stevegrant

He asked for a sum of money (believed to be around £500k) in order to a) keep the club running for another period of time, and b) give them a period of exclusivity to conduct whatever due diligence they wanted and to get a deal done. Leon Crouch, on behalf of Pinnacle, was the only person willing to do so at the time. We've no idea whether Liebherr would have concluded a deal sooner had that money not changed hands, we don't even know if the club would have survived long enough without it.

To be fair to Appleton, I'm sure his spell at Pompey will stand him in good stead for the future - if you can still maintain a semblance of dignity with utter carnage going on around you then that's a good start, but he's nowhere near the level of manager a relatively well-established Premier League club should be looking at yet.

No, that rule was removed at the end of last season. Clubs rightly argued that if the Premier League are insisting that they register a squad of 25 players deemed to be eligible for the first-team, they should be allowed to pick any combination of players from that squad. The ridiculous scenario isn't that they won't receive a sanction for picking such a weak team relative to their perceived first-choice, it's that Wolves and Blackpool were fined for doing so in the first place.

I don't think he's done that good a job. The squad he had at his disposal for most of the season should have been able to get itself more than 10 points clear of the bottom three before the problems started. Every manager down there seems to get hero-worshipped even when they're terrible, they'd give full backing to a chimp that could pour a cup of tea if it was given the job.

That was embarrassing

Does it suggest giving Peter Storrie the freedom of the city?

Are you Eddie Mitchell?

For a newly-promoted side, I suspect £1m a year is actually quite a good deal for us. Pretty sure our deals with Sanderson and Friends Provident years ago weren't anywhere near seven figures.

The aap3 deal was for 3 years and was agreed at various levels depending on the division we're in. If we'd not been promoted last season, it would have been around £200k in League One, it was around £500k in the Championship this season and will be around £1m in the Premier League next season.

Oh, I see Coventry fans have been waxing lyrical on their forums about our fantastic support on Saturday. Better stick it on the OS for everyone to **** over...

Definitely Scott Hiley.

I believe there was a representative of "Portsmouth City Football Club", which, given that it is in liquidation and in the hands of Baker Tilly, I assumed to be them.

Tried all of the addresses I've lived at in the last decade, still nothing

"Your details have not been recognised" Brilliant

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Apparently the source of the "oh noes, the tunnel's collapsed" rumour was the RMT

Newsflash

I assume we're finished on this now?

I remember back in the day when I was too young to drive so I'd go to away games on the travel club, he'd always pitch up at the Winnall roundabout carrying his postbag and still wearing his Royal Mail jacket

MLG, ever heard the phrase "plausible deniability"? That's my impression of these dinners, sure they take place, but there's no recording of what happens, who says what, etc, so if something outlandish gets out in the general public that turns out to be nonsense, the club can simply say "that's never been the plan, nobody ever said such a thing". After all, who's going to take the word of a fan plucked at random to attend over the person who is actually in charge of making the decisions? I remember last year sometime, someone claimed Cortese had basically revealed how much one of our first-team players was earning. Either that person was making it up, or Cortese was incredibly unprofessional in revealing such information (or, perhaps, he "revealed" a fictional number), which given his banking background seems somewhat unlikely. I wouldn't take comments that come second or third-hand from someone who's been plied with beer and wine all evening at one of these dinners to be gospel, to be honest.

Is the fella with the long hair at the bottom the postie who used to always go on the travel club to away games?

If 3 wins from 13 despite having the division's leading goalscorer at his disposal is your definition of "did well" I'd hate to see your definition of "did terribly" As for Pulis, he won them promotion to the Premier League that season, why on earth would he have left them (with Coates' pocket money to throw around like confetti) for us? Sounds like another of Leon Crouch's fantastic brainwaves, rather akin to the "if I get the bank to put the club into administration, I'll be able to own it 100% myself" one which ended so well for him.

I don't think they will. Don't forget we have a rather nice £12m windfall from the sale of Chamberlain to Arsenal, an extra £4-5m in broadcasting rights, an increase in ticket revenue (30% rise in ST prices, plus an extra 3k on the attendances), etc. Any costs incurred relating to the Academy and infrastructure development don't count towards FFP, so even with the new signings and new contracts awarded to existing players, I can't see us making a loss this season.

Nailed-on that they were one of the three clubs who voted against it - when it was last mentioned they claimed they'd take it to a judicial review