Jamie O’Hara is a guest on Sky Sports:
Keys: ‘How are Pompey doing this, Jamie? Youngsters, loan signings…all thrown in together.’
O’Hara: ‘Yeah, I dunno. I’ve actually never met one of our subs today’.
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Fuck sake, I had the draw in this one. Arsenal are incredibly brittle mentally.
[/quote] :lol: Delighted,i bet your fat hole was jiggling with joy when you thought you were in the money only for Wigan to grab the winner! 
Disgusting image. It was only a momentary feeling of regret given I’m very affluent.
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Nathan Delfouneso scored his first league goal today. The winner too. We missed a shitload of chances including a penalty. Should have had two more penalties too. Glasgow Celtic would have taken a case to the European Court of Human Rights if they had of got the same raw deals as we have been getting. No conspiracy just shite referees.
Also John Carew has hit 16 goals and has passed Gabby out in the score charts. A fair achievement as he was either injured, uninterested and behind Emile Heskey in the pecking order for the most of the season. He always finishes the season strong and I reckon we should keep him for another couple of years. His goal ratio is pretty impressive in a Villa shirt. Both Carew and Gabby have had their highest scoring seasons this year.
O’Neill out by the way.
Arsenal are actually aware that association football games last 90 minutes (except in the case on Man Utd of course) aren’t they? Can someone check with them?
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What a shit post and how typical of you.
Fitzy, i speak for just about everyone here when i say fuck off and plague another forum.
You are not wanted here.
Portsmouth - owe even more than was thought. Millions owed to agents
'Arry’s fingerprints have to be all over this!
Soccernet can reveal that Portsmouth’s actual level of debt is far worse than reported, with £119 million owed to various creditors - including astonishing amounts to agents.
Portsmouth administrator Andrew Andronikou has shown Soccernet the official and highly contentious figures, after working through the night on a full financial report to be made public later on Tuesday.
The relegated club owe £105 million to numerous creditors, secured and unsecured, plus there is an outstanding £14 million due on three transfers - those of Sulley Muntari, Glen Johnson and Jermain Defoe - to a series of money lenders.
Of the £105 million debt, £9 million is owed to 15 agents. In one deal alone, an agent is owed £2.3 million.
The breakdown includes: £90 million owed to unsecured creditors - of which £38 million is due to three previous owners in the form of loans, £5 million to trade creditors, £9 million to agents. There is also £1 million owed on hire purchase. A sum of £14 million which is “off the balance sheet” because it relates to players.
There is also £14 million owed to secured creditors, which is the last owner, Balram Chainrai, in the form of loans.
Soccernet spoke to Andronikou after his all night vigil finalising the figures for the Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) to take the club out of administration. The creditors, however, would still have to accept any offer for their debt from a prospective buyer. Without 75% of creditors agreeing to any proposed deal there can be no CVA.
It is almost certain that they taxman, who is owed a sizeable amount, would attempt to block any offer which would only leave them with a fraction of what they are owed.
“I do not believe that the figures will come as a surprise to anyone who has been interested in buying the club, when they do due diligence it is there for them to see,” Andronikou told Soccernet. "So, for that reason, it is not unexpected, although, of course, the figures are vastly different from what has been reported.
"The size of the debt involved won’t scare off potential buyers, far from it. We now have a business plan in place that is a projected target over the next three to five years to pay back the creditors, albeit with Xp in the pound. The creditors will get a percentage of their debts back over a number of years, rather than all in one go.
“You have also got to remember that £40 million of the debt involves the old shareholders, the previous owners. The shareholders are owed that amount of money because they put loans into the club, not their own money, it was all built on their loans.”
Andronikou also revealed to the extent of the money owed to agents, with super-agent Pini Zahavi one of the biggest creditors according to the accounts.
“There are agents and scouts owed over £9 million,” Andronikou confirmed. "There are agents such as Pini Zahavi, who is owed £2 million, but there is one agent who is owed £2.3 million for just one deal alone, the transfer of [Lassana] Diarra, it is staggering.
“There must be something like 15 agents owed money, which illustrates how the club were buying and selling so many big name players.”
An exhausted Andronikou added: “It has been a very tiring job, working through the night, but it needed to be done.”
Pompey need to move out of administration to have any chance of winning an appeal to play in the Europa League next season, and also to finalise takeover talks.
“We are no nearer to a buyer than we have been for the past two months.” Andronikou said. “Will one be in place for the Cup final? Who knows? Rob Lloyd seems keen to make a formal offer, but he has yet to do so, and there is one major sporting franchise group who approached me again the day after we won the semi-final. There are a few fishing around.”
Wouldn’t surprise me to see the same article being written about Spurs in 3 or 4 years time. How Harry Redknapp has a history of this sort of stuff and continues to get away with it is beyond me. It has to be more than a coincidence.
Harry gets results.
Redknapp is up in court at the moment with Peter Storrie and Willie McKay for tax evasion around the signing of Amdy Faye.
Willie McKay is also Pascal Chimbonda’s agent. Chimbonda made a pretty bizarre return to Tottenham you may recall last season for a few months. Bizarre in the fact that Tottenham were overstocked with full backs at the time. Chimbonda then made a quick transfer to Blackburn, managed by Sam Allardyce of course… McKay was given a fine over the transfer of Benjani to Portsmouth managed by Harry Redknapp also…
kind of similar to what happened at home- players that have only played 5 or 6 games in their careers used to get transferred for millions between clubs a number of times- a player would join roma milan & inter over the course of 3 seasons for a shitload of money- it was basically doing an anglo on it & creative accounting- no surprise that even financial irregualrity is classier in Italian football
If memory serves me correctly Agnew covered this in Forza Italia, some farcial transfers to be fair.
The club who got 50m for Carrick and Berbatov and kept a straight face about it won’t have the wool pulled over their eyes when it comes to finances.
We all know the big nosed ones and their true love.
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Killing Palestinians?
Would say they paid over the odds for all the following - Bent, Palacios, Hutton, Pavlychenko, Bently, Kaboul (twice), Defoe (the second time), Bassong, Corluka (who I think was bought so Modric had someone to talk to) and Bale to a lesser extent.
Some amount of players traded between Spurs and Pompey over the past 18 months - Defoe, Crouch, Kranjcar, O’Hara, Mendes and I’m sure there’s plenty more.
Would take your point in one sense but Kaboul/Defoe re-signing apart none of these were Arry signings. And Palacious is worth a lot more than the 12m they paid for him now so is Bale.
Of that list the only real outrageous one was the 16m for Bentley and the 8m for Hutton. British international players tend to be overpriced and Bentley was in the England team when teh Yids signed him.
You counter your list with 2.5m for Niko Kranjar which is akin to robbing Pompey for me !
I was picking up your point when you said they wouldn’t have the wool pulled over their eyes and was pointing cases where they had. Would think the €16m they paid for Bent at the time was OTT as well seeing as Barca had bought around the same time for about 5m less.
They got a deal with Kranjar alright - wouldn’t dispute that!
Those Portsmouth figures revealed that Tottenham are to get a million pounds for Begovic being transferred from Portsmouth to Stoke, despite the keeper never having been on Spurs books.
Some seriously dodgy stuff going on there.