rallyboy

So these are the recent developments - Mystery billionaire approaches Lloyd to front his bid and protect his identity - plausible. Lloyd takes this on with promise of money or a role in the new era - yeah, I get that.Backer sobers up and decides it's a crazy idea - very plausible. Lloyd continues without the funding for no apparent reason, then stumbles across a second billionaire - for me, this is where it starts to fall down... For a bloke whose own company is in big trouble he has quite a knack of plucking dim billionaires out of nowhere. We have either a man who wants a free day out at Wembley and a bit of an ego boost, or a shrewd player who knows billionaires aplenty and has the skills to negotiate them through the worst set of accounts they will ever see.

when they have idiots like Hertz Van Rental playing at the back they are doomed. On a yellow card, a week from Wembley, let's blatantly stick my arm out to stop an attack and see what occurs.... If he wasn't so dim he would realise that the chances of someone with his talent ever playing in such a big game again are remote, yet if they had lost 25-0 to Blackburn it would not make a jot of a difference to their season. Criminal management, stupid players - they are still on a suicide mission to get to the conference asap.

Redknapp is so predictable, we will now have a week of 'it's a great club, 'triffick' fans, they'll be back, Avram's done a tremendous job' hype, while Avram will join in with his 'it's unfair, we will fight to the last breath, the fans are fantastic, I want to stay, it's not our fault' claims. The funny thing is -they haven't shown any fight, the fans have abandoned ship, it is their fault, it's not a great club, Avram has done a woeful job, he doesn't want to stay, and they won't be back. Keep talking boys and we will keep chuckling along!

and let's not fall for the hype about 'poor Pompey' now being forced to field a weakened team, this is their real team we are just starting to see. They have been trading insolvently for six months now so they have played an illegally-strengthened team for 30 games. In fact they still have a couple of players who shouldn't be playing, either dodgy signings via that blatantly inaccurate paperwork presented to the Prem, or for the crazy wages that should have gone to creditors. Go on Avram, spin that into something positive, and while you are being measured up for the 'spirit of Pompey' statue you might want to explain to the Blue Very Few why your league record is worse than that of Tony Adams.

Suddenly it all makes sense. He must be the UK money man behind Pompey's Lloyd consortium, a figure who wants to keep a low profile until the deal is done. Rix back as manager, Glitter as the chairman, a new emphasis on the academy....and if there's enough money in it Storrie will also want to be in his gang, his gang, his gang.

We've been very fortunate, and I'm pleased for our saviour that he had a day out with his camera last week. The main positive that I saw at Wembley was the number of kids and families enjoying the day. Yes there were a few people who hadn't been to a game since 2005 and I even saw a Rasiak shirt, BUT by winning last Sunday in front of those kids we may have just secured the next generation of fanbase. Markus must be very pleased with his investment thus far, and so he should be, IMO NC and AP are doing pretty well. Last year I really feared we might go under, not because I'm a doom and gloom merchant but because I have a basic grasp of how business works - it was a close call and anyone who disagrees must be considering buying Pompey as it looks like a little goldmine... But for anyone who saw the club in its death throes in those games against Charlton and Burnley, we owe ML enormous thanks - the guy's a legend.

I think the wheels of Karma justice are starting to turn, I see a squad depleting to the level it should have been all season, and there seems little sign of debt-clearance or new ownership. And I still can't believe that they paid the 3rd choice keeper £5000 a minute to sit on a bench!

no.3 keeper Niemi on £14K a week?! Fair play to him, that must have been more than when he was playing in the Premier League prior to his first retirement. He can't be accused of not doing his bit to bring them down. Tomorrow will be interesting as whatever wind-ups are printed, they can't be funnier than the everyday news we've seen for the last six months. Thankfully everyday is practical joke day to the east.

you can't knock their commitment, while some Hartlepool fans couldn't be bothered, Pompey still remain the only club to have brought their entire fanbase to St Marys. And between them the Few had six different types of DNA. With travelling support like the 300 who went to Coventry or the 390 that went to Liverpool, I'm sure the missing 249,600+ will snap up the opportunity to further worship their hero Redknapp at Wembley - after all it's a proper trophy where only big clubs get to the final. Ask any Millwall or Cardiff fan.

Managing legend Avram would have no problem getting another job - if it wasn't for the fact that his league record at pompey must now be worse that that of Tony Adams. (our stattos can check that out) Some fans don't seem to let those facts get in the way of having a new man to worship so you can judge fans by their heroes, whether they be Bates, Le Tissier, Keegan, Liebherr or Redknapp, Grant, Fahim and Storrie.

they made no attempt to address debt, they made no attempt to sell players, now AA is making no attempt to sell the business. The first question from any prospective buyer would be the details of the debt. But AA hasn't got those figures yet....even though that should have been the second job on this first morning - after sacking Storrie. As he's an impartial administrator and not a puppet for an arms dealing money-laundering consortium, when's he going to start administrating??

Through injuries and loan agreements Pompey now seem to be losing a few of those players who shouldn't have been playing at all. It will now be interesting to see how good they look with the youth team approach forced on every other club that has suffered financial problems. Karma. Has the balance between football rivals ever tipped as much and as quickly as this one seems to be doing?

mine's gone, as did my opportunity to post replies when I needed to because I'm mean - good luck all.

I have one spare ticket at cost - A good one in Block 134. Post a contact on here if you need it.

