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I know that Michael Owen sat out the transfer window, waiting for someone to ask him to dance, but what other free agemts are there out there, and could they do a job for us ? Upson on a 6 month contract could be worth a punt, maybe a better option than Seabourne. Anyone else tickle your fancy ?

The liverpool story is quoted at €5m for an initial loan, and then 15m nezt season. Given that Bolonga insisted on 8 or 10 Mill up front from Saits, it seems unklikely that the Liverpool deal would allow Bolonga to pay their debts and sign the players they are linked with with just €5m. Would be strange if Bolonga accepted Liverpool's Jam Tomorrow deal.

Having Redknapp as a transfer consultant would be like letting Pete Doherty run your Pharmacy. As for Harry's comment that he is best when he can manage top players, no **** sherlock. Try getting Paul Wotton, Simon Gillett and Wes Thomas to recreate the Tardelli goal in the World Cup, that would be good management.

The keeper that got Swansea promoted, De Vreis is now on the bench at Wolves. Good shot stopper and great distribution. Doesn't seem to fit in at Molyneux so could be worth a go ?

Don't often agree with Birtles, but we needed to move the ball a lot quicker. Definate foul for the 2nd, but he still took too long on the ball. I think there will be a few new faces in this week, as today we looked a bit like Swansea without their wingers. We did hit the post twice though, so it could all have been very different. Nigel needs to show them a video of that Channon goal against Liverpool. One touch training all week for us.

Once we sort out the flanks we will get better. Got caught out a few times, JayRod made a few bad choices first half, and our midfeild needs to work out where to stand at corners ( Nasri andTroare for the last 2 ) Played very well though. If we can add the 2 wingers and some CB's we should do OK.

For those of you interested in new technology, I have managed to track down a picture of the Super Computer that the PST used to come up with it's budget forecasts. It was also leased to Portsmouth City Council, to calculate average spend at homegames.

I think Chinny is streets ahead of most of us in cunning. He will have some plan of how to get all the best out of contract players in without him putting any money in, while the club keeps ticking over until the PP's run out. Probably image rights again. This will equate to having to sell 400 shirts with Brain Howard on the back every week. He has already put them into admin twice, but in such a way that his finger prints were never on the trigger. Another 2 years trying to get back to the big time, with no risk to himself, and another admin if it doesn't come off.

I am fairly certain that Lawrence and Kitson were signed by Lambitt when Chinrai was last in charge of the club, though that doesn't stop Chinrai pointing the finger at them again, rather that those who gave them the contract in the first place. Oh the irony!

I think Morgan could flourisj alongside another Defensive midfield player, to give hom more freedom to move forward and also to stop the opposition wife men cutting inside and shooting. He has pretty much all the technique of Schweinsteiger, he just needs a bit more time to develop. Cork on the other hand is a typical english cm, who runs around a lot, often bewcause he is in the wrong position to start with. For the Norris goal, he was chasing the ball on the half way line, when he should have been 5 yards in front of Fonte. He is just like Henderson of Liverpool but with a worse shot.

As another thread on here has turned into another debate on the merits of Guly, it got me thinking about the players over the years that some fans love to hate. In the 80's, 3 of us moved our Season Tickets from the LoverWest to the Lower East Terrace, as we were fed up with the constant abuse hurled at Paul Rideout. Rideout was harranged for not being as fast as Rod Wallace, not as skillful as Le Tiss and not scoring as many goals as Shearer. I would have liked to have been brave enough to point out that a player with those attributes would be worth more than Van Basten . Instead we moved to somewher more positive. Rideout got his revenge years later at Tranmere. What are other posters memories of the boo boy victims ? I can remember Bally getting some stick ( from me too ), and also Sideways Jim Magilton. Maybe we can come up with a boo boy's eleven ?

I voted, but I found it hard to pick the number of choices for CB, CM and CF. Jageilka, Cahil and Lescott are good. Rio is past it, Terry is to busy trying to look hard and King is a fitness gamble. Are there really no other english centre halfs ? Barry and Parker are good, but Gerrard and Lampard are past it. Up front Rooney and Crouch are the only ones in any kind of form ( SRL and Holt aside). The wingers do offer some options. First Defender, goal kick, goalies hands or occasionally find one of there own players. Looking at that lot, it's ashame Harry didn't get the job, as it would be fun to see the press go for him when they are on the early flight home. Its a good job I'm not that patriotic, as I would be in for a disappointing summer.

