Matthew Le God

Correct.

I don't think THEVMAN works for Saints, doesn't he just know Lallana?

His loan ended and he went back to Spurs. Paulo Gazzaniga is a Spanish speaking, South American and only a year younger.

Biggest signing the club has made in 32 years since signing reigning European Footballer of the year Kevin Keegan and he still can't be happy!

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A little less crazy as it is about £15.7m.

Sets it up perfectly for HMRC's revenge after being screwed for £40+ million by the business.

They messed up season ticket payments big time this summer.

Correct, but given he is now playing for Scotland he isn't going to be getting any England caps. Jarvis probably won't either.

And Phillips has 5 years to match or better those relatively small achievements.

Merely treading water until the huge flaws in the Trust's bid are fully exposed. Things like... 1) £30k for maintenance of Fratton Park for a year - a ludicrously low figure. 2) Budgeted for a 10,000 average for 1st rounds of League Cup, JPT and FA Cup. With the League Cup attendance of 5,318, Pompey need to get 24,682 in total for the 1st round of the JPT and 1st round of the FA Cup to meet business plan. 3) Council loan dependant on being secured against parachute payments that have been taken up for compromise agreements. 4) Extremely ambitious average attendance forecasts over the next 3 years 5) An inability to confirm if the academy is closing or not. Bid document and council document confirmed it has been budgeted for after 2014 and will close. Yet trust officials in the media say they intend to continue with it. Right hand doesn't know what the left is doing! 6) Council say you need a 90% conversion rate of pledges, trust say 75%. Which is right? I can't see either happening tbh. etc etc Anyone want to add some more?

Matt Phillips is 5 years younger than Matt Jarvis so has that on his side.

A debt of £10,000 in 2010 was going to see £2,000 paid back over a number of years. That is now going to see a return of a mere £40. I doubt any of the 2010 creditors would be willing to do the club any favours, nor should such a tiny return be seen as really still meeting the original debt. Certainly not enough to warrant a reduction in punishment from -19 points (-4 added for two previous admins ontop of the -15), to -10 points. It is a clear case of inconsistent punishments from the Football League.

It is about the going rate for a highly rated young British player. Also consider Wycombe Wanderers will receive a large % which will drive up the price, as will Blackpool's relatively strong financial position.

If you ignore that the club never legally went into admin (only SLH plc did, compared to both CSI and Pompey FC currently both in admin), Saints didn't require a CVA, did fail to make payments on that CVA and didn't plan to dilute a failed CVA with a new CVA. All thing Pompey have or intend to do. Hence the further deduction they will get this season when they exit administration. They are lucky it is only -10, as I said earlier Bournemouth and ROtherham had -17 for failing to agree a CVA in the first place, what Pompey are doing is similar if not worse.

The Football League confirmed that they will get -10 when they exit admin (we knew this before today anyway so not news) as they will be doing so having diluted a failed 2010 CVA with a new 2012 CVA. Until it is seen how they exit admin they can't be hit with a points deduction as in theory they could pay off all their debts still (never going to happen but can't rule it out). What is strange is why Pompey only get -10 points for diluting a failed CVA, yet Rotherham and Bournemouth got -17 points for failing to agree a CVA. They amount to the same thing, yet are punished differently. The Football League refuse to explain the difference in punishment.

The old parachute payments were £32m over 2 years, it is now £48m over 4 years. Pompey were one of the three teams to first get parachute payments over 4 years when they were relegated in 2009/10, Blackpool were relegated in 2010/11.

Not just two, there are others. For example Ipswich, first season up came 5th, Newcastle came 12th, Wigan 10th etc etc. So what if it is "not the norm"? It shows it is possible. Can you answer post #131 please?

Norwich and Swansea showed the gap between the top of the Championship and the bottom 11 or 12 teams in the Premier League is negligible if you make shrewd signings from the Championship and League One.

1) So last summer we should have sold Rickie Lambert and signed a mid-table Championship striker? 2) Any comment on post #126? 3) Which mid-table Premier League players do you think it would be realistic for Saints to buy, that are better than the sigingings we've made and/or the current squad?

Schneiderlin, Lallana and Davis all relegated to League One. How did they do last season in the Championship? Lambert hadn't played a game above League One and ended up scoring 27 Championship goals and voted Championship player of the season. Base a player on his own merits, not that of the fortunes of the squad they were in.

Because it is relevant to my final sentence, Phillips isn't just a Championship player, he has good experience already as to what he can do in the Premier League.

Phillips has already had a season in the Premier League, playing 27 games. Ince has yet to do so, although it is likely he will also end up in the Premier League at some point.

Did they sign the best in the Championship? Clyne, Phillips and Rodriguez were all considered the best in their positions in the PFA vote for Championship team of the year. Plus, you seem to have forgotten/were unaware that Matt Phillips has already played 27 Premier League games in 2010/11.

Norwich signed a lot of the best Championship and League One players, they ended up mid table in the Premier League last season. Just because they are signed from the league below doesn't mean they aren't already good enough. Lambert hadn't played above League One before 2011/12 and ended up the Championship's top scorer and voted the best player in the league.