rallyboy

So they've pulled back the curtain and AA was just a puppet being operated all along, polite applause..... How much does Chanrai want to risk before he gives up on any return? It owes him maybe £30M in loans with interest payments PLUS the cost of running the club through admin. He'd have to find another £15M immediately? £45M for a business in that state with pending 'issues', and with the initial parachute payments destined elsewhere?? Even Noel Edmonds couldn't get you to deal for that. It's a long wait for a return, and during that time you wouldn't want to put anything in, it would just be a case of keeping it trading on life support until the final tv money appears. No, the figures still don't add up.

yes, and Portsmouth gave their ground to a charity shop who showed it to Cash in the Attic. They didn't want it. Storrie sold it at a car boot sale for £12.

congratulations to the thread, it's grown and become a beast to control - it's quiet at the moment but you just know that if you wave a stick at it and let it off the lead it will be off again all over the show. Takeover? What a crazy idea, should have been locked on day one. I think the taxman needs to give it a special birthday present....

Jimmy was last sighted driving around Hedge End with two Gary Glitter tribute artists (possibly Jedward) in a BMW concept-derivative proto-type.

8,000 season tickets for a business that might not see Christmas is quite impressive. But for a club on the up and about to exit administration it is less so - it depends on how realistic the punters want to be and I certainly wouldn't believe any talk of 'ringfencing' season ticket money - Chanrai has had it away already. With their reduced prices that must mean we have comfortably overtaken them with regard to matchday income. It's clear that Saints are much better supported but their Prem pricing meant that all of the former owners had a nice slush fund on the go every summer. That cash is greatly reduced so in tandem with the least successful firesale in history I'm not sure how they will be able to honour this cva should it escape the attentions of the taxman. The noose is tightening and the expenditure continues every day.

as far as squad strength and fundraising goes that's a double disaster. Suggestion was that he could have been a great player for them at that level and was highly valued, presumably Wigan's alleged £500K interest was a feeble attempt to start a bidding war? Does this expose the fact that Pompey have no power to make offers or to retain anyone? Hamburg have just driven a bus through AA's ****y claims about a promotion push, the dismantling will continue. roll up, it's bargain time, everyone must go, and if the taxman reappears the future will look very bleak indeed.

I thought he was an excuse for a manager.

funny how the younger talented players on low wages are easy to offload but the disinterested overpaid ones just take root and eventually have to be chased off the premises with a shltty stick. (see the case of Walcott/Bale v Rasiak/Saga) They're going to have a team containing so much deadwood you could stick a sail on it and relocate it in the historic dockyard.

so pompey could lose their most promising prospect through trying to rip him off? AA needs to stand up with his hand of twos and threes and tell the rest of the poker club that they can't just take HIS players and that he will refuse derisory offers...he has excellent cashflow and doesn't need to sell, there will be no firesale, in fact he is looking to recruit rather than sell, they are building a premiership club to last a thousand generations etc.... Unless his puppet master wants half a million quid spending money. And as Avram says, 'you can't break their spirit but you can take their coaching staff'.

will they start bringing in new players from as early as monday now Maradona is free of international duties? The CVA is all sorted and AA had an email from some Ukranian, so now that the final managerial piece of the jigsaw is in place i guess we can close the thread.

he went back to Germany to vandalise parked cars, look for midfielders to cripple and gather some more cheap-looking tattooes - and he ticked all boxes!

Never let your ignorance of the facts prevent you from having a strong opinion on any subject - and imposing it on anyone who is dim enough to listen. I see no facts, no story - until the names are dropped I will remain bubbling under in a pre-outraged state, just in case - ready to launch at short notice.

I think you'll find that was Dindane who they were contracted to buy as a development of the loan deal (twice according to Storrie's version of events) but refused/didn't. A bit like borrowing someone's car to go to the station and returning it a year later. I'm sure AA tried to sell O'Hara to Spurs. And they will have paid up, with all the little benefits that accompany such a deal!

