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FT: 2-2. Det var en kamp som svingede frem og tilbage, og lige som mod Bournemouth så var der masser af chancer til begge hold. Vi kom foran med 1-0 ved Luke Rodgers, men hjemmeholdet fik udlignet stort set med pausefløjtet. 7 minutter før tid scorede Colchester det, som jeg frygtede blev sejrsmålet, men heldigvis så var Obita på pletten 3 minutter senere.

Sæsonens første sejr lader dermed vente på sig, men vi har spillet over al forventning i de første 2 kampe. Det må godt fortsætte resten af sæsonen ud.

Et par relevante tanker fra en supporter:

I´ve been wondering about the state of PFC, the admin, Chinny and the debt, the charge against Fratton Park, who lent what to whom, how much cash has been put at the clubs disposal, where did all the money go, etc.etc.

If I bought Woolworths and then the place went broke could I demand my money back? Of course not. I´d lose your money. Then why does this not apply in football? How come all our past owners want their money back? £millions went through the books, somebody took it all, and we end up owing, what is it? £130M +. How does that work?

Det korte af det lange er vel, at det aldrig har drejet sig om deciderede investeringer, men derimod lån som et eller andet fjols i klubben - sandsynligvis Peter Storrie og derefter David Lampitt - gladeligt skrev under på. Men i princippet har jeg også svært ved at indse, hvorfor sådanne fejlslåede projekter skal ende med ikke at koste ejerne noget som helst, sådan som f.eks. Chainrai åbenbart havde lagt op til.

PST ude og Chinny tilbage? Ufatteligt hvis det er sandt. Altså ufatteligt at jeg havde afskrevet den mulighed!

Som skrevet før så er Chainrai IKKE en type som bare sådan uden videre afskriver sine penge.

Det har jeg også spurgt mig selv om mange gange:

How do Pompey owe a fortune to Chanrai? He has not put 1p in Pompey. He is said to have lent some money to a person that probably doesn´t exist. Would you lend money to someone you have never seen? The bloke is a con man that has not put any money near our club, yet is trying to kill it. He is a ****t. If I ever see him in Pompey, he will be walking funny after.

Portpins statement:

After many discussions with the related parties, including amongst others, the administrator, the Football League, the PFA, and officials from Portsmouth City Council, Portpin Ltd announces that it has decided to take action in order to avoid the imminent liquidation of Portsmouth FC.

Portpin´s offer will be in much the same form as previously with the club´s current CVA being honoured and football creditors being settled in accordance with current agreements. Under Football League rules, the satisfactory treatment of football creditor obligations is critical to the financial eco-system of all members of the Football League.
Uncertainty

Although Portpin positively viewed take-over interest by the Portsmouth Supporters Trust, we understood from the Administrator that the terms offered by PST were problematic in two areas - the further reduction in football creditor debt to £2million and the uncertainty of the committed capital raised and held in escrow to both fund the take-over of the business and to provide guarantees for the next three years cash flow.

We hope to finalise this transaction in the next two weeks.

Portpin is taking this step to save the club and will look to continue to work with interested parties - including the Portsmouth Supporters Trust - to ensure that the club will have a sound business foundation to enable it to remain financially over the long term.

We hope everybody including the huge fan base will support this saving process.


Det lyder jo meget sødt (violiner og alting), men den nøgne sandhed er jo at Chainrai udelukkende gør det for at beskytte sine egne "interesser".

Vores sidste udvej nu, er at The Football League smækker døren i foran snuden på ham.

http://www.telegraph.co.…o-fray.html

Mht gælden er den overtaget fra Gadaymak, så Chinny har penge ude at svømme. Uden ham var Pompey sandsynligvis blevet lukket i 2010, tror du ikke?

@Saint_Lazlo

Hvis Chainrai overtog gælden fra Gaydamak, hvorfor mener Gaydamak så, at vi også skylder ham penge?

Gaydamak solgte klubben til Al Fahim, der kort efter solgte den til en - måske fiktiv - person kaldet Al Faraj (a.k.a. Al Mirage), som efter endnu kortere tid solgte den videre til Chainrai/Portpin.

Det var Chainrai, der i 2010 satte klubben under Adminstration for at slippe for at betale en kæmpe gæld i omegnen af £130m. Hvis man kigger på, hvordan det er gået siden da, ville det nok have været en fordel hvis klubben lukkede dengang, men det ville han naturligvis aldrig have tilladt.

Jeg tror at du skal droppe enhver tanke om, at Chainrai på noget tidspunkt har foretaget sig noget, som ikke først og fremmest kom ham selv til gavn.

Et par tanker.

Ethvert håb om et godt tilskuersnit og positive vibrationer på FP må være væk nu. Der ville næppe være kommet over 17.000 tilskuere igen til næste hjemmekamp d. 1. september mod Oldham alligevel, men der er ingen tvivl om, at rigtig mange vil holde sig væk til den tid. Især hvis ejerskiftet er blevet en realitet. Folk vil ikke indirekte putte penge i Chainrais lommer. Det er synd for spillerne, som fortjener meget bedre for det som de har vist i de to første kampe, og det bliver virkelig noget af et dilemma for supporterne, men jeg tror som sagt at mange holder sig væk nu.

Det må stå klart nu, at den eneste vej frem går via en konkurs og dermed en lukning af klubben. Jeg ved ikke om supporterne kan forcere det ved at blive væk, og det bliver selvsagt ikke let for dem i givet fald at vælge den vej - altså at yde aktiv dødshjælp til klubben ved at boycotte den. Som det er nu, tror jeg ikke på at PST har nogen rolle at spille. Deres chance kommer først når en phoenix klub skal på banen. Portpin påpeger i deres statement selv, at Trustens bud har mangler på to væsentlige punkter (men nævner ikke hvilke), og det tror jeg også at Birch har ladet dem vide. Personligt synes jeg også selv, at deres bud ikke hænger sammen og er realistisk. Det bruger Chainrai så nu som "undskyldning" for at overtage klubben alligevel, hvilket heller ikke kan komme bag på nogen. Jeg har hele tiden haft på fornemmelsen, at han kun ventede i kulissen.

