Matthew Le God

That bid was made before the Cala takeover collapsed today. Things may be different now perhaps?

We are still waiting!

Why would they bid when they could just wait until Pompey disappear and all their players are released and can be signed for nothing?

That argument Pompey have been using doesn't stack up, Southampton Leisure Holdings did have non football related companies. CSI's main non football related company has lost the rights to the World Rally Championship. With that gone North One is worthless, yet CSI still remains in admin. What is keeping it there if Pompey are solvent?

I seem to recall the last time Pompey went into admin in 2010, Southampton chairman Nicola Cortese said he would take issue if they didn't get a points deduction when Southampton did. What about this time? i) 2nd April 2009 Southampton FC's parent company Southampton Leisure Holdings enters administration. Mark Fry, Southampton Leisure Holdings Administrator "I'm not administrator of the football club, I'm administrator of the holding company". "Distinct separate legal entities". Sound familiar? Similar to what the CSI administrator's have been saying. Accountancy firm sent into the club. 21 days later... Football League announce 10 points deducted ii) 29th November 2011 Portsmouth FC's parent company CSI enter administration. Accountancy firm sent into the club. 52 days later... Nothing! (yet) ................................................. Exhibit A "Akers told the Guardian that Antonov has invested around £10.5m into Portsmouth to pay for transfer fees and underwrite players' wages since CSI bought the club." http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/nov/29/portsmouth-parent-company-administration So the club was given £10.5m which it then spent on improving the squad in the summer of 2011 buying Varney, Huseklupp, Norris, Pearce etc. CEO David Lampitt even boasted on the Pompey website that they had been the Championship's "second highest net spenders in the summer". The administrator now admits the club doesn't have funding for the rest of the season. It was clearly dependant on more external money being put into it in order to pay wages and debts for the rest of the season. "Inextricably linked"? Exhibit B 30th November 2011- CSI Administrator Andrew Andronikou - "I can't see how the club can be deducted points." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15963854.stm Exhibit C 17th December 2011 -CSI Administrator Andrew Andronikou - "Hopefully, next week we will have sold one of the companies owned by CSI to allow us to invest some capital into the club." http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Portsmouth-face-administration-and-points-deduction-again-article844184.html Why does the club need money from another of CSI's businesses? Does that not make CSI and Portsmouth FC "inextricably linked"? Exhibit D 19th January 2012 - Joseph Cala former prospective owner who would have seen the books - “Portsmouth have eight players who earn £1.1 million a month between them. That is in a league with an average budget of £8 million a year,” he said. “Without these eight players the club is healthy, in fact it would be profitable." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/portsmouth/9021385/Joseph-Cala-the-Man-from-Atlantis-confident-of-Portsmouth-deal.html If what he says is true, then the club isn't healthy and isn't profitable and is reliant on external cash to keep going. Exhibit E Those connected at Portsmouth have attempted to make out the situations are different. Both Southampton Leisure holdings and CSI had other none football related businesses. The other main CSI company was North One which has now lost the World Rally rights.... http://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/North-One-Sport-loses-WRC-commercial-rights,35337.html Why are no journalists questioning this? If not national ones, then at least the Daily Echo or BBC Radio Solent should dig into it.

