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they also introduced rules on clubs having to file accounts to avoid penalties and embargoes. Pompey have historically steered clear of that whole side of things, and I certainly don't see AA committing all his stunts to paper where people can analyse it. I guess that unlike the high court, the FL weren't impressed with the grubby shoebox of reciepts.

any of you been back to the site of the Dell recently? I went the other week as I was nearby and realised that it was my first time there since the Arsenal game. It was great walking through the archway, down what would have been the Milton terrace and onto the pitch, looking left and right remembering the stands. Worth a trip if you haven't been, and the impression of hundreds of football boots on the concrete around the grassed area is a really clever touch. I enjoyed the experience, it wasn't sad, just nostalgic in a good way, there can't be many housing estates that hold such great memories - go have a walk down memory lane. This is in contrast to the first time I went past the old Goldstone ground and saw Dixons and SofaWorld - there's something vulgar about desecrating a sports ground for cheap toasters and buy now pay in 2014 furnishings.

FL can't be impressed by a CVA that sneaked through the court but has failed on the two key areas before it even gets to them - income and wage reduction. Tis unworkable I tell you! Then again if you were stupid enough to vote for it you deserve to get 4p in the pound less expenses. I think what has really struck a nerve down the road is that we are in talks with a former physio to become our next manager yet he still has a better CV than Cotterill. And if the length of the thread really rankles, stop extending it by posting little rants.

All aboard!! The train crash is back on and AA is getting up some steam!! 'Gone are the days when extraordinary pay packets put this club in financial trouble. 'Nowadays we are looking at a budget of £13-15m this season and around £10m for next season if we retain our Championship status. 'However, in the cases of Kitson and Lawrence, we have had to push the boat out a little. 'Their wages are £19,000s and £20,000s but it is something we are comfortable with. The madness continues. They are still outbidding some Prem clubs like Blackpool, Wolves and Wigan. There has been a very half-hearted attempt at reducing wages, they have maybe six players who are earning Prem figures, the business forecasts are now flawed, the CVA is unworkable, the attempt to return to the Prem on someone else's money continues.... I think Lampitt and the FL has some questions to answer, not a good announcement for AA to make in the build up to a big meeting - by paying these huge amounts it's obvious they intend to launch a promotion bid, this isn't a club stabilising - without the income or new investment it looks a little bit like cheating.

I think it was Leeds. I did the photos, four in a frame, it was presented to her on the programme. City Photographic gave us a frame and the artwork in the corner was done by one of Dave Puckett's brothers.....Julian I think. That must have been one of the earliest mascots before the Junior Saints started doing it regularly, and before big clubs started charging massive amounts. Apart from that, I don't remember it!

they would do better avoiding future transfer windows, it sounds like chaos. How can Lampitt not be capable of completing a simple transfer? And how can he allow third parties to make phantom bids on behalf of the business he's meant to be running? And the one we've been asking for a while - Why is a company in administration that appears to be trading insolvently, looking to increase it's overheads? You knew where you were with Storrie, he might have paid three times the commercial value for players signed under odd circumstances and he made tax 'errors', but at least he grasped the concept of time.

Gemmel, how very polite of you to refer to Storrie's tax 'issues' as errors! You see the best in everyone. Does that plan mean Chanrai will be able to ignore the CVA debt under a toothless agreement post-liquidation, or is the FL likely to impose all manner of conditions to accompany the golden share transfer? I'm not sure that AA's little club will be 'out of their clutches' for a while, nice language to use about a governing body that is historically happy to impose penalties as it makes them up. He needs to stop prodding the beast with a stick.

presumably the mistake on timing saves the league having to address the embargo-breaking issue with regard to this particular player - how this affects the Wilson and Smith deals we have yet to find out. one might suggest that AA is looking a little foolish today. He's attacking the authorities that have the power to cause him great grief. He's admitted that they have signed a player without doing a medical - an idiotic thing to do. He's also ignorant of the rules over loans. He needs to stick to his specialist areas, fooling judges, dancing to Chanrai's clicking fingers, signing autographs, and shafting charities.

it seems that the self-proclaimed owner wants his pound back, plus an ironic 20p in every pound on top. He must love the club to be helping it that much.

hello AA, what's that ,you want to park in the HMRC pay and display for the match?..... No problem, just park in a marked bay and put your £30M in the machine.

ssshhhhhhhh...... as it's so quiet at the moment I can just hear the sound of a CVA remaining unpaid..... Let's get our own little 'issue' sorted, then we'll be back, so don't get liquidated while we're gone! I'd hate to miss it.