They weren't meant to be paying loan fees. More importantly there were a couple of VERY unusual instances of players buying themselves out of contracts thus becoming available as an unregistered player for Pompey to sign. On another day the passing of money from club through player to second club could be defined as 'a transfer', bypassing the ban. I suspect they have been cheating the system, and AA has the evidence, it just depends on whether his boss wants him to reveal it. So yes, it does appear that they are Cheats.

Funny that -I thought the O'Hara contract was so binding that even the court-approved (!) administrator can't cancel it to protect creditors - do we now discover that it can be re-written at any point? Another drum of worms spills out across the Fratton Park lino. Harry will say - 'they're a great club, great fans, he's a great player, I would help if I could but my hands are tied, it's with the guys upstairs, it will be a fantastic occasion, they are a very difficult team to beat, Avram's doing a tremendous job'. Harry will mean - 'feck off, I'm manager of Spurs and I don't care what happens to anyone else, the weaker your excuse for a team is, the happier I am'. And on this occasion, he will be right.

how on earth could they get it to £100M??....Staggering if true. An ambitious new owner would now need to find £100M to clear debt, £10M for the land, £50M for players, £10M for training ground, £100M for a new stadium, £100M for two years wages, so by 2012 they will be overcoming points penalties and bouncing back to the Premier League with a decent squad and a new ground. Cost - £370M though they could cut corners and do it for only £280M? By then the tv money will kick back in, the revenue streams will open up with the bigger capacity and the business will be solvent! Unless of course they fund this amazing turnaround through borrowing....... Alternatively you could just buy a controlling interest in Manchester United. With the money that has already gone through the club it now means they paid approx £175M for a 1-0 win over a bankrupt mid-table championship club - what great value for money!

the arms dealer will only sell back the land when he has £30M in his hand, he's immoral not stupid. As for AA spending weeks deciding who would be the best new owner and after an exhaustive elimination process he decides that the man who he's working for is best? The taxman is watching. Does this mean Storrie will be back soon?.... As Grant was quick to point out the other week, this adversity has kick-started their season and created a siege mentality - they really have created Fortress Fratton.

So they value Tommy Smith the same as Mr Richard Lambert do they? Next stop Deluded Central - mind the widening gap between reality and Fratton. Has AA tried to sell O'Hara yet? Harry won't be pleased, unless he gets a cut. In future if I ever feel low I shall just recall the gem - 'The club hope to raise almost £30 million in player sales' and the world will fill with laughter once again. Not much word from Avram on the mass clearout, maybe he'll be able to rebuild from the lower leagues, I hear he's keen to splash out on local youngsters. (second airing for a top joke!)

Though it doesn't help a sinking ship much, if they have altered rules mid season the Prem has dropped a clanger. Palace could have been saved by that one player sale that was mid-completion when the rug was pulled. We could have taken a million for Rasiak or Saga or both, if given the opportunity, and we could have stumbled on. Other clubs have been left to rot with no special favours. So if they give any club assistance by bending rules it shows clearly that the Premier League is no longer related to the Football League and is run under a different set of values. And before any dim person points out that they are two different competitions, yes we know that, but there must be continuity or you might as well have teams promoted from the F1 constructor's championship or the national ping pong alliance to the Premier League - the game must be the same if you have relegation and promotion between them. If this half-baked approach continues the FA should seek clarity from the two different competitions and see if they can still work together. If not, the Prem can break away and people can pay to view Wigan v Stoke for the rest of their lives with no relegation from this 'elite'. If the big three want to breakaway for more cash let them - they can play each other ten times a year and call it a season. There comes a time when a line has to be drawn. It's time to bring some discipline and continuity back into the four divisions - adjoining divisions with very different rules doesn't work.

this sounds like the last resort of a desperate business. Knockdown prices for players new owners can't use for five months? Buy a car now, loan in to a lunatic for 20,000 miles, then it's all yours!... I don't see many players there I would gamble more than £250K on. This is short termism in it's crudest and most damaging form - as a business plan it's right up there with chucking future revenue down a black hole. AA is certainly working to an unusual agenda. And on that one I loved the blue few forum comment about how AA was doing nothing at all for the fans, he was just helping creditors.....funny that.

Bale crosses to Crouch, there's some people in caravans, they think the season's all over....it is now!

Sadly I fear Pompey won't be implicated in the drugs trade, their controllers are too busy maiming children with landmines, selling machine guns to terrorists and laundering filthy cash. There are only so many days in the week and your core businesses have to take priority. It would be funny though if the little Fratton gang's offences escalated sharply from tax evasion to drug running. Have we sorted that extradition treaty with Hayling yet?

Sorry Rebel you are all over the place mate - Storrie said the squad value was about £38M, and he should know as he's been fecking up football clubs for two decades. or was that just the figure he came up with when working out his percentage?...... And as for Leslau - a fortune worth £200M? - is he looking to lose all of it in one hit? - they need a billionaire not a millionaire.

it seems odd that there hasn't been news of an enquiry or defence for these offences. Has the club just confirmed that things have been done illegally, or has AA brought it to the Prem's attention and quietly accepted the punishment? The News is pretending it hasn't happened at all. Odd. Most clubs would have put out a pr defence campaign of some sort. If they have been fined £1M it's progress - it means that at last they have officially been found guilty of cheating.