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not sure about the subs bench but if anyone needs pulling off at half time Uncle Avram can organise that at Horton Heath. I can see the Gaydamaks being a fiercesome Maginot-style defensive line, behind their line of lumpy grass outside the box where kids will lose their limbs - the war crimes tribunal's answer to the Chuckle Brothers. Quite a line up but maybe short on pace? Though I would imagine Storrie will show an astonishing burst when they find the real accounts. I take it in true blue tradition none of these players will be correctly registered, they'll be obtained by mysteriously buying out their contracts elsewhere and will arrive on a bus that will be driven straight through an embargo?

methinks Ho doesn't like this thread anymore, he started going off it when one or two of his great ITK claims amounted to diddly squat and his street cred hit zero - and it's still flatlining. There are ways to behave on an opposition site, humble and self-effacing are quite cool - but blind arrogance and denial is always hilarious. Do carry on everyone, it makes me chuckle, and this thread should continue all the time AA's golden goose keeps smearing omlettes all over his little chubby face.

I thought the precedent was set by Roy Keane admitting deliberate violence against an opponent in his book, I believe he was charged. Mokoena has clearly bought the game into disrepute and is so 'honest' he will no doubt plead guilty. On legal matters, how's the European appeal going?

.......so without a new owner is AA using extended admin as a safe harbour protecting the company from any further liquidation attempts, until the new company takes on the debt and is safe from liquidation itself? A gap between the two events would be an opportunity for a unpaid creditor to pounce and push for the death sentence, but all the time they delay the start of cva every unpaid debt is in limbo? Does a cva-approval for a cva that fails to proceed have a time limit before it runs out and it has to go back to court, or is that far too much to hope for?!

many people don't realise that the CVA hasn't even started, I presumed it would kick in as soon as it was approved by a lunatic in a wig but the wait goes on for that first elusive 3p in the pound. What's worse than being shafted by a football club that's stolen money from you? Having to wait for them to shaft you.

just another Saturday at Fratton Park, empty ground, no points - business as usual.

met Nigel Adkins today and I have to say he's a top bloke - and he's delivering on the pitch. As one who was quietly underwhelmed at his appointment, I think I was wrong and Cortese has got this one right. In Nicola we trust.

Saints 2004 - big money in - big money out but unwisely spent and now medium money in - medium money out spent wisely, building sensibly. With a big pot in the corner should we have need. I would imagine our business model is based on championship income at the moment so it needs to happen sooner rather than later. Pompey's business model could never have worked, it needed Champs League income to keep it propped up with a ground that couldn't generate diddly squat - it was insane and was only ever going to end one way. It makes Leeds look unfortunate. The director's should have been sectioned if they ever believed it was viable. I wonder when it will end?..... Man utd HUGE money in - HUGE money out -hugely reliant on continued success - one bad season with a 5th place finish and they are in big trouble.

so 675 pages in we are still trying to explain basic maths - it's like showing a retriever a card trick. big money in + big money out = okay small money in + big money out = bad big money in + small money out = Blackpool big money in + huge money out = Liverpool

if you think I'm wandering out on to the M27 at Junction 9 for a kickabout at Christmas you can think again.

I'm not sure they're getting away with much behind the scenes at the moment. No ratification from the FL for AA's laughable CVA. No sign of a real owner. No sign of any creditor getting a penny. Arms dealer claiming more money and increased security over assets. No sign of fresh investment. All quiet on the outcome of their European appeal. No sign of groundworks commencing at the harbour. And with every day that passes........the debt increases. tickety tock, tickety tock!

I have no issue with Mokoena getting away with an elbow, Mack is right, swings and roundabouts. BUT....announcing it to the world is pretty dim, and I'm not buying the 'look at innocent little me, I'm just too honest for my own good' - it's not the talk of someone who has just deliberately elbowed someone in the throat and described it as 'doing him'. I see a charge of disrepute or similar landing on his doormat sometime soon, they don't like players bragging about violent assault - but it was worth a point, so time well spent from his point of view.

He shouldn't have been there. He has a choice - dedicated sportsman in peak condition or party boy - you can't be both. Yes they are young men, they have money, they want to relax, and they may be drinking quietly and behaving themselves BUT they are paid very well to play football and represent the club on and off the pitch, they have chosen a profession that requires strict dietary discipline if you want to succeed. If one of our players was assaulted by pikey scum we would be livid. Let's hope the facts when they come out show that our player isn't in fact the pikey scum. We have to put aside the fact that he's been one of our best players, it's irrelevant to disciplinary matters - he needs a club fine just for being there for starters - I'm afraid his presence at that place and time brings the club into disrepute. I do hope his part is proven to be that of an innocent bystander, if not, he's in big trouble inside and outside the football club. And from a selfish point of view, the worst part will be that he's damaged our season.