Hvad angår Appleton, ja så tror jeg at han må se sit budget skrumpe yderligere, sådan som Chainrai også har lagt op til. De to er næppe på talefod i forvejen, og jeg kan tænke mig til, at det ikke skal gå meget galt før Appleton enten selv vælger at gå eller bliver fyret. Lige meget hvad så vil han i givet fald forlade klubben med højt løftet hoved. Og lige meget hvor hans næste job så bliver, så vil det være som en leg sammenlignet med, hvad han har måttet stå model til hos os.

Mit bud på de næste kapitler i denne historie er - vel vidende at det kun er en tåbe, som tør spå om de næste begivenheder i klubben - som følger:

- Chainrai/Portpin overtager klubben, og pointstraffen effektueres.

- Appletons budget reduceres og en større del af truppen kommer til at bestå af spillere fra akademiet.

- Dette vil i sidste ende resultere i nedrykning til League 2. Appleton vil dog på det tidspunkt sandsynligvis være fortid i klubben. Whittingham/Gray tager over.

- De unge spillere som har gjort det godt i efterårssæsonen bliver solgt i januars transfervindue for at skaffe penge til Chainrai.

- Der skæres yderligere i medarbejderstaben for at reducere omkostningerne dvs. Chainrais udgifter.

- I 2013-14 sæsonen i League 2 starter det forfra igen. De bedste unge spillere sælges ved første mulige lejlighed osv.

Alt sammen naturligvis betinget af, at Chainrai/Portpin ikke finder en ny obskur russer, der vil købe klubben.

Nå ja, så er der vist også en 3. part som efter sigende har vist interesse i klubben. Det er Watfords tidligere ejer Lawrence Bassini.

Her er et par ord om, hvem han er. Det lyder som et perfekt match:


Good morning guys,

I´m a Watford fan (obviously), admin of our forums, but thought I´d pop over and give you a heads up on LB.

Basically, you do not want this man anywhere near your club, when he bought us over there was investigations into who he was, but no one could find anything, because as we found out, within a year earlier he´d changed his name from Laurence Bazini to LaWrence BaSSini and declared himself bankrupt after a string of 10+ failed businesses and his dad refusing to help him out.

See here: http://bit.ly/O4nEEQ

During the tenure, the start wasn´t bad but difficult to judge, players left to bring money in and then a few players came in, not for very much but it seemed he was willing at least, as it turns out, he borrowed money against the sale of Danny Graham and wasn´t exactly forthright with the repayments, a £1.8M HMRC bill was unpaid at his departure along with every other creditor bill unpaid as the cheque bounced, because he froze the bank account.

At Watford we regularly used to do events called ´at your place´ where the Chairman, manager, and a few players would go to a local pub and do a fans forum type thing, every single one Bassini called in sick about 30 minutes before, so we never actually got to speak to this man. Graham Taylor criticised him for this the first time, and he threw his toys out the pram and threatened all sorts, telling any media source who´d listen like a true spoilt brat.

When Bassini bought us over, he claimed this, this and this was going to be done, he bought our pub back from land developers and re-opened it (turns out, did this with the money he borrowed, and still owns it as a condition of sale), and he "started" work on one of our corners, which still looks as it did before he came in. He also "bought a PA system and a screen", again with the money he borrowed.

It´s also worth noting, that the first thing noticed when LB took over was he bought a high spec Bentley as a club car, probably not the wisest choice for someone previously bankrupt that needed to just consolidate us.

Anyway, when the Pozzo family became interested in buying the club is when the **** hit the fan, Bassini demanded ridiculous sums of money (£15M) for something he paid £440K for. Bassini went to Sky Sports and BBC and told them the deal was off because ´they didn´t have the money´ (nice way to try and put your potential buyers off), but then the local newspaper was claiming the deal was still on despite those claims, due to information from board members that HAD to be kept on from the previous regime as a condition of Bassini´s buying of WFC.

I should probably mention at this point, that Lord Ashcroft owned the club before, and he still is owed £8M in bond repayments from it as he took that restructure out to help the clubs finances, and because of this essentially still had a stronghold over the club, part of his sale had the condition that the board had to include some of his members.

When Bassini did this, Ashcroft seemingly forced through the sale from under Bassini at what the Pozzo/Ashcroft agreed. When this happened LB went berserk, he stormed into the club demanding entry to our safe, and when the clubs financial official denied him entry (club policy, you need signatories for access like most organisations), he fired her on the spot and had her escorted from the premises, whilst quoted in the local rag "It´s my safe, my safe!" spoken like a true child.

See here: http://bit.ly/TWtieZ

Our press officer was sacked for posting on the official website that the sale was still going through, not collapsed like LB had stated, and then instantly re-hired by said board members.

The height of all this was when Sky Sports reported about this all and the sale going through on SSN, Bassini immediately threatened legal action and then tried to sue, that didn´t last long, for reference.

He at one point also claimed he didn´t want to own WFC anymore so he could spend more time with his daughter, quite what he expects Portsmouth do I don´t know, let alone how he´s going to account for all that extra commuting time.

I know Portsmouth FC aren´t in a great place at the moment, and I know you don´t have the football world´s sympathy, but I wouldn´t wish this guy on anyone and he´ll only drag you down further, and no one wants a football club to cease existence.

Any questions on him I can try and ask, might not come on that often but will pop back.