If you read the whole interview, he states that we are 2 years ahead of schedule, so we will have to plug the gaps with signings. I would expect a lot of younsters to go out on loan, although we will be in a proper reserve league which might boost development. In two years time JWP,Sinclair, Chambers, Corby-Moore , Stephens and Shaw might well have developed into first team regulars.

Chinrai and CSI ( who owe 70% of their debt to Chinrai ) are the two biggest creditors ( 49%). So Chinrai will get about 25/58th of any CVA payments. If I were in his shoes, I would make the CVA pay anything left out of the Parachute Payments after football creditors have been paid. TB estimated this at £5 Mill, so Chinrai could get nearly 2.5 Mill. Add in to this any transfer fees received ( Ward, Pearce, Halford, Huslekep ..... thats about it ) and there could be a few hundred thousand pounds extra. Chinrai only has to beat the Trust's bid to buy the club, so he could probably get it for £2 Million. If he puts this money into the CVA, he will get nearly half of it back. So in two years time, BC could have a small profit on his investment, probably secure whatever money he puts in against the Stadium or make it equity , and be ready to sell it all on to the next chancer. If he lets the club get liquidated, all he will get is a share of the proceeds of the sale of FP and the office equipment. I must point out that this is my opinion, and I am a very honest person, so someone with a bit more guile than myself could probably extract a lot more money from the club while the FL are looking the other way.

If Bristol City win at Burnley and the Skates lose at Forest, the gap will be 11 points. So they could escape punishment again .

Does anyone know of any bars in Nantes that show Sky Sports ? I am up there for a Stephen Malkmus gig on Saturday. Could be a Guitar Hero/Promotion double header. Old Sarum, if you read this, can you text me the scores ? Don't think I will be able to wait until Sunday to watch it.

I'm in Nantes for this, for a Stephem Malkmus gig. Will sky plus it, but does anyone know a pub in Nantes with sky sports?

I can't undestand why pace is rated so much more than delivery for wide players in England. Wingers like Lennon run very quickly, get into space and then fire aimless percentage balls across the box, in the hope that someone gets on the end of it. Players like John Robertson, Steve Guppy or even MLT when he was younger didn't need to get 5 yards past someone to get a cross in, and when they did it usually ended up with one of their own players. De Ridder falls in betwen both camps, doesn't fly past his man and hits percentage balls when he does. He is a bad decision maker who often slows it down rather than just knock it forward and run with it. Needs a lot of work to unlock his ability in the close season.

I would like to know ( Clapham ? ) who decides how Baker Tilley decide to vote if CVA2 is put forward ? Do they have a vote of all the unpaid creditors of CVA1 ? If so HRMC have almost half of the vote on that ( 7/16th ) .

Don't forget that parachute payments count as turnover, so they can beat the 65% rule on wages, even though most of the PP's are already owed to football creditors. More opportunities for quality signings !

9 points adrift now. Shame

I think Chaplow will be on the bench, to give us CM cover. Probably best to start with whoever gives Richardson best cover. Guly didn't yesterday and SDR gave te ball away in dangerous positions. Not sure Puncheon or Falque would be any better defensively. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if we had a proper Defensive Midfield player, like the one Brum have on loan from St Etiene. Cork and Hammond are just bulk standard English midfielders, run about a bit, pass a bit, tackle a bit. Morgan is more of a creator, we need a more destructive option. A Makellelee/Mascherano type of player would have been on top of Norris at the end yesterday, and would cope better with players cutting inside the full backs.

Guttting to let Norris have that late shot. However, we are currently still top, and 11 pints from 5 games should see us up. We have already booked a play off spot. Although injuries are mounting, and although form/on TV/Friday 13th all points to a slip up against Reading, Reading have two other difficult away games, and West Ham have two tricky home games coming up. Any draws by West Ham take 2 points off the 11 point target. Fingers crossed for Monday.

Feed went down for the last 10 minutes. Don't know about offside and wonder who should have closed down Norris. Blue line under it, and on to Palace. Glad people are saying Lambert isn't fit. Slagging of Sharpe worked dividends last week.

I just cancelled the contract I took out on Adam Blackmore ( Don't tempt fate next time commentator )