I seem to recall the last time Pompey went into admin in 2010, Southampton chairman Nicola Cortese said he would take issue if they didn't get a points deduction when Southampton did. What about this time? i) 2nd April 2009 Southampton FC's parent company Southampton Leisure Holdings enters administration. Mark Fry, Southampton Leisure Holdings Administrator "I'm not administrator of the football club, I'm administrator of the holding company". "Distinct separate legal entities". Sound familiar? Similar to what the CSI administrator's have been saying. Accountancy firm sent into the club. 21 days later... Football League announce 10 points deducted ii) 29th November 2011 Portsmouth FC's parent company CSI enter administration. Accountancy firm sent into the club. 52 days later... Nothing! (yet) ................................................. Exhibit A "Akers told the Guardian that Antonov has invested around £10.5m into Portsmouth to pay for transfer fees and underwrite players' wages since CSI bought the club." http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/nov/29/portsmouth-parent-company-administration So the club was given £10.5m which it then spent on improving the squad in the summer of 2011 buying Varney, Huseklupp, Norris, Pearce etc. CEO David Lampitt even boasted on the Pompey website that they had been the Championship's "second highest net spenders in the summer". The administrator now admits the club doesn't have funding for the rest of the season. It was clearly dependant on more external money being put into it in order to pay wages and debts for the rest of the season. "Inextricably linked"? Exhibit B 30th November 2011- CSI Administrator Andrew Andronikou - "I can't see how the club can be deducted points." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15963854.stm Exhibit C 17th December 2011 -CSI Administrator Andrew Andronikou - "Hopefully, next week we will have sold one of the companies owned by CSI to allow us to invest some capital into the club." http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Portsmouth-face-administration-and-points-deduction-again-article844184.html Why does the club need money from another of CSI's businesses? Does that not make CSI and Portsmouth FC "inextricably linked"? Exhibit D 19th January 2012 - Joseph Cala former prospective owner who would have seen the books - “Portsmouth have eight players who earn £1.1 million a month between them. That is in a league with an average budget of £8 million a year,” he said. “Without these eight players the club is healthy, in fact it would be profitable." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/portsmouth/9021385/Joseph-Cala-the-Man-from-Atlantis-confident-of-Portsmouth-deal.html If what he says is true, then the club isn't healthy and isn't profitable and is reliant on external cash to keep going. Exhibit E Those connected at Portsmouth have attempted to make out the situations are different. Both Southampton Leisure holdings and CSI had other none football related businesses. The other main CSI company was North One which has now lost the World Rally rights.... http://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/North-One-Sport-loses-WRC-commercial-rights,35337.html Why are no journalists questioning this? If not national ones, then at least the Daily Echo or BBC Radio Solent should dig into it.

The winners will play Chelsea or West Ham United at home in the 6th round.

He is 30 years old and spent most of his career in Italy as an attacking midfielder. Even whilst at Saints he has played a large number of games in midfield over the last 18 months. He started this season playing wide right when Connolly was upfront, he also played out wide for Saints in League One for a large number of games. I'd say his best position is as a central attacking midfielder, but he is clearly capable of doing a very good job upfront, as he has shown this season. He is very different to Hooper, who is an out and out goal poacher playing on the shoulder of the last defender.

I'm sure he has been the guest on the Football League show at least once, possibly more since he joined Saints.

- Forte won't be here much longer - Reeves isn't a striker - De Ridder isn't really a striker - Guly Do Prado you could argue isn't really a striker Which leaves... Lambert Connolly Guly Do Prado Tadanari Lee - when he arrives Barnard - Injury and other issues

I went to the 3rd round game at St Mary's vs Sheff Utd which saw Saints run out 7-0 winners against last season's finalists. I recommend going to the 5th round vs Nottingham Forest at St Mary's next Wednesday to see the future of the club, in what should be a good and cheap evening's entertainment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0NjRHWfB2A&feature=youtu.be Would be good to see a "big" crowd for this... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2582993,00.html Parking is free tonight at St Mary's.

Well that is a foolish thing to do!

On what do you base that?

Arsenal for Lambert! http://premierliga.net/arsenali-interesohet-per-rickie-lambert/

Beckford has scored 2 Championship goals this season compared to Lambert's 15.

Big difference between Hooper moving from one league to another, and Lambert being sold to promotion rivals having recently signed a long term deal at a financially secure club.

Time for a mod to close this nonsense.

I hope Cestrian Saint applies for any vacancies that crop up in the talent ID department at St Mary's.

Portsmouth F.C.'s new signing Kelvin Etuhu in "action"...

Impossible to police and easy to do either indirectly or directly especially if you know each other like Hooper and Adkins/Crosby do. I don't think Saints would continue their interest for this long if Adkins didn't think Hooper would be interested, I think he knows he would be. Main obstacle to this transfer happening is agreeing a fee with Celtic, not getting Hooper to want to leave.

Oppress and colonise the Scots for hundreds of years?

Jos and Celtic's Joe Ledley tweeted about it. Would seem it happened... https://twitter.com/#!/joe16led/status/159598144890474496

It is hard to believe the topic didn't come up in conversation over dinner.

I refer you to this well made point... Uprooting from Japan to the UK is a little different from putting you things in a removal van and moving from London to Southampton. I'd imagine he has a huge amount of things to sort out on top of just getting the paperwork done.

He is 6 foot 1 and only slightly shorter than Lambert (6 foot 2). Are you sure you have been watching Jordan Rhodes? http://www.htafc.com/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10312~39589,00.html