Danbert

Some of the comments on that article: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/birch-we-can-t-rush-exit-from-administration-1-3936454 are quite amusing, like the bloke who thinks Futacs isn't good enough for them, the poor deluded idiot who has renewed his season ticket and the chap wondering why they can't loan out their high earners. What's really telling though is that Birch has the time to do yet another interview with The News and that absolutely nothing has happened. Clearly the only option left to him is to make desperate and unrealistic come and get 'em pleas via the media in the hope of offloading some of the dross - I expect he spends the rest of his working day down the pub.

You really are mad - that is so obviously a genuine photo.

You conveniently ignore the fact that a Communist state is ipso facto a form of dictatorship and that, therefore, the abuse of power while not inevitable is likely. Socialism is different. I find it incredibly irritating when British people talk about socialists spending other people's money and always bankrupting the state. America has been bankrupted by the right - and them alone. Denmark has had an ingrained socialist system, despite the changing complexion of various governments, for 50 years and is the most solvent country that doesn't rely on natural resources or dubious tax haven status on God's green earth.

The problem with that sort of argument is wage structure - we are clearly looking at players who will cost a substantial sum of money. They won't be happy if RG is on twice what they are - and that's not something Rickie should be expected to put up with either IMHO.

If he gets it back without a CVA there'll be a failed CVA and exiting administration without a CVA to contend with - both attracting significant points penalties and the League won't have a fig leaf to hide behind. In this case they'd be, effectively, sent straight down to League 2. Given which you've got to wonder both whether the club's reputation might make it so hard to attract players of any sort of caliber whatsoever and the fans would get so hacked off with the whole thing that the club would fall out of the league altogether...

I think you're bang on the money there. It's also interesting to me that it's only TBH and Kanu who've been hung out to dry publicly - not Norris for example, he must also be on a fair wack. By singling out TBH and Kanu in public I think Birch is playing the dirty little game of try to pin the blame on the mercenary foreigners - in order to apply extra pressure to them. It'll come back to bite him in the ass though - they'll be even more ****ed off and disinclined to do him a favour now.

To be fair he did say "in the modern game."

What's being a socialist got to do with it?

How weird is that though? Making that sort of investment conditional on the colors of the players' shirts.

What's that all about? Their Chief Executive says that... "by securing this investment we can safeguard the immediate and long-term future of this club." (more at the link) What the f u c k is that supposed to mean? How is changing the colour of their shirts going to make a sod of difference to the long-term future of the club?

Come on you bastards die - the suspense i boring me.

Have you seen him play recently?

F u c k o f f you parasitic hag.

From the Grauniad: "Meanwhile, Vincent Kompany has reportedly let Barcelona know he has no intention of leaving City any time soon. Of course, Barça would be unlikely to be able to afford him anyway. With Spanish banks on the brink of being bust and therefore disinclined to empty money into the pockets of Real Madrid or Barça, Manchester United fancy their chances of competing with that pair for Bayern Munich's versatile 19-year-old David Alaba. Arsenal could gazump the lot of them, but, as ever, it seems that Arsenal are content to know that they can spend big rather than actually do it. So they'll be hoping that Southampton and West Ham don't start getting serious in their pursuit of the Real Madrid reserve striker Joselu, who is also kind of wanted by Arsène Wenger."

Ummm players GOING down

MAKES no sense to me "either".

"NOW (surprise, surprise) he says penalty-shootouts ate a "tragedy" - so is war." Are YOU ****ed?

Oh come on, that's not a serious question is it?

No, I'd never trust anyone who'd worked for the vampire squid.

WHAT wry humour?

GO boil your head

Okay but in the last two seasons we've been the big fish in the small pool nicking the other clubs best players - from the end of next season we can expect to risk losing our best players to bigger clubs as some of them will have made an impact on the Premier League.

Thought he was key to the pretty football we played at the start of the season and a successful start to life in the Championship. I accept he's past it but I think we'll miss him.

What I was thinking was if we're to be run along sustainable lines and if we're successful other clubs will covet our prize assets. If Adkins was linked with a team like Liverpool it'd be a huge step up for him - two years ago the guy was managing S****horpe. If Rickie gets linked with an established Premier League outfit or a club that plays silly money it's going to be his last chance to make that kind of a move. It would be naive to think that we won't become a selling club again.

At Norwich, 31-year-old Grant Holt has put in a transfer request, presumably because this is the only chance he's going to get to make an absolute packet, and Paul Lambert is being linked with moves away, just as Brendan Rogers, incidentally, has recently rejected an approach by Liverpool. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/18/grant-holt-norwich-city-transfer-request