I've heard some funny stuff on here but 'Puncheon played well yesterday'?...... Yeah, everyone was saying that as they left the ground....that and the fact that Lambert looked really sharp and that Wilkins is a tactical genius.

good to see the taxman chasing individuals who no fault of their own could owe £1,400. Among those will be some Pompey creditors who have just been robbed by the CVA - I hope the 4p in the pound less expenses is enough to pay off the taxman. And on tax, interesting to see that a football club seems to have been laundering money. Who'd have thought it possible.

frustrating! - ghosts past one of their defenders for fun and the next minute he nearly kills a steward with a shot. In fact the nearest he got to the goal was with a cross. The worst effort was when Lambert gently rolled the ball back to him on a velvet cushion with a handwritten invitation to bury it. He missed the target again but unlike the shot that hit the roof of the stand the other week he kept this one below row T, so I guess he's improving... I don't know why he doesn't practice in the week, it would seem a good idea as football must be his main source of income, for the moment.

I'm in the Northam and today I will refuse to clap anything at all!! Mainly because my arm is in a sling after I dislocated my effing collar bone in the week. I'd like to say it was from punching the air too much at the Swindon game, but it wasn't. So my fellow negative monkeys who upset sensitive and easily distracted players with irrelelvant chants, feel free to say hello to the man with the arm sling! Unless you are 12 and an extra from Football Factory, then don't bother.

since when did we start shopping at Lidl? He would be great for a club under an embargo with no cash, but that's not the South Coast Team, that's the next one along. I'm sure he's a top bloke and he's done a great job creating a siege mentality somewhere that was under siege. But this one is a VERY different job and experience is key. Would be a little underwhelmed by an appiontment that is a step down from Pardew, but as I pointed out in the heat of the sh(tstorm, everything will be judged by the table in May so whoever it is, just get results.

The ban is a little ambitious. A spat with the Sun is unwise. The Sun confirming us as the only club on the south coast is most welcome. The cartoons were funny. The subbuteo is nearly funny. The Sun banging on about it is becoming boring, but then again they are aiming at a very low IQ audience. All publicity is good publicity.....as Gary Glitter, John Leslie and Michael Barrymore used to say.

I think the whole Utaka wage denial was about glossing over the huge percentage of his salary that comes in add ons. To generate the wagebill they had he is likely to be on the basic that Storrie and Redknapp freely discussed, plus at least the same again in image rights or offshore payments, as was and still is the Pompey way - so £80K seems quite likely for a player they rated as a new Diarra/Henry/Eto. Their wagebill must be huge for a Championship club - they would have been better off giving Utaka away with two million pounds to the club who took him in Jan. Or there could have been a 'Redknapp' deal to be done there........ So there are half a dozen players now eating up the budget for the entire squad. Luckily they have a young man who can borrow money against the 'stadium' to buy them. That'll be about four people using Fratton as security now.

so have they 'done' a deal that will fall apart when the FL remind them they have an embargo, or have they worked their way around it? Wouldn't surprise me if they have just ignored it and will claim a misunderstanding/loss of letter etc. Bearing in mind the league is also keeping an eye on their overheads so they don't get themselves into trouble again, the fact that the deal increases their wagebill won't make it look too clever. Signing Kanu after redefining him as a free agent or bringing in low-paid loan players to fill the squad I can accept, but signing two players from the Prem on big wages? Forget the Wilson element, according to the CVA plan that should have been simply a sale to raise money, not a swap deal that increases overheads. Have they now conned the FL as well? If they pull this one off you have to admire their cheek.

