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2 weeks from administration. LOL

I know you're a well meaning old duffer Nick Nack but some of the stuff you're posting here is so embarrassingly off beam I almost feel sorry for you. Why don't you just stick to going to games with your flak of tea and rattle and cheer on the "young lads coming through" rather than showing yourself up on here as some kind of Mr Chips of the football mesage board world.

Christ, Nick Nack calling Pompey fans gimps. Still, I suppose he should know a he spends most weekends chained up in a dungeon wearing a leather mask and a butt plug shoved up his back passage. Look Mavis, the reason nothing is happening on a new ground for Pompey is because Gaydamak's selling up. He's not going to invest any cash in it so nothing will happen until new owners come along. Not a difficult concept to grasp, is it, even for a one dimensional dullard like you. I have no idea if the Port Solent plan will/ would have gone ahead. I do know that the money from a couple of supermarket chains had been discussed in some detail and was agreed in principle but the real stumbling block as far as I could see was the transport infrastructure to and from the new ground. However, I understand that if the 2018 world cup bid is won by the FA then they would be willing to contribute a significant sum towards construction. However, until a new owner comes in clearly nothing will happen.

As PES has already said, Gaydamak has just turned down a bid from a Swiss group so despite what most on here have told me there clearly is interest in buying PFC. Not only that, but the fact that Gaydamak turned down the bid would suggest that he's either not desperate to sell or that there are other interested parties. In fact the rumours are that a group (maybe middle eastern but certainly backed with middle eastern money - as reported in the Times) is very interested but won't bid until our Prem League status is secured. There's also a rumour about a Greek guy bidding. And no, I am in sales but definitely not photocopiers. Actually, that's not the reality. The reality is that the increase in money from TV is now far more important than gate money for clubs like Pompey (and Saints if you were still in the Prem). A new stadium with a capacity of 30,000 (similar sized crowd to what you got in the top division before your super fans deserted en mass) would generate around an additional £5.5m pa. A decent amount but when you consider that we now get around £30m a year from SKY it's not critical, wouldn't you say?

I thought you were starting your own business Stuey? I'm sure you old me you planned to become the next Bill Gates by launching a website this year (dating site for gay servicemen - Brothersinarms.com or something wasn't it?). What happened to that idea? As for agencies, depends what level you're at and what kind of sales. Try BMS (we used them recently to recruit someone for my sales team), Michael Page, Nigel Wright, Pursuit NHA, or CD

Mullins isn't the most exciting signing but he'll do a job for us until we can spend a bit more money in the summer. Decent squad player and most West Ham fans seem to think he's a decent player. We were never going to sign anyone as good as Diarra anyway but, assuming we stay up, we'll buy a couple of decent players in Jan who'll improve the squad. Anyway, if The Mail are correct (and they've been on the ball with most Pompey stories lately) Saviola has agreed to join us on loan for the rest of the season. Should fit in nicely behind Crouch in a 4 5 1 formation. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1128223/Real-Madrid-star-Javier-Saviola-join-Portsmouth-loan.html?ITO=1490

Well, Gary O'Neil is doing well at Boro and Marc Wilson has looked pretty good in the games he's played for the first team this season. Our academy recently beat Chelsea's 4 - 0 so we're obviously improving.

Thought Dyer looked distictly average TBH. Took the goal well but only got the chance because Cranie let him run free. Was just about the only thing Dyer did all afternoon. Cranie on the other hand was shocking. No pace, no positional sense and didn't see him pass to a blue shirt all afternoon. If he's an example of your youth academy no wonder you're struggling having to play so many of them at the moment

Which was in response to posts from caring, sharing Saints fans constantly gloating about the prospect of Gaydamak walking out, a "fire sale" of all our players, Pompey going bust etc etc. Apparently it's funny when it might happen to Pompey but not Saints. Even considering this is a Saints board that smacks of incredible double standards on your part not to realise it. So, are all the Saints fans who post anything like that about Pompey morons and hypocrites now they don't want Saints to go into administration?

