Pompey - on the brink??

[Mr Angry]

Portsmouth's players are demanding a meeting with the new owner having not been paid this month.

Despite assurances that he was pumping £50M into the club, the players discovered that they hadn't been paid only when they checked their bank accounts - nothing had been said by the club beforehand.

This is a major sign that they are in serious, serious trouble.

But hey, they won the FA Cup a couple of seasons ago.

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payroll error

[Geekins]

payroll error

Shouldn't that be 'payroll error'? Something is happening behind this club and i just hope it comes out and screws pompey over!

[Super_horns]

Not good news for them and maybe not for us if they enter administration as we are due money with the sale of Tommy Smith/Mike Williamson (went on striker because he wanted to join them so much...)

[Dirk Gently]

Not good news for them and maybe not for us if they enter administration as we are due money with the sale of Tommy Smith/Mike Williamson (went on striker because he wanted to join them so much...)

Not an issue at all - the Football Creditors' Rule says that all "football debts" must be paid at 100p in the pound before all other creditors get anything (including the taxman). That's why HMRC refuses to agree to CVAs when clubs go into administration.

[Super_horns]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Big Ern]

It would give me great delight to see Portsmouts go into administration. I truely hate the scummy little club and thier scummy supporters

[Uke]

It would give me great delight to see Portsmouts go into administration. I truely hate the scummy little club and thier scummy supporters

I know there's a degree of fishing here, but I'll bite.

Pompey may well be a scummy club with scummy supporters, but any business/club going into liquidation should be a warning for others that it can happen to them and its not the time for gloating. Beating Pompey 6-0 would be the time for that!

The unskilled employees who work as secretaries, groundsmen, catering staff, etc. will no doubt relish your views on them having to find new wages, especially since if a company goes broke they will get no redundancy payments.

Funny how when Harry leaves a club it all falls to pieces isn't it?

Bournemouth
Southampton
Pompey
West Ham

Presumably his tight fiscal policies and executive ensure that he holds the club together without any self interests

[buzzby]

Al Fahim has now been taken into hospital in Dubai.

Reports on SSN

[TFF]

Sulaiman Al Fahim has been taken to hospital in Dubai - and photographs of him in hospital have been posted on the internet.
Pompey's new owner was admitted to hospital late last night and is currently undergoing tests.

The Arabian Business website released a series of photographs of Al Fahim being treated by medical staff.

Hospital sources have confirmed Fahim is being treated there but would not say what for.

Some of the photographs show the Pompey chairman sleeping alone in what looks like an emergency room - but he is not attached to any drips.

Another photograph shows the medical tag attached to his hand, with his name, date of birth and reference number.

He returned to Dubai on Monday night and he was last seen in public at the CEO Middle East Awards in Dubai on Monday evening.

Anil Bhoyrul, editor of arabianbusiness.com, said: 'I spoke to Sulaiman yesterday and he seemed perfectly fine.

'I also met with him with on Monday and there was no suggestion he was going into hospital.

'I was supposed to be meeting him for lunch tomorrow, so this has definitely happened out of the blue.'

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/frattonlate ... 5698502.jp

Hart attack?

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[Deathy]

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[Deathy]

It would give me great delight to see Portsmouts go into administration. I truely hate the scummy little club and thier scummy supporters

I know there's a degree of fishing here, but I'll bite.

Pompey may well be a scummy club with scummy supporters, but any business/club going into liquidation should be a warning for others that it can happen to them and its not the time for gloating. Beating Pompey 6-0 would be the time for that!

The unskilled employees who work as secretaries, groundsmen, catering staff, etc. will no doubt relish your views on them having to find new wages, especially since if a company goes broke they will get no redundancy payments.

Funny how when Harry leaves a club it all falls to pieces isn't it?

Bournemouth
Southampton
Pompey
West Ham

Presumably his tight fiscal policies and executive ensure that he holds the club together without any self interests

Harry Redknapp is a manager, not an exec, not a chairman, not in control of the cash... If he can sweet talk a board member into giving him money for players and paying high wages, then he's doing his job and he's doing it well.

