Portsmouths Offy Taken Offline/Update

MWOOHAHA! ;D

That is shocking, they are in serious serious trouble, maybe flav should go and rescue them.

Here he is;

www.mauromilanese.com/

Great find Tobo
That was a brilliant season: with Colantuono on the bench we set the record for the largest number of away wins, reaching 2nd place with Torino and Empoli. The play -off final against Torino: a competition which proved useless to both clubs, because the Genoa, Championship winner, was to be relegated to Serie C for sport illicit. At that point Serie A was guaranteed, but another disappointing event was just round the corner, bringing back an old nightmare: Perugia went bankrupt. So I decided to try a new adventure and consider for the first time the possibility of working abroad. The opportunity came through my close friend and team-mate Fabrizio Ravanelli, who arranged a one-week trial for me with Queens Park Rangers, a legendary club from London, currently in Championship. The club had an italian president, Gianni Paladini, who had always been involved with English soccer; later on president Antonio Caliendo would also join the club. After