Lazio should agree to £8M but only give them £1.6M - and not until 2015. It shouldn't be a problem as 20p in the pound is a rate that AA regards as fair.

Pompey are close to agreeing the £8m double sale of Nadir Belhadj and Prince Boateng to Lazio. 1. I don't see them getting that amount. 2. What little 'specials' did Storrie write into the original deals? 3. After all parties have had their cuts will they clear £4M? 4. Two prize assets sold for just one month's wages? 5. Will AA manage to shuffle any proceeds straight across to his puppet master? 6. Are Lazio interested in Pulis?...

they all need to be castrated, that would calm them down and help them concentrate on football, it should be part of the signing on process for players above maybe League One status. That would give the playoffs a bit more edge. And they could stand more relaxed when defending free kicks around the edge of the box. Maybe their clubs could recoup some of the wages by selling their frozen sperm through the shop as image rights?

shooting sounds like the only answer - go for a close range 'head, heart, stomach' grouping in quick succession and that sparrow ain't getting up. If it's in a public place like a park, after the shooting just walk away casually, no one will stop you, and get a reliable wheels man with something like an impreza. If that gives you the buzz you're seeking move onto cats and then women, traditionally this is the progression for most serial murderers who find they can justify killing prostitutes or any women out after 8pm by convincing one of the multiple-personalties roaming through their heads that they are 'cleaning the streets' - it often stems from impotency as well. But be wary, smear mud or dog's muck on your face so you can't be seen in the dark and check the rear lights on your little Metro, you don't want to be caught for just a minor traffic offence. Finally, less time killing, more time digging - a shallow grave will always be found, then again one of your other multiple personalities may want that and make you leave clues - but start with a sparrow and see if you can cover that atrocity first.

if anyone's organising a hit it's likely to be the arms dealer, and I don't mean a sugary pop ballad from the Simon Cowell stable. Shouldn't be too long before someone discovers that the Russian/Israeli mafia doesn't like the sound of 20p in the pound.

it's amazing how much interest he's generated in such a dire squad. They were proven to be the worst team over 38 games yet in a football recession when wages are key, AA has dozens of clubs locked in bidding wars over his star players - he should be able to name his price! Or looking at Hutch's research (far too much spare time!) maybe fibs spill out of AA's gob every time he opens it.

the two hypothetical families may be in the same mess but the difference is that the authorities will come down heavily on the ones that continually flick two of their eleven fingers at creditors. And the fact that one family has a wife and a sister who only requires one bus ticket.

all football decisions are on hold while Maradona is still involved in the world cup, and they won't be able to complete signings until the Spanish and Brazilian players are free to talk. It may seem like nothing is happening but more money pours out of the club everyday - astronomical wages, crippling interest - it's all gathering pace behind the scenes. With the use of a calculator and an anorak I would estimate they've run up £100 more of overheads debt in the time it took you to read this post. And another £100 while you're thinking about it.

Roy Lunnis only died about three months ago, I believe his finest hour was kicking Paine around for an afternoon.

the biggest fear from AA was that an interested party would actually 'have a look' - they'll never be seen again. Far easier to sell the club on the glossy brochure than the reality, especially when big progress is judged by 'getting an email' or 'thinking about setting up a meeting'.

Terry still sounds proper Ampshire! Good lad. And when a lad, Arthur English used to be the grocery shop's boy riding his bike around Aldershot. Never said it was interesting, just a fact!

if they can hang onto Kanu and James they will be bankrupt again before Christmas. Wakey wakey, it's time to offload players to stabilise the business, not build a squad for the imaginary Europa League campaign that AA is still working on, and charging for. If he continues to work on team strengthening he will turn a damaged club into a liquidated club. And if it's all just crazy talk to sell season tickets, there's no change there, and some of the fans aren't as dim as he thinks. Some aren't, many are.