I don't see how anyone can lay any blame at Rednapp's feet. It's the boards that should have a budget and stick to it.

[Dirk Gently]

.....Funny how when Harry leaves a club it all falls to pieces isn't it?

Bournemouth
Southampton
Pompey
West Ham

Presumably his tight fiscal policies and executive ensure that he holds the club together without any self interests

In fact, just the opposite. He works in short-term only, wheeler-dealing all the time and signing players on what are ludicrous levels for the club concerned.

Then when he sees it'll all shortly about to come crashing down he moves elsewhere and leaves someone else to pick up the pieces and make the hard decisions.

[TFF]

Harry Redknapp is a manager, not an exec, not a chairman, not in control of the cash... If he can sweet talk a board member into giving him money for players and paying high wages, then he's doing his job and he's doing it well.

I don't see how anyone can lay any blame at Rednapp's feet. It's the boards that should have a budget and stick to it.

You'd be pleased if Coppell had done the same to us?

[Uke]

.....Funny how when Harry leaves a club it all falls to pieces isn't it?

Bournemouth
Southampton
Pompey
West Ham

Presumably his tight fiscal policies and executive ensure that he holds the club together without any self interests

In fact, just the opposite. He works in short-term only, wheeler-dealing all the time and signing players on what are ludicrous levels for the club concerned.

Then when he sees it'll all shortly about to come crashing down he moves elsewhere and leaves someone else to pick up the pieces and make the hard decisions.

Whoosh

Redknapp is a Venables for the 21st Century

Now explain that to Jay

[soggy biscuit]

Harry Redknapp is a manager, not an exec, not a chairman, not in control of the cash... If he can sweet talk a board member into giving him money for players and paying high wages, then he's doing his job and he's doing it well.

Anyone who is in a position of spending a companies money has certain reponssibilities, to claim that they don't is nothing short of f***ing stupid.

I genuinely hope you are never in position where you get to spend a companies money, something tells me you won't be though.

[Deathy]

Harry Redknapp is a manager, not an exec, not a chairman, not in control of the cash... If he can sweet talk a board member into giving him money for players and paying high wages, then he's doing his job and he's doing it well.

I don't see how anyone can lay any blame at Rednapp's feet. It's the boards that should have a budget and stick to it.

You'd be pleased if Coppell had done the same to us?

I wouldn't have blamed Coppell. I would have asked questions of our board.

[Deathy]

Harry Redknapp is a manager, not an exec, not a chairman, not in control of the cash... If he can sweet talk a board member into giving him money for players and paying high wages, then he's doing his job and he's doing it well.

Anyone who is in a position of spending a companies money has certain reponssibilities, to claim that they don't is nothing short of f***ing stupid.

I genuinely hope you are never in position where you get to spend a companies money, something tells me you won't be though.

Redknapp can only spend money that he is told he can spend. You can argue he knows the long term risks to the football club if it all went belly up, but at the end of the day, he is a football manager and he has to get results. he also wants to win trophies, and if he is given the silly amounts of money to do so, he will spend it. You have to ask questions of the board and chairman who are responsible for releasing that money!

[Dirk Gently]

Harry Redknapp is a manager, not an exec, not a chairman, not in control of the cash... If he can sweet talk a board member into giving him money for players and paying high wages, then he's doing his job and he's doing it well.

Anyone who is in a position of spending a companies money has certain reponssibilities, to claim that they don't is nothing short of f***ing stupid.

I genuinely hope you are never in position where you get to spend a companies money, something tells me you won't be though.

Redknapp can only spend money that he is told he can spend. You can argue he knows the long term risks to the football club if it all went belly up, but at the end of the day, he is a football manager and he has to get results. he also wants to win trophies, and if he is given the silly amounts of money to do so, he will spend it. You have to ask questions of the board and chairman who are responsible for releasing that money!

"I need this new striker but he'll only join us for £X,000 a week. Do you want success or not?"