badgerx16

From a Liverpool Echo article last year : "One national newspaper report today detailed the club’s new loan, but club officials say it is a rolling agreement which has been part of their finances for more than four years and was clear to see in their last set of accounts. And they say the interest rates they have agreed with Vibrac will actually save them money compared to the terms offered for renewal by Investec and other banks. Borrowing against TV income for the following year is not uncommon among top flight football clubs, and the club’s latest loan has been approved by the Premier League. Read More http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2011/09/20/everton-fc-insist-new-loan-based-on-next-season-s-premier-league-tv-income-will-not-increase-debt-100252-29456193/#ixzz28M6xxubb"

Nah ! Can't have sensible posts on a conspiracy thread.

Regardless of whether you are concerned by this or not, is there anything you can do to affect it ? The club isn't 'ours', it's at best a business run for the shareholders, at worst a plaything for a swiss banker. All the angst on this thread amounts to nothing, other than to give the phew something to sn!gger about on POL.

If not, what is the point of ITV2 ?

I think back to back promotions skewed the 5-year plan.

Is there any evidence that we have ever been 'bankrolled' by Marcus's estate ? If the family are as financially astute and conservative as is repeatedly stated, then why would they, or the estate, present an open chequebook to a football club ?

Isn't that part of an MP's Job Description ?

If so many opposing managers are supposed to be bemused / annoyed / ****ed off with Pompey's signings, are they complaining to the FL about the situation ?

http://www.republic.org.uk/What%20we%20want/In%20depth/Royal%20finances/index.php The 'Value for Money Monarchy' Myth report sets out the details of the true cost of the monarchy, estimated to be over £200m. Key Findings The estimated total annual cost of the monarchy to taxpayers is £202.4m, around five times the official figure published by the royal household (£38.3m last year). The official figure excludes a number of costs, including round-the-clock security, lavish royal visits and lost revenue from the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall. Civil List expenditure has increased by 94 per cent in real terms over the last two decades. £202.4m is equivalent to 9,560 nurses, 8,200 police officers and more than the total annual Ministry of Defence spending on food. The total cost is also equivalent to a number of high profile government cuts, including cuts to the Sure Start programme. The British monarchy is 112 times as expensive as the Irish president and more than twice as expensive as the French semi-presidential system. Britain's royal family is the most expensive in Europe at more than double the cost of the Dutch monarchy. Taxpayers are kept in the dark about the exact cost of the monarchy, due to the royal household's exemption from the Freedom of Information Act and widespread misunderstanding about the nature of the royal family's finances.

Not so many as the past couple of years of the slash and burn tactics of the ConDems.

Or with the interfering politicos who have to meddle and produce unintelligible regulations and impossible financial restrictions to govern the relationship between the public and private sectors.

Given Portpin's approach to PR and Frattoniser's approach to free speech, they truly are a match made in heaven.

How many Israeli Prime Ministers, etc, were convicted 'terrorists' under the British Palestinian mandate ? What about Archbishop Makarios on Cyprus ? One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

Not sure this is specifically to do with 'privatisation', human errors occur everywhere. The biggest issue I picked up from the radio programme when it was first broadcast is that it is now the Police who determine which tests are carried out on evidence - the example given was of a knife found at a murder scene where the Police asked for a determination of whether the victim's blood was on the blade, without asking for a test to find whether the blade was actually used to cause the lethal blow - they therefore had no evidence that the blade had penetrated the victim. It was strongly suggested that the with the FSS processing the evidence, all tests were available, rather than the new system which it is implied is governed by direct costs of the service to the Police, who consequently pick and choose what they want done. Another issue is that the private firm's staff lack the professional qualifications and experience of the former FSS staff, most of whom have moved on to pastures new rather than being taken on by the private firms.

We end up buying players who want to come - what sort of world class players are battering down the doors of a newly promoted team in preference to established clubs with a chance of European football ? Ramirez, Mayuka, and Yoshida are all establlished internationals, Clyne is a great buy, J-Rod was hardly an unknown - and we must have had our reasons for getting him in so early in the window.

13 Sunderland 5 0 5 14 Liverpool 6 -4 5 15 Wigan 6 -5 5 16 Aston Villa 5 -4 4 17 Southampton 6 -8 3 18 Norwich 6 -8 3 19 Reading 5 -5 2 20 QPR 5 -8 2 No need to panic

We scored 4 in the 2nd half last week............

Which one ?

I wish I could earn enough to be able to afford to pay a clever accountant to save me tax.

Surely not 2336 Name: Marc Jackson on Sep 28, 2012 Comments: If Portpin are rejected I intend to come forth with a bid, funded by a consortium of wealthy businessmen that shall elevate Pompey back to it's rightful place. In fact, I have already started drawing up plans to re-develop the stadium to include a Princess Di memorial and a monkey-chicken petting zoo, bound to attract extra punters.

Mild Lanky with the odd touch of rural Hampshire.

Presumably they would qualify as "the bestest fans in the country" as long as you viewed the Peoples Republic of Portsea as an independent state, ( and if certainly is in a 'state' ).

2216 Name: Bertie Codswallop on Sep 28, 2012 Comments: The PST bid is much better even though they have no money and are a bunch of amateurs.

But from reading the article it may be that Georgie Porgie doesn't agree.

That is just sooooo easy to hijack. How many nutjobs haven't signed up ?