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I wonder when it'll hit them that 'saving' the club in its current guise will be much worse than starting again with a clean slate? Still, more amusement for us in the short to medium term if they are 'saved'

Silly question Trousers... @JordanHampton: Well done Dave Kitson!! He's left #Pompey and probably lost quite a bit of money to help save this club!! Nice one Dave!

Is Kitson being hero worshipped yet?

@pn_neil_allen: Dave Kitson has reached a compromise agreement to leave #Pompey. More on http://t.co/WcKZX2ZV soon.

http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/appleton-sends-out-pompey-youth-warning-1-4124222 "Michael Appleton has warned Pompey cannot afford to rely on their youngsters in League One. He said: ‘Let’s be absolutely, completely blunt. ‘If we are going into the season with kids, there is only one thing that is going to happen, end of story. ‘No-one can blame them and expect any different but let’s just get real for one second. ‘They need massive, massive help and they need time. They are not ready for this type of football at all – as in the amount of numbers we are talking about. ‘Two or three might come through to be part of an experienced team and a team that can be successful – but certainly not seven, eight or nine of them. ‘If they are lucky enough to get a few minutes here, a few minutes there, then all of a sudden a couple of them are lucky enough to get a start, then great. ‘We must all realise, though, the kids are not going to be the answer in making sure Portsmouth have a really competitive season."

Have they not put it online somewhere? I guess you got it via email? cheers

PORTSMOUTH North MP Penny Mordaunt has urged constituents to contact their local councillors and express their views on Pompey’s future. It comes as the Pompey Supporters’ Trust revealed part of its proposals to take over the club includes a loan request to Portsmouth City Council of £1.45m. Ms Mordaunt, who was at the trust’s press conference yesterday, believes the loan would pose ‘zero risk’ to the authority. She said: ‘Most people might find it weird that a local authority might do what a bank might commonly do, but local authorities loan money to organisations and other local authorities all the time. ‘I think this is a really good investment and would yield more for our city than other things the council has done in the past. We’ve got a few days, so all councillors across our city, who will be alive to that fact that this is such an important issue to the people they represent, need to concentrate on this proposal. Penny my dear...if it's such a low risk loan why don't you persuade one of the banks you part own and run to lend the money....no? I wonder why that is? Low risk my arse. If you wanna be a socialist then go and join the Labour Party FFS... ;-)

@pn_neil_allen: #Pompey City Council say they will consider £1.45m short-term loan to help Trust buy Fratton Park off Portpin. http://t.co/4mTinuOy "THE leader of Portsmouth City Council Gerald Vernon-Jackson says he will consider loaning taxpayers’ cash to help fans take over Pompey." "He added a letter has been sent to the Premier League to request repayments to the council are guaranteed on future parachute payments." Erm...aren't the players who's contracts have been dishonoured in front of you in the queue for they one...?

By the way, whatever happened to Birch's quest to "urgently" contact CVA1 creditors the other week so he could get "75%" approval from them for CVA2...?

Tucked away at the end of this BBC article earlier today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19092534

Attendances will go up ten fold as they secure back to back promotions to the premier league whereby they can waste the parachute money all over again.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19092534

Which equates to roughly twice the average weekly wage for a League One player...

Wouldn't the council be better off giving the money to the chancellor of the exchequer rather than "loaning" it to the Trust so that he can redistribute some of the £50m (or whatever it is) that the UK taxpayer as a whole has lost out on over the last few years?

And how much will the 15.2p in the pound be diluted down to in the next CVA offer in a year's time...?

Not one question about what the budget for new players would be and how that would be financed. And there was me thinking that might be an obvious question. Sharp lot these Portsmouth journos.

My interpretation was that the "£3m" (funny, nice round number that...) pledges was the overall total including the 'high net worth' contributions. So, let say the figure is actually nearer £2.75m (to allow for creative rounding up) and then take away the 'several 6 figure donations' - round figure, say, £750k - then you're left with nearer £2m or 2,000 pledges.

@solentsport: Details of PST bid for #pompeyfc emerging- they have approached Council for a loan to purchase Fratton Park

http://www.pompeytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=421:press-conference-notification-11am-020812&catid=34:demo-category The Pompey Supporters Trust will publically announce their plans to bid for PFC at a Press Conference on Thursday morning. Venue: New Place, Shirrell Heath, Hampshire, Southampton, SO32 2JY

@pompeytrust: PST is holding a press conference on Thursday August 2 (11am) to announce further details of its bid to buy Portsmouth Football Club.

@officialpompey: Michael Appleton praises #Pompey's super supporters after victory at Aldershot: http://t.co/qh4fTPzc

@solentsport: Full time: Aldershot 0 #Pompey 1