Matthew Le God

Which is more likely, Championship offers from those at the top or bottom? Last season he was on loan at relegation scrapping Barnsley, this summer Notts County are offering him a deal. Saints could do much better, Harewood is very much on the decline. Bids for players like Jack Cork show Saints' ambitions for the season.

That is in reference to this story... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1393018/Amy-Childs-leaves-club-Marbella-footballer-Jack-Cork.html Not the transfer rumours.

He is getting contract offers from bottom half League One clubs like Notts County for a reason. What makes you think he would be good enough for a Championship promotion campaign?

Of course it is, since the thread started you have had five "owners". A new owner doesn't mean the saga or this thread is over by any means. No point closing the thread, especially as football clubs owned by those with connections with the mafia will only end in tears. You have to question why a legitimate businessman would choose Pompey ahead of a number of other clubs in England that offer a better business decision (infrastructure and fanbase etc) for a similar or better price than it would cost to make Pompey a Premier League regular again. Any businessman that does so is either dodgy (possibly money laundering) or inept in business and can't see better opportunities even when they are available.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Arsenal-transfer-news-Nicklas-Bendtner-set-for-12m-move-with-Bayern-Munich-expected-to-bid-Denilson-8m-Sevilla-target-article743321.html

Well he is in the 23 man squad for the under 21 European Championships a week later, so you would think so.

Yes, I am certain based on the exact wording of the transfer window rules. It says "midnight", so at midnight and not a second afterwards. Though obviously no-one would be available to process transfers at the FA's offices until the morning after, so it doesn't really matter.

Nope, you are both wrong, it is the 2nd day. The transfer window opened at midnight on Monday/Tuesday.

What makes you think this takeover will go well? None of the others have, and these guys look far from what I would want running my club given their murky backgrounds and links to the Russian mafia. This is just another disaster waiting to happen.

I didn't mean beat directly, more that he was deemed good enough to make the 23 man squad and Lallana wasn't. I'm not even saying Cork is better than Lallana or vice versa, just using it to answer the question of how good Cork is, being in the squad for England gives an indication of his quality.

Well he beat Adam Lallana to get in the England under 21 side for the European Championships this summer and was a regular starter at a good Championship team this season.

Why do you think that? The longer it takes, the harder it will get. - Next season will see 3 clubs with £32m worth of parachute payments left (maybe less with Pompey) and 3 clubs with £48m worth of parachute payments left. The season after another 3 clubs with £48m of parachute payments will join the league and so on. Yes, some of them may go straight up, but the recent increase in these payments and extension over 4 years instead of 2 means it will get harder and harder as the years go on for clubs without the payments to compete with those that do. - If Saints get again promoted next season there is a reasonable chance players like Chamberlain could stay to play for the team in the Premier League. If Saints don't get promoted quickly the squad may be broken up and the club having to rebuild. Saints will want to use the momentum they have to get up as quick as possible and that means a push for promotion in 2011/12. Cortese doesn't strike me as a man to be consolidating in the Championship when he doesn't need to.

How many League One, Championship or Premier League teams have training facilities as good as those being built at Staplewood? It is on a par with those in the top six of the top flight. That is being done without Premier League or Championship TV money. It is clear evidence of huge ambition being backed up with real money. They aren't building it as good as they are in order to hang around in the Championship or even the lower reacher of the Premier League for years to come. If they wanted to do that, they would have used a smaller scale development of Staplewood.

You mean newly promoted Saints joint 4th favourite to win the 2011/12 Championship with Skybet?

As a few people have asked when the transfer window opens... Page 150... http://www.premierleague.com/staticFiles/7a/20/0,,12306~139386,00.pdf So in three hours time!

Take what with a bit of salt? This isn't actually news, or an accurate list. They are all definitely Saints players. It actually isn't a full list, Saints actually have around 60 currently contracted players on professional deals (bar a few). Plus they had 125 players registered at the academy at the start of 2010/11.

Because that is Willi and Isolade Liebherr's company. Markus didn't have anything to do with the family company (started by his dad Hans Liebherr in 1948 ) since the early 1990's when he sold his shares and set up the Mali Group of companies. People confuse his "family" as being his brother and sister's company, when it is actually his wife/children that is being referred to when discussed as his family. This is a more up to date video showing what Willi and Isolade's company does... [video=youtube;fWGENe-GuSk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWGENe-GuSk It is a huge company and spans a wide variety of industries, as the video shows.

He played for the Saints youth side for a year and also 11 games for the 1st team in 8 years at the club.

They aren't anywhere near being a south coast team! Reading is roughly 60 miles (by road) north of Portsmouth.

Pompey Trust on twitter 50 minutes ago... "The Trust understands that an announcement from PFC in 48 hours will say the CSI takeover is completed. We await details. Several sources have broken cover and Portsmouth News are running a story tomorrow."

What makes you think Saints won't sign players without selling first? Adkins and the new scout have both indicated the club is spending this summer. If Saints are going to spend money regardless, why sell a first team regular? If you sell Chamberlain, who are you going to get that is better than him? Chamberlain decided to sign a 3 year deal last year, you don't need to set him a deadline, he agreed to stay contracted in a 3 year deal.

It isn't really new "news", director of football Barry Fry, owner Darragh MacAnthony and manager Darren Ferguson have made it clear for months that Boyd, Lewis and Mackail-Smith were leaving regardless of Peterborough going up or not.

No, his contract at Peterborough ends on 30th June 2012.

They are both 23 years old.

They signed a quick striker yesterday and bid for another striker, looks like they made other plans.