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Most of those guys were signed last summer when they knew they were skint. Piquionne & Dindane were also taken on for £30k/week +. Boateng's £22,000-a-week contract lasts until 2012, with Portsmouth hoping to realise a transfer fee of around £5 million. Portsmouth will also listen to offers for Nadir Belhadj, John Utaka, Michael Brown, Papa Bouba Diop, Hayden Mullins and Aaron Mokoena, who are all on weekly wages between £15,000 and £32,000. When we knew we were in trouble we loaned out the high earners we couldn't sell and played kids. And how the hell do they think they can afford to pay £10k/week in the CCC even if they start on zero points and zero debt?

One of things that really p1sses me off about this site is how certain people (& I'm not picking on you personally because I can't remember or be bothered to check up who they are) always seem to put the boot into any youngster who doesn't excel every game. James is a classic, but a lot of people have had it in for Schneiderlin, and what has Seaborne ever done so wrong? It's not unreasonable to expect senior pros and big money signings to perform week in week out, but we should be supporting & encouraging the young lads not putting the boot in.

I think the CVA thing is a bit of a red herring. I can't believe in the current financial climate that the FL will let Poopey walk away scot-free from its tax liabilities without some form of punishment. And the previous owners bit cuts no ice with them, as we know to our cost.

I think Chris Perry was and is a great player - but he's 37 ffs. When we signed him from Luton he was playing League 2 and he's had 2 more years in higher divisions. Nobody on here is saying anything bad about him except he's getting old. It comes to us all.

I think Perry is a great player but way too old to play at the level we need all the time, Thomas is injury prone and inconsistent and Lloydy, much as I like him, is limited. (Plus the rumours on here about his off-field misdemeanours)

The only time he looked below par was when he came back from injury in Feb, but as the alternative was Wotton I guess he was rushed back!

At last justice is beginning to be done. Well done Chelski, now bring on the HMRC!

Who says CHEATS don't prosper? What is the point of being an honest, law abiding citizen. Feck it, from now on I tell the taxman I earn half what I do, maybe I'll find a mistress (and lie about the size of my c*ck, too), do all the coursework for my son's GCSEs, claim fraudulently on my insurance, become a double glazing salesmen. I mean what is the fecking point? I'm with Nickh on this one - cup winners, zero points in the CCC and a sugar daddy in the wings. Fecking useless Chelsea. It was them that got me into 40 years of misery as a football fan - 1970 cup final - I chose Chelsea, my brother Leeds. He escaped to be a rugger bugger and play tennis and golf, I persuaded my father to take me to the Dell at the start of the following season and the rest is a history....

Note the grudging acceptance of the Mail that he is safe as long as he promotes us. I don't think anyone would argue that he'd deserve it if he failed The Mail is an odious right wing rag for bigots who think they are superior to Sun-readers. It's never done Saints any favours and anything they print about anything is tainted with small-minded spite. (Rant over) http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/420391535?-11205

I thought it was a picture of Mark Jacob. Were they ever seen together in public?

He is excellent in different ways. He is the one you only notice when he is not there. He's not flashy but very effective at breaking up play and keeping it simple. Of the others, Thomas - has to go. Maybe a goalscoring legend but he is old, unfit, expensive & never really quite cut it. Perry, Wotton, Murty are all past their prime. Holmes is a physical wreck Forecast, Lancashire,Thompson, Gobern and Gillett are never going to make it. Otsemobor is okay but we can do better. Mills and James I still hope might make it, but both might be better off moving on. Everyone else I'd keep. I can't believe people don't rate Barnard and Seaborne - he's only twenty-two with two season's league experience behind - and he is going to be a good player. As for Barnard he is Brett to Lambert's Beatts - the perfect combination. (And he knows where the goal is.)

Did any one else notice that on the BBC South thing yesterday when Farmery started talking about Pompey being humiliated nationally and locally they used a shot of TCWTB to illustrate the point?