if they were serious about saving money they would offload Kitson, Lawrence, Nugent, Kanu, Mokoena, etc, etc - rather than saving £100 a week on the yts kid from Gosport. And fair play to the kid, he should be the real future of the club, not the overpaid prima donnas that got them out of the top flight and into administration. Another stunt to fool the authorities and generate sympathy for poor plucky pompey who can't field a whole bench, from their squad of about 27! They have assembled a decent championship team, one that they can in no way afford to pay. New season, same stunt, different division, continued insolvency likely. What is the record time for a UK business being allowed to continue trading insolvently? They must have been doing it for about a year now - and Man City don't count, they keep chucking more funding in to balance the books.

well sadoldgit, if you are asking whether I would like us to be higher in the table, like everyone else I would say yes. If you are asking whether I would like to swap positions with Bournemouth, like everyone else who is sane I would say no, no, no, no, and no again. I have no Bournemouth envy of any sort, as clubs we are clearly heading in different directions, they were very poor and their position in the table looks freakish on that showing.

Mero, your glasses are on the coffee table, there you go, can you see clearly now?......

Howe must be seething - going to a place where he wasn't offered a job he wanted, desperate to impress - his players gave away two stupid clear penalties and one managed to get sent off for being an idiot. He tried to outplay us with football and failed miserably. His team has no pace, his chairman has no class, and we've established to their obvious annoyance that there is only one south coast derby. Bournemouth's hunt for local rivals continues......

difficult to toast when the electric has been cut off, he'll have to toast old school style using a fork and all those 08 accounts as a small fire..... I see they're trying to bring in Keith Gillespie to take over Storrie's role dealing with taxation and budgets, shouldn't be too expensive if they can do a job share with Ken Dodd.

Three great related myths with a tax evasion twist - Mandaric is good at selecting managers, Redknapp is great in the transfer market, Storrie is Mr Pompey. And a bonus myth for free - the few are the bestest. They are all having a larf mush.

Yes I thought that when we swept them aside the other week, it was really humbling. Maybe you should beware of the ones they call Brighton, they're coming your way with their new stadium and their solvent trading, in fact they might swap places with you at this rate. If we look along the whole south coast between Plymouth and Brighton, there's only one club being left behind.

can't be that much of a problem, Chanrai was a couple of days from passing the FaPP test a few months back, a formality AA said. So must be true. What became of the additional paperwork the FL requested to approve the CVA? Has it gone the same way as the European appeal? Perhaps even AA has had enough of his puppet master. Tell you what Andy, you dance when I say and bring me the club on a plate.....actually, not sure I want it anymore, looks a bit pricey....

AA's cva plans for the wages are hilarious! It looks like between AA, Chanrai and the money launderer they may well have cooked up a 'special' relationship. Arms dealer supports the cva knowing it is irrelevant to him, that shafts the taxman and a few others, he then produces his secured creditor status stay out of jail free card. Between them they've seen off a lot of the debt, a benefit to them all, but it leaves AA with a club that suddenly owes £25M-30M more than it did. Meanwhile the child-maimer still controls the land, Chanrai owns the players, they both have security on anything that isn't nailed down so they will always get something back. If the landmine-peddler proves secured status the business is unviable in the extreme. A new owner would need to find approx £25M for daddy £15M for Chanrai £10m for balance of cva £3M for AA £24M a year overheads? £50 for someone to burn the accounts dept down to avoid further charges £100 a week for dirty sex behind a skip on an industrial estate The parachute payments will clear the football creditors. Income? Not a lot. The cost of running a post-admin, debt-dodging Championship club in need of a new ground and training facility - approx £100M over the next two years? Only after you have paid for the honour of owning said 'business'. Bet they're glad they cleared all that debt and have a fresh start.

I can see how the delay Could leave them facing a penalty next season but surely they have escaped this season? (tax evasion aside) Remaining in administation is probably different to going into it after the cut off - isn't it August they need to worry about....? Not sure how the FL can be happy with what looks like an immediate change of plan. Wasn't it meant to be - exit admin with cva asap as the new owner was waiting in the wings clutching his cheque book, 9 month delay, liquidation of old company. I'm sure they didn't mislead the court and FL, maybe they both misunderstood AA's claims of a new owner? Is it the £3M initial payment to exit admin they can't afford?? AA's invoice will match that by March - it will cost a new owner £6M just to sign the contract, and their four top earners will have cost the club another £3M by then as well. As Gwen Guthrie sang, there ain't nothing going on but the overheads. Expensive business, in every way - can't see the dim creditors waiting that long for their first 3p.

from AA's latest report my understanding is that the cva only commences when they exit admin, and that will only happen when an owner buys the club. So I think they are a long way off having to pay a penny. I'm sure there are experts who can correct me - and AA!

They really should consider getting a new owner! Living in the Nomansland of semi-administration with a creditor who is convinced that he is the owner isn't a healthy place to be. They can't start the cva, they can't get FL approval, they can't meet the overheads, tis a slippery slope to Bankruptshire. It doesn't matter how many goals you bang past the worst ten players in the division, AA should be out there earning his money and selling the club, even if he doesn't care about the creditors. How long before creditors start complaining about lack of activity? My money is on the taxman to take action first, if his bottom has recovered from the last court trip.