to specialise in different phases of a given programme. Nigel Adkins got assigned the "Get us to the premier league" project, or 'phase' of the programme. Pochettino is now managing the next phase....call it the "Take us into Europe" phase, or "project", if you will. When people and the media look at Adkins being "sacked" and question the madness of the timing of it, what they are not doing is seeing the bigger picture IMO. It's quite clear to me that Cortese would have planned for the next "project manager" to have taken over from the previous project manager in the summer, as that was the natural delimiter between the two phases. But, what if the best project manager wasn't available to take over at that time? What do you do? What would we do in the IT world equivalent? We'd do exactly what Cortese did....in the interests of continuity you would get the previous phase project manager to assume temporary control of the early stages of the next phase until your man became available. I'm pretty sure Nigel knew WHAT was going to happen - quite possibly from the day he joined - I'm pretty sure he would have been expecting to go in the summer when 'his' project was successfully delivered. We'll never know for sure if Cortese handled the eventual "exit day" with any sensitivity towards Adkins or not, but maybe that's the wrong way of looking at it. If this was an IT work stream / programme and I was in the Adkins roll of 'phase 1 project manager' I would know that there would come a day where, all of a sudden, the next project manager would become available and I would move on to something else. So, what might seem like a callous hatchet job to the outside world might actually just be a perception issue. Anyway, rambling on a bit there, but the bottom line is that I 100% get Cortese's "Project" concept....perhaps its the football world that needs to catch up with successful business methodologies being used in an "old fashioned industry" such as football. Ok, shoot me down....

http://www.gazzetta.it/Calciomercato/23-01-2013/inter-paulinho-prezzo-aumenta-coutinho-southampton-rilancia-913953049876.shtml

http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/southampton-have-offered-more-than-liverpool-for-coutinho-and-int

David Anderson ‏@MirrorAnderson Southampton are trying to nick Coutinho from under Liverpool's noses. They will pay £10m. Liverpool £8m. David Anderson ‏@MirrorAnderson No word yet on which club Coutinho would prefer. Does he really want to join a relegation fight at Saints or does the money mean more?

@officialsaints: Great hospitality from @FCBarcelona in welcoming us this morning. Hopefully we'll be back in the future! #saintsfc

Totally agree - the right to vote should be predicated by an IQ test

One night only or here all week?

What? No undersoil heating? Something else we've got in common with Barcelona then.....

Are you my wife?

@officialsaints: Up the tunnel and onto the pitch... #saintsfc http://t.co/iECHvmyQ

@officialsaints: The players listen intently as they're shown around the inner workings of the Camp Nou. #saintsfc http://t.co/FoHqlIYp I've been in that room!

Own up....how did you know...?

@officialsaints: This morning we are visiting the Camp Nou, home of @FCB! #saintsfc http://t.co/DCy7gjnl

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/24/mcdonalds-create-2500-uk-jobs

Interesting use of the future tense there me ol' mucker....

If the general public don't like it they can tell Cameron where to stick his "electioneering" in May 2015...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21082110

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21158815

Extract: Cheers. I'm getting moister by the minute

And you can add Pompey to that list....