Scummer

They haven't sold out.

Wife's sister.

MLT would know Dowie well. I knew him for a while when he played for us (went out with his sister in law), he's a decent bloke and I'd love to see him here. He'd be one of the more realistic targets.

London is North East of Southampton.

But we aren't Nike.

Yeah, so he was going to front up £500k. But they'd have then needed to lay their hands on another £10M or so in the next couple of weeks. Was he going to loan it to the others while they sold their houses etc?

What a pointless punishment to give Palace. Has absolutely no impact, not even on which position they finished. And a £20k fine, with £15k suspended. What a joke.

I wonder how the MJ lot were planning to pay up if most of their assets weren't liquid? We aren't exactly in a position where we can wait a few months for them to free up their funds.

It's ok, we are rich now. Things like that don't matter any more.

Phil, fair play to you for fighting MJ's corner, but a couple of things. From where I'm sitting, Pinnacle were hardly in the public eye at all. You have been going to great lengths to downplay Jackson's involvement. Yet if that's the case, why is he plastered all over the paper and giving interviews? Also, you kept saying Green was the good guy who was untarnished by what had gone before. But wasn't he a director in the Trican/Barry the Briefcase affair? Didn't that show a serious error of judgement? I'm not trying to have a go, you seem like a decent bloke. These are just a few questions/niggles I have with the affair.

I think it looks horrible. I like the current badge, but if we were going to change we may as well just adopt the Southampton City crest.

That was the copyright issue. There was no copyright on the old badge, so anyone could use it. The 'new' badge, with different football, was brought in to regain control of the copyright. I actually preferred the old one.

There's already a copyright on the badge. I'd have thought that will simply transfer to the new owners.

Yeah, it seems the money they've paid is just a deposit. Fry has taken the company off the market while they get the paperwork done. Also, don't think the £500,000 has been confirmed has it? There's a few things they want to keep quiet, the total price they are paying and who 'they' are as well.

Naughty Pancake.

If this goes through, a few people will have to apologise for doubting Pinnacle. It was only a couple of days ago that supporters of another bid were claiming Pinnacle had walked, and slagging them off for being amateurs.

That's already been announced: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8070291.stm

Good news. Cue the snipes from the other consortia.

I pointed that out ages ago, post 184. I figured MB's machine gun pic was him admitting to being part of the wind-up.

By the way, Roger Salvetti works for Biscoes, a Portsmouth law firm and official partner of Portsmouth FC. It's blatantly a wind-up.

606 seems to be even more full of rubbish than this site, and that's saying something. Can't see any reason for an insurance company would buy a football club.

Because there's nothing actually in it. Just a load of idiots making poor jokes.

Agreed. It's a pretty poor thread. Lock it until something actually happens.

Stop making racist comments about the Swiss please. You'll upset them and they'll pull out.

They run a free bus from Southampton Central to the ground, it's not exactly arduous. A station would have cost a fortune.