OldNick

Bad management when you get to the final and fail to win with the team you have at your disposal. It can happen to everyone of course

I do find it disrespectful for the club not to answer calls, but I suppose that is consistent to AL

runners up in the cup to mighty Wigan, I don't think that points to good management

Frannie nice bloke but don't ask him to pass the book to anyone as it will end up 20feet from the intended recipient or deep into the crowd

he won the league after nearly f###### it up. With the resources there for him he should have won more and at a canter. Utd won the league the season after with probably their worst side for decades (not since of course) As I said if he becomes Saints manager then I want him to do well, but I'm not sure of his record bringing young players through and using sparse resources

:blush:I do hope I'm wrong but I don't believe Mancini to be that good. He was lucky to win the league with Man City even with a squad that Wigley would have take. To European glory

The fannying about deciding the manager gives time for agents/clubs to work away at the players.Reed said hisself the players don't know who is coming in and they understandably are unsettled. Dejan would be the biggest loss to our team of all the players rumoured to be off. Give him the captains armband and make him feel most wanted, to lose the backbone of the side is disasterous i(if true). It is going to be bad enough losing the goal scoring talisman, to find a replacement for one of the best CB's in the PL is a massive problem.Iassume it is. Liverpool or Spurs who he is angling for. Personally I would make him stay,for at least this season and show the balls to keep him to his contract

Cynical but it seems to me that they were only going to follow their list of managers whoever came forward.

Have you 2 history? Vitriol is never very pleasant, there again we can all mix it if we want

Blackmore was very sympathetic to Pompey and failed to point out how much they had taken from HMRC and all the others.

at present they can't. By the 2nd quarter of the 21st century there will be more Spanish speaking Americans than English. In turn it is not too unreal to believe that there will be a Spanish speaking President if the USA within most of the younger posters lifetimes on here. The balance will change and then we may not so easily hold on to the. Islands with force as the US turns it's head to appeasing the South Americas. It's a waiting game. IMO

why specifically 16-17 year olds?

first thing I thought when reading it as well lol. Climbing walls in Dorset? I thought the prison there was a ship off Portland, there again we could arrange a few haver sacks loaded with concrete for them to to take a dip in

the bit about Osvaldo was not the most diplomatic, and best not said IMO

me patronising , moi .I dont think so. I do hope your G/F is as easy as me

don't forget that blonde runner who is a saints fan when it suits him, normally a Man U fan.

When it said 24 to be filmed I thought it was about Pompeys fan base

May as well be Inter as Bompey are that much ahead in their status and standing

if you believe the club want to keep him you say 50m or better still he's not for sale. To negotiate the price would point to the fact they do want to sell. Your cheap jibe that I would be dealing in drugs may be mildly amusing to some but not me. AL is fast becoming damaged goods, and his return may be your idea of good news but to me part of him has died as a Saints star. If you think either of them getting an injury or having poor performances in the WC is not a bad thing for their value then I wish I came across a few punters like yourself. Yeah I'm sure there is insurance but I very much doubt it is anywhere near the price we have been asking Liverpool or Man UU

Dimbo or not, after spending nearly 40 years dealing I do know the ins and outs of negotiation. If the club really dont want to sell they may as well say 50m and it is game over. The club want to do the business and are just trying to get the best money, period. A player getting injured or having a bad WC is a risk and so we have to weight that up whether we think the value will improve o other clubs come in. You may think that it does not matter either way, but once you have decided to sell the goods are never quite the same again.

of course they do, if ether gets injured the value drops. As for having a **** WC the Liverpool may cool on him. At present the lure of 20m for AL seems pretty high, and 30m even more

it goes both ways, if AL gets an injury or a bad WC his value will drop. Take the money and move on. Watching LS last night hardly made him priceless, and watching AL walking wround against Peru hardly made him look great, of course that may be the plan

it would depend on the wording of the contract. Surely if it says they are to get 25% of a future transfer fee, then thats all they will get, the add ons are extras. It must be like the image rights players use to avoid tax

I wonder if the add ons are not subject to the 25% and so we may accept a lower fee but the add ons come later and not having the deduction