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Jeg kan ikke lige finde linket, men der er særregler for målmænd. Det gjorde Bournemouth også brug af, da de var under embargo...

BBC´s preview påstod for nogle dage siden, at trial-spillerne kunne være med, men det er siden blevet ændret til det modsatte.

Sagen er vist at Appleton var blevet lovet £4m til indkøb. Af hvem ved jeg ikke, for Chainrai kunne næppe finde på at gribe så dybt i lommerne når nu at det er hans hensigt at pengene skal flyde den anden vej. Jeg skal indrømme at jeg ikke engang tror på Chainrais lovning om £1.5m. Det kommer ikke til at ske. Han er fuldstændig ligeglad med det sportslige aspekt, hvilket han jo også har indrømmet. Hvis han overtager klubben så kommer Appleton til at operere med en akademitrup måske tilført 3-4 etablerede spillere på frie transfers. Dette her er for det første udtryk for Appletons frustrationer, men også et forsøg på at holde ryggen fri når/hvis det går galt. Og med den trup som vi pt. har så går det galt. Det siger sig selv. Som det har været nævnt før så har vi ikke noget krav på at være konkurrencedygtige - ej heller i League 1 - men naturligvis så skal en manager se det fra en anden side. Mit bud er i øvrigt at han efter et par heftige nederlag i starten af sæsonen tager sit tøj og går. Og jeg kan godt forstå ham. Hvem gider at være manager i en klub hvor ejeren reelt konsekvent modarbejder enhvert sportsligt aspekt alene for at overføre midler til egen lomme?

Jeg tror, du rammer hovedet så tæt på sømmet som overhovedet muligt med det indlæg!

Chinny vil kun se efter profit mens Appy må balancere mellem at indgyde håb, men også sænke forventningerne. På kort sigt ville det være godt for klubben at stabilisere sig lidt, men problemet er, at selv om de på den korte bane kommer i gang (og her snakker vi ikke direkte det sportslige, for der er ikke gode perspektiver), så vil Chinny stadig være en del af det...

Til sidst et citat fra Steve Claridge, der får smidt en sviner afsted mod de ejere, der måske ville mere end fansene egentlig krævede eller havde behov for (http://soccernet.espn.go…263?cc=5739):

"Over the next few years, David James, Sol Campbell, Jermain Defoe, Peter Crouch, Lassana Diarra, Glen Johnson and Niko Kranjcar were several of the expensive names on the team sheet.

"The ridiculous, strange, unimaginable stupidity of this situation is it wasn´t even called for," Claridge said. "This is not a football club that supporters were demanding you spend that sort of money, were demanding you buy these types of players.

"I was on the train coming home from the FA Cup and I was looking at people celebrating, and I was thinking, ´You´ve got to pay for this somewhere, somehow, and when you do, you are you going to realize this was built on sand, this FA Cup.´"

So it proved."

Appleton indrømmer at det udelukkende er supporterne, som har fået ham til at knokle videre selv om det har været op ad bakke siden årsskiftet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/spo…57536#asset

Efter en heroisk men forgæves indsats er vi ikke overraksende ude af ligacuppen da vi tabte med 0-3 hos Plymouth. Ingen af markspillerne var mere end 18 år.

Nederlag til Pompey var bigtime publicbet, så de glædede ihf mange

...Og så skulle Chainrai have trukket sit bud tilbage. Hvordan stiller det klubben?

"Portsmouth administrator Trevor Birch tells BBC he is unaware of reports Balu Chainrai has withdrawn his bid to buy the club #bbcfootball @BBCSport "

Jep, jeg har lige læst det og i mine øjne er det kun godt nyt. Det efterlader to muligheder:

1) PST (Portsmouth Supporters Trust) overtager.

2) Klubben går konkurs.

Jeg foretrækker selvsagt nr. 1 men spørgsmålet er om de reelt har pengene til det. Dele af deres fremlagte budget er ikke helt realistisk.

Den er her på SkySports:

http://www1.skysports.co…-Pompey-bid

Igen er jeg enig i dit syn på det: det er en god udvikling (på langt sigt :-/ ), men PST har næppe midlerne til at holde klubben kørende...

Portpin/Chainrai statement:

Portpin Ltd regrets to announce that it is withdrawing its bid for Portsmouth Football Club. Unfortunately, our efforts to save the club once more from extinction have hit a wall of rejection and lacking co-operation from the administrator and other interested parties. We are not the ones who have caused the club to collapse and we are not the ones to choose PKF as administrators.

As history has recorded, we sold the club over a year ago after saving it from liquidation and unfortunately found ourselves again fighting to try and save the club from another liquidation. Through this administration process over the last six months we have always had the club´s best interest in mind - unlike many parties who were involved in the process.

We repeatedly encouraged the administrator to find a new, willing and able buyer to take over the club - unfortunately he was unsuccessful in this job and couldn´t find a buyer despite his promises. Later he approached us to be his safety net to save the club as he couldn´t find a buyer. We agreed in the effort to avoid liquidation of the club.

At this moment in time, we feel that:

- the negative criticism and lack of support for our takeover by the fans of this club.

- the fact that the administrators do not want to compromise on their unrealistic fees.

- the fact that suddenly the club has received additional huge football creditors´ claims from former players and management such as Hughes, Brown, Kanu, and Lampitt and more.

- the fact that all the money from the parachute payment which were supposed to carry the club for the next two seasons was spent and committed by the administrator on players´ compromises and fees : total £12million.

- the fact that the Football League has decided to deduct 10 points for no reasonable reason and by its decisions didn´t show any willingness to help in saving this troubled club.

- the fact that the supporters´ trust which we met and we voiced our support for their takeover bid could not raise the funds to satisfy the administrator or the Football League and the loan that was promised them by the council had unrealistic terms.

- the fact that the club did not get any real support from any official they were all very good at creating headlines.

- and finally the last straw yesterday afternoon the manager told the press before the season starts that he is sure of another relegation.

All of these facts have left us in a position that we no longer want to fight this battle, we have zero support to save the club therefore we formally withdraw our bid and our honest attempt at saving the club. We will sleep well knowing we did our utmost to save the club.

We welcome and will assist anyone, including the supporters trust to try and save the club in the coming days.

Her er vist nøglen til det hele (fra Chinnys statement):

- the fact that all the money from the parachute payment which were supposed to carry the club for the next two seasons was spent and committed by the administrator on players´ compromises and fees : total £12million.