so to clarify the state of the business (using the term in its loosest sense) Wilson plus Smith has generated approx £2.5M gross, which equals maybe £1.5M in real terms (if Chanrai doesn't trouser it). With their Prem contracts Kitson and Lawrence must be on more money than the two departees so I would imagine they have increased their overheads despite offloading youngsters as well. How they can sign players when they are not allowed to sign players is a whole different matter for the FL to address and explain. The firesale has generated maybe half of their minimum target required to service the CVA, and the wages are still way over what they need to be. As a performance on CVA Part I - I think AA gets 2 out of 10. This is the next crunch time, how do they pay the wages and the CVA until January? Time for the Bank of Chanrai to open it's doors again.

news? I thought it was a lone rumour on a pompey forum? Now if that came to pass there would be questions asked. They are just upset that the goal machine Smith could be lost. I would guess that Chanrai will wait for any incoming cheques to clear before he does too much.

our strength last year was (eventually) squad depth - it doesn't have to be like Chelsea and Man City where you try to buy the two best in that position in the world, but all first teams get ravaged by injury and suspension, or even loss of form. When this happens, how good will poor plucky pompey look then? I see 'special' assistance being demanded before Christmas because the south coast's forgotten team can't field the sort of players that they'd like to. A surprised Cotterill will say his hands are tied, it's impossible, etc - if only the stunning Smith and Nugent goal machine was firing on all cylinders. Not sure the FL will be as generous as the Prem. More predictable soap opera to come.

calm down everyone, I was disappointed by the sacking but the insane ranting on here has annoyed me more than the decision, boycotts, chants, hanging from a lampost?? Idiotic. I saw Spurs this week sweep majestically into the Champions Lge proper, their fans were singing of eternal support - a few days later they were booing the players off like the fickle yobs they are. Win together, lose together? Only when it suits them. Managers and players come and go, you abuse them one week and adore them the next - so let's have a reality check on history for those spouting crap - Hoddle has failed everywhere since The Dell - having him back would have changed nothing - let's bury that stupid fantasy once and for all. Strachan was great for a short time for us, but his record pre and post-Saints is very average. Pearson was great in a crisis, engineered a great escape and may develop into a very good manager, but he's not Alex Ferguson so we don't know what would have happened then. Burley had a great record, but he failed here. Redknapp is the man to get you out of a relegation crisis by wheeler-dealing....yeah, right. For all we know Wotte could turn into Mourinho with some money but we will never know so let's not guess at the version of imaginary history we would like to fit our arguments. Pardew has a pretty good record with us, okay at West Ham, horrendous at Charlton - we have no idea how the next six games would go let alone the season. And most importantly Rupert Lowe's main aim was to make money for Rupert Lowe. Nicola Cortese' main aim is to honour his best mates' dying wish and to take us back to the Prem - Now the way he does that may be ruthless and ill-judged, his timing may be woeful, he may make mistakes - BUT unlike Lowe he wants the same end result that we do, success for Saints - this decision today will be judged by the table in May, nothing else. So chill, let's see what he has up his sleeve before getting all ranty, if he has nothing up his sleeve then we can rant.

after a few years watching football nothing surprises you so it's not a shock, just slightly odd timing. I'll reserve judgement until we see what the plan is, Cortese's structure is work in progress, let's see what he has in store and if it's crazy, let's go ape then. However if Cortese's masterplan is amazing then let's just thank Pardew for his part in turning the club around when we were in crisis and being part of the rebuilding process, and then look forwards. So I'll wait for more information before making a judgement.

about as long as he lasted on Horton Heath industrial estate. Cotterill made it clear that of the three players involved needing to agree personal terms for this deal to work, one was close, and the other two were still haggling - which sounds like 0 out of 3 - a far from done deal. Presumably one of the greedy incoming wants them to break the already ludicrous wage limit. This will be a test of AA's resolve.....Not. They will never have to pay the terms as the Prem or the FA will have to cover it as a football debt should his boss liquidate the business, so AA can agree any terms they demand with no intention of honouring them. Oh well, tonight it looks like our own eternal pessimist Nick may be drifting back into 'wrong' again, we shall see how the table looks in a few months, the jury is still out but all 12 are shaking their heads and doing that 'knife across throat' action...