FWIW I think anyone who's read this forum (or it's predecessor) would vouch for me when I say that whenever the subject of you possibly going into administration has come up I've always said that I hoped it didn't happen. Having been through it with Pompey (not to mention spending years experiencing a complete lack of investment by Deacon and Gregory Jnr comparable to what you're seeing now) I know just what a thoroughly miserable experience it is. I do find it a bit rich though that some of you would have a go at any Pompey fans who might be enjoying your predicament given just how many times Saints posters on here have tried to goad me about Mandaric and then Gaydamak walking away and Pompey going bust. Not so funny when you're on the wrong side of the fence, is it?

You should know Nick Nack, you're the expert on hot air

Keep up doofus, it's not Riquelme, it's Saviola. Players Out: Hreidarsson - Celtic/ Reading Sol Campbell - Newcastle/ Villareal Utaka - Rangers/ Lens/ Rennes Kanu - Fiorentina/ Ajax (£2m!!!) Lauren - AEK Athens/ Bolton/ Wigan Kranjcar - Arsenal Players In: Saviola/ Drenthe - Real Madrid (Loan) Joey Barton (£3m)/ Benjani/ Michael Johnson (£6m combined) (Man City) Edu - Valencia (Loan) Manuel Fernandes - Valencia (£6m) Gary O'Neil - Boro (£4.5m) Edin Dzeko - Wolfsburg (£7m) Mirel Radio - Steaua Bucharest (£4.5m) Ronald Zubar - Marseille (£6m) Aruna Dindane - Lens (£6m) Blaise Matuidi - St Etienne (£8m)

You can't resist looking like a c*ck can you. 1. Show me the post where I said we made £16m profit on Defoe. Link please. 2. Made no profit on Defoe? Whether we received the money in cash or not is immaterial. It means any money we owed to Spuds for Defoe and Kaboul is wiped off which is money we could use elsewhere. Also, if you read the Times report you'll see that the £4m sell on clause that you so gleefully quoted yesterday was waived as part of the deal which made the total value of him moving to Spuds £19-20m. We've really come out of that one badly, haven't we? What about the money for Mendes you reported we still owed that I showed you was incorrect? No comment on that? 3. Of course we won't spend heavily in the TW. Gaydamak's reducing the debt which makes the club easier to sell. We'll still bring in 4 or 5 players this month though. 4. As for our credit rating, the problem with this analysis is the use of Equifax as a source. Equifax has committed the classic error of searching for the accounts under the name of 'Portsmouth Football Club' - the latter has nothing to do with Pompey now. Pompey is actually registered with Companies House under the name 'Portsmouth City Football Club'. Search for that and proper accounts will be found. The fact that Equifax has made this basic error does not say much for the quality of its work: even a quick check should have led it in the right direction. Its report looks like a quick job to gain publicity rather than anything else. You were so excited when you wrote all that as well, weren't you. Thought you'd really shown me a thing or two. What a c*ck :smt044

The way you wrote that it's almost as if you don't believe me Tottenham will pay Portsmouth only £9 million to bring England striker Jermain Defoe back to White Hart Lane, despite the total value of the deal being £19 million. http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league/spurs-to-pay-pompey-only-pound9m-in-pound19m-defoe-deal-1593795.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/tottenham/4144050/Tottenham-get-Jermain-Defoe-for-just-9m.html

I've highlighted the relevant bits for you as you seemed to have trouble understanding normal, basic English. So can you tell me how you think I didn't read your post? :smt044 I didn't say we made £16m profit. I said we made a nice profit. Whether we accepted some of that £16m in px for Kaboul or to pay off what we still owed, it's still extra income isn't it you dumb tw*t? Because otherwise we would still have had to pay it. Which means that money is now freed up for something else. Or would you disagree? I notice you ignoed the point about the £5m they paid us for Redknapp being used to pay off some of the money we owed Spuds as well. Keep trying though, you never fail to give me a big laugh PS, don't want to upset you but it's being widely reported that the total value of the deal is around £19m. Meaning we made even more of a profit. LOL

