benjii

Shareholders can make loans to a company - there's no contradiction there.

See my post above.... if we are to believe what we have read, their debt has decreased by about £10m in the last few days

Wouldn't it be funny if Chanrai's acquisition of the stadium resulted in HMRC being a substantive enough creditor to single-handedly block a CVA? Yes. Yes, it would.

I'm correct. There is no such thing as "hearing" a SoA anyway.

I am. If they go into admin before Monday then HMRC's petition will be stayed.

That's a bit rude but the gist is spot-on. It's amazing how many people are willing to post statements as though they are fact when what they really are are guesses and inferences based on other stuff they've read. Most of the time it is wrong.

Christ, for once in my life I'm in total agreement with this ****. Still, at least DP didn't talk about golf, wine or some other boring **** he's been up to.

Next year the following rules apply to Premier League teams: 1) - Squad of 25 players only 2) - 8 of these (or is it 6, can't remember now) must be "homegrown". "Homegrown" means that they spent three years contracted to an English league club before the age of 21. Cesc Fabregas would be "homegrown" for example. I've never heard of this until tonight but it was being discussed on 5Live and I swear that is what they said. I'm surprised by the squad limit bit.

just in case, eh? PMSL AAhhhhh!!! Very noble! :smt100 To the OP: If you are hurt I hope you're alright. Mate, I'm sure no one here finds your situation funny but there's something undeniably hilarious about this thread so thank you very much indeed!

Great stuff

It doesn't really have a "great" history either does it. Few clubs have "great" histories. Most, like the Skates have a couple of decent periods and mostly hum-drum or poor periods. They had a good spell off the back of World War Two; they then had what Harry Redknapp memorably described as "fourty years of dross", followed by an FA Cup win, a couple of mid-table finishes and an impending relegation.

Hehe.

Has there been any official confirmation that PFC sold the stadium to Chanrai?

He just said, "if only Portsmouth had an executive director with years of football experience on over £1million per year to tell them to sell some players in January".

Gab Marcoti slagging Peter Storrie off on 5Live now!

No chance. If they don't have funding by Monday they will be wound-up.

The Una-bummer.

Exactly. It's because they are basically a poor little lower league club.

Exactly - it's not even as though tickets will be hard to come by!

Because he's from the football old-school where intelligence, acumen and forward thinking are things to be scared of.

I quite like Alpine, he makes me laugh.

He's right. If banks were willing to provide credit to an unsustainable business on favourable terms in perpetuitiy then yes, they would be in a strong position. The only fly in this particularly lovely ointment, is that banks don't do that and never have. If only someone had told him this before...

Sell ground and surrounding land to overseas property developers with a publically expressed desire not to be involved with a football club.

Don't be embarrassed - none of it makes any sense!