Reading this in the Telegraph - Many of Portsmouth's top earners this season – including Frédéric Piquionne, who is paid £37,500 a week, and Aruna Dindane, on £27,500.... just reminded what CHEATS they are.

i think he has done a brilliant job. He has a real eye for a player & I sincerely hopes he stays

I played cricket against him once and he shared a beer with us afterwards. He seemed a decent sort of a bloke so I'm very pleased he has survived

I beileve the technical term for a Labour vote in Chichester is a wasted vote, but I have to keep the faith.

And presumably what happened to Southampton Leisure Holdings when Markus took us over.

The man is mentally ill - even the posters on the thread below it are not taken in by the bullsh1t http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/frattonlatest/Grant-Here39s-proof-Pompey39s-demise.6272644.jp?CommentPage=2&CommentPageLength=10#comments

Would there ever be a better way to lose a tenner?

Seven hours without a post. Definitely that post 500 pages complacency setting in.......

Last game of last season, going down in admin from the CCC - 23927 fans. Poopey last game in Prem, still with a cup final to come - 19213 fans. Sh1t ground, no fans. Sh1t fans (and soon I hope), no ground.

You look at the Wolves squad which mostly consists of journeyman pros & Poopey's, still with some relatively big names in it (never mind fees and wages!), and you wonder why Grant is worshipped (apart from the flukey FA Cup run) by the Blue few. Fee for fee, wage for wage, I bet Poopey's team costs three or four times that of Wolves. In a division with so much dross at the bottom you have to be real sh1te to finish sub-thirty points like they will. Oh, and a great quote on Solent from a Poopey mong - 'If we can keep this squad together we will win the Championship next year'. Du-urh

I'm glad someone is paying attention. Jedward indeed! (And Buctootim is not really one to comment on avatars unless it a self-porttrait or it's is Mrs Buctootim.)

The feud between the FA & the FL is nearly as old as organised football itself. The FA were the founders and guardians of football, but basically amateur, southern and posh. The FL was founded in the north-west as a breakaway professional, working men's league, not dissimilar to the situation between the Rugby League and Union. For most of the last century the FL had the upper hand, mostly running professional football with the FA only keeping it's claws on the non-league game, England and the FA Cup (which was why the FL started the League Cup and were always opposed to promotion/relegation in and out of the league). Then, as tensions mounted about where football was heading in the late eighties, some whizzkid at the FA came up with the idea of the Prem, promising riches beyond reason if the top clubs split with the FL to join their league. One hundred years of hurt at FA HQ had been revenged and they were top dogs again. And now this is their chance to see the flat-caps of Lytham St Anne's off once and for all. Their desire for vengeance makes the Serb and Croats seem quite forgiving by comparison, but this - even more than the money - is what it is all about. History lesson over!

As far as I am concerned I am not in love with professional football any more. (I still love the Saints, but that is an irrational, obsessional, unhealthy kind of love.) Even when we were in the Prem I struggled to care/engage with what was happening beyond the impact on us. I find myself watching MotD only when there is nothing better on, I have watched almost zero Champions League matches, and much as I have enjoyed the Fulham 'fairytale', (primarily for Bairdy's sake), I am aware that that has been bought at huge expense. I watched my sixteen year old lad win a cup final on Thursday night and it really mattered. I was every bit as excited as he was, but I really don't give a damn who wins the Prem and my only interest in the Cup final is the hope that the Skates get turned over. In fact seeing them lose every week has been the only interest in the Prem this season. Greed is killing it for everyone below the top. I loved watching the young lads coming through and going on to represent England as a Saints player - from Bridgey and MLT back as far as seeing Micky Channon make his England debut (showing my age, I'm afraid), but clubs like ours will be denied that forever more. Walcott and Bale are the future - snatched away while still schoolboys to sit on some Prem teams bench. Virtually every club below the Prem (and some still in it!) are on the verge of ruin at a time when there has never been more money sloshing about the game. The last three times Liverpool won the title it was (I think) Saints, Ipswich and Watford that finished runners-up. That will NEVER happen again for provincial clubs. The top ten in the Prem are likely all to come from the four big cities and ever more so the end of season table is a mirror-image of the wealth league. Will anyone outside Manure & Chelski ever win the title again? They should take heed of Scottish football - when competition dies it is the beginning of the end.