Maybe you shouldn't believe everything you read in your tabloids. We may still owe some on Kaboul, but considering that 50% of any fee has to be paid in advance and his cost was around £6million we probably owe a bit under £3million (we have probably paid at least one installment of the remainder). Similarly, Defoe was about £8million, so we would have owed no more than £4m immediately after he signed and since the rest is payable over two years, we would have paid nearly half of it if the installments were monthly, or a quarter if we paid a quarter every 6 months...so we would have paid 1 of the 4 million we would owe at the very least. So, the most we would owe them is about 6million, meaning we will get £10million plus the remainder of other fees written off. With regards to Mendes, under Prem rules you cannot still owe money on a player after you've sold him. Which means that we can't possibly owe Spuds any further payments for him. Finally, the tabloid ****s seem to be forgetting, in their rush to write us off and laud Harry that it was widely reported that the £5m "fee" we got from Spuds when Redknapp joined them paid off much of the cash we owed them for Defoe and/ or Kaboul. So are we paying them twice for Kaboul or something? LOL Like Dull Days, you really ought to think about what you write before posting it or you just end up looking like a **** :smt044

Goals so far this season: Defoe - 9 Crouch 12 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/club_stats/default.stm Nice research there Dull Days :smt044

Not sure that I agree that he's **** on us. Defoe's a professional and just doing a job, much like most of us on here (albeit much better paid than most of us on here.) People tend to put a different perspective on things when footballers are concerned but to Defoe leaving Pompey for Spurs is no different to me leaving my current employers to move to a new company, especially if I'm offered more money. It was pretty clear that Defoe didn't really want to leave Spuds in the first place but wanted to play regularly. In all honesty I'd rather players were honest (like Diarra when he joined us saying we were a stepping stone to a bigger club) than players running round the pitch kissing the badge on the shirt when you know that, like Defoe, they'd leave if anyone offered them more money. Pompey are paying big wages because that's the only way you can compete in the Prem these days and like Diarra, at least PFC made a massive profit on what they originally paid for him. Actually I think it's nearer £16m. :cool:

I claimed none of our top players were leaving? When? Like when I posted this on the 15th Dec: Don't see a firesale happening in Jan. Diarra will be off, the only question is to who. I was told that Man Utd had bid £16m for him (they failed with a £12m bid back in the summer) but that Man City are willing to go to almost £20m to get him if they need to (!) but Real Madrid are supposedly showing interest now at around £20m so we should make a decent profit on him wherever he goes. There might be a shock move for Sol Campbell to Newcastle if they'll match his wages and that would be fine with me. Gets two of the highest earners of the wage bill and Kaboul's looked good when hes played. The only other one I can see leaving is maybe Johnson. Spurs have of course been linked but I've heard that Benitez is interested. Would be hard to turn the move down for him if that happens. http://saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=6507 Good to see you using a quote that had absolutely nothing to do with the point you were trying to prove. It was made in response to Granty saying that of the 13 players we have who are out of contract in the summer quite a few of them must be our better players. I posted the link to prove that wasn't the case. Try and understand basic English before you post again and make yourself look a knob No. I think he was saying that the quote was fine but that Defoe was lying when he made the claim. Of all the people who've left Pompey the only ones who claimed they received threats are Defoe and Quashie. Funnily enough, they both left to link up with Redknapp. Coincidence eh? Amazing that Diarra didn't receive any threats, wouldn't you say?

Keep up Badger, the Chinese bid died a while ago. It's South Africans now. Gaydamak wants £65m for PFC and I'm told the South Africans have secured funding of £60m and that the rest will be available in a week or two. However, I've been told similar things before so who knows. But that's the latest. Don't recall ever agreeing to a bet on the topic with anyone though. We did. Do you believe we'll win more trophies again before the likes of Real Madrid, Liverpool, Man City or even Spuds? (the teams our players are being linked with). PS: I hear Lallana, Surman and Schneiderlin (all sp?) all seem to have picked up "injuries" before your game tomorrow. Who'd have thought that none of them would be available and hence not be cup tied. What a turn up. :smt044

When did I say that none of our players would be sold? I clearly remember posting that Diarra would go, that Johnson would probably follow, that many squad players would go (including possibly Kanu and Campbell). But if you can post a link to one of my posts saying we wouldn't sell anyone I'll donate a grand to a charity of your choice. If not, how about you donating some cash to a charity of my choice? Or maybe just admit that you're full of **** :smt044 As for why these players want to leave, that seems fairly obvious. They'll join bigger teams, with more chance of winning trophies and earn more money. Exactly the same reason that people like Shearer, Bridge, Walcott, Bale (and on and on and on) left you.

I have to laugh at this board sometimes. You're taking the **** out of us for selling a current England international for around £15m (double what we paid for him a year ago) whilst on the main board your fans are weeping and wailing that your best player this year (who isn't even your player but was on loan from Chelsea) has now joined Watford for the rest of the season. I'm disappointed to lose Defoe. He's one of the top players in that position in the country. But if he wants to go, let him go, take the profit and buy a player who wants to play for the club (or at least take the money until a bigger club comes in for him)

I didn't say all of them would be leaving, just listed the thirteen that are out of contract to show Granty that it's not all first team regulars. I'd imagine that a few of them (Davies, Pamarot, Hughes) might be offered new deals as they're decent squad players. The likes of Traore (that's Djimi please note, not Armand), Thomas, Primus, Duffy, Christophe and Hreidarsson have barely played (if at all) this season so wouldn't be missed at all. That leaves Campbell and Kanu who will probably move looking for one last pay day. Others will undoubtedly leave like Defoe and Johnson but the money we'll get for them means we'll be able to afford replacements. Wouldn't be surprised to see Kranjcar leave either but if we sold all three we'd pull in around £30 - £35m for them. Add that to the £20m for Diarra (I know we won't get all the money in one lump sum but that means we won't have to pay it all out on one lump sum either) and even allowing for Gaydamak retaining some of the cash it would give us enough to buy some very decent replacements.

There is indeed legislation to prevent a player from joining his previous club less than one calendar year after he left (as I've pointed out to Granty) but you can ask for special dispensation from the Prem for the deal to go through. Spuds made a tentative approach offering £10m which Pompey laughed at. As for the players who played against West Ham, Campbell, Davies, Hughes and Little all played and Kanu came on as sub. However, Davies and Hughes hardly got a game last season and will be bit part players once new CM's are signed, Little is on a one year contract that won't be renewed and it's undoubtedly Campbell and Kanu's last season with us. Kanu is at best a sub these days and Campbell's days are numbered. They're hardly the best players at the club which Granty was suggesting. Of all of them, Campbell is probably the only one that could be considered a first choice player and even he has been left out for Kaboul a few times this season.

Unhappy players = devalued players. Like Berbatov? LOL We won't get £6m for Distin but would easily get £8-9m for Johnson. We paid around £4m for him so we're going to make a decent profit on a player that is now a regular in the England squad. Pompey may not be as skint as you keep saying Granty. You keep banging on about our £95m debt (can you post a link to prove that figure's correct or let us know where you came by that figure) but if we were that desperate, how come we've turned down a £10m bid from Spuds for Defoe and told them we want closer to double that figure? Doesn't tie in with what you're saying above. Without seeing the list of players whose contracts expire, I would guess that a number of those are among your better players, and they're all going to need replacing. From the outside, it looks as if the squad as it is at the moment isn't big or strong enough, so without those 13 players, that's going to need significant spending to replace those players. Money you appear not to have. Here's the 13 out of contract. Tel me which of them are among our better players: Sol Campbell Richard Hughes Sean Davies Jerome Thomas Noe Pamarot Linvoy Primus Kanu Glenn Little Herman Hreidarsson Lauren Djimi Traore Christophe Richard Duffy How many of that lot (earning £15m a year between them if reports are accurate) are crucial to our first team? Yes and no, I suspect. Cutting your cloth accordingly will involve only spending what you're actually bringing in whilst reducing the debt - with gates of 19-20k, that's not going to leave very much to spend. Imagine if we were getting gates of 30,000 in a new stadium. That would generate a whole £6m a year more! Not to be sniffed at but hardly make or break. TV money is far more important these days. No-one seems to keen to comment on the fact that Pompey, a club with no money who are having to sell every player they can to survive in January have just bought someone for £4.5m. Doesn't really tie in with what you're saying on here, does it? Add in the fact that PFC signed the final contracts for our training ground at Lee on Solent at noon today and what you've been saying doesn't seem to make much sense. No comments chaps? Almost made it worth having to come in to work for an extra day today to see you lot gnashing your teeth