stevegrant

Hmmm... http://www.pfcfinancialservices.co.uk The irony

I'll be forever suspicious of supposed "big players" going out of their way to put their side of events to prominent fans or fan groups after the bull**** we took from all comers in the last few years. If he wants to help the club, why doesn't he just write off the debt that's owed to him? Simple answer, because he's not actually that bothered.

With the cold weather, they could use the excuse that their assets have been frozen...

Why were you out driving in conditions like that? :confused: I wouldn't dream of attempting to drive if I knew the road conditions were actually dangerous. It's all well and good driving in heavy rain or fog, cars have features built into them to deal with them as far as they can (with a bit of driver common sense as well), but thick ice is so unpredictable and dangerous, I'd go as far as to say that it's irresponsible to attempt to drive in those conditions and I wouldn't be surprised if insurance companies took the same view.

The company will keep the records, yes, but Gaydamak doesn't own the club anymore, so he doesn't have access to them anymore. Apparently. :---)

That is genuinely laughable. I have a copy of their 2007 accounts (out of morbid curiousity more than anything else) and their debt stood at £67m, with assets only worth £33m

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Doubt it, they only signed him a year earlier from Tooting & Mitcham, so their contribution to his development will have been fairly negligible.

Perhaps it's the long-awaited signing by the ticket office for the package containing the MK Dons away allocation...

I thought he was only going to get to number 4 if he beat Taylor?

Seems the "normal" employees at PFC were paid on Sunday night. Pompey have of course absolved themselves of any blame whatsoever saying that there was an error with the file that was lodged with the bank, and that they'd reimburse any employee who experienced any knock-on effects as a result. One amusing comment on Pompey Online:

Or that they're not capable of driving at the speed limit because they are unable to handle the multitude of often-simultaneous tasks required.

Waddell would be tolerable if he could remove his head from Phil Taylor's arse.

No, I'm suggesting that Daddy doesn't need to buy the club because he actually already owns it, but has been concealing this fact ever since Junior "bought" the club from Milan Mandaric. Vast sums of money were injected to fund player transfers, but they would never have expected (or attempted) to get all their money back. In order to launder "clean" money, you need to put in a lot more dirty money. So say, for argument's sake, Junior puts in £50m of dirty money, leave it to slosh around for a year or two and then all of a sudden decides he's not willing to fund the club anymore and wants to sell (this just happens to coincide with Daddy's assets being frozen). To make it look like you're desperate to sell, you agree to hand the shares over for a nominal fee with the proviso that the new "owner" assumes the liability for the debt, much of which is actually owed to Junior in the form of director loans. If that debt ever gets repaid properly, all of a sudden Junior has extracted "clean" money from TV revenue, transfer fees and the pockets of the fans in exchange for the dirty injection earlier. Even if the club goes into administration and a buyer only offers to pay creditors 10p in the pound, he's still getting clean money out of the deal, so he's probably not bothered either way.

And Pompey fans should be incredibly worried by anybody who comes in and claims that Option 2 is the best option. All that would facilitate is a changing of the guard, and the club would still remain completely insolvent and unsustainable.

I didn't think he'd been convicted (or even tried) for the illegal arms dealing charges that has seen him on the Interpol wanted list for years - I was under the impression the relatively recent guilty verdict was a fraud charge?

Nail. Head. He knows exactly what's going on, because he (or, more accurately, his father) is still the owner, but these comments cast doubt on the views of those who have managed to piece enough information together. I'm absolutely stunned that Scotland Yard have been going after the relatively small-fry Mandaric, Redknapp and Storrie when there's a MUCH bigger picture in this whole episode, IMO.

Correct. From what I've heard from people who have been doing some proper digging into this, Ali al-Faraj apparently has even less money than me, and that's saying something. My belief is that the beneficial owner is still a certain Israeli who is currently in hiding in Russia having been convicted of fraud in abstentia in his homeland, but of course can't reveal it properly as his assets are supposedly frozen. As you rightly say, there is no way on earth that a Saudi would appoint Israelis to run the finances (or indeed any part) of the club. It's all a big cover-up that will hopefully unravel in the coming weeks and months.

MK Dons would be the ones causing the delay. We've no reason to do so. I agree that it shouldn't make any difference, but as it's an evening game and an early kickoff, I suspect a lot of people would have needed to take time off work in order to make the trip, and even though we may ultimately get more than enough tickets to satisfy the demand anyway, I expect many people wouldn't be overly happy to book time off work for a game that they (in theory) might not be able to get a ticket for. As a result, now there's only two weeks before the game, many now won't be able to get that time off at such short notice, so won't be able to go.

My suspicion - and I have absolutely no evidence to back this up - is that they're delaying it for as long as possible so there's not enough time for a lot of people who would have travelled to get their tickets, therefore we end up with a smaller travelling support.

Arsenal or Wigan away. Pompey would be far too much of a distraction and even with their current woes, I'd still expect them to beat us quite comfortably. Maybe next year...

Bless them, they're so tied up in their web of lies that they're confusing themselves.

Reminds me of this fella...

Curbishley still can't take another job yet as he still hasn't negotiated his West Ham payoff.

Good point, I'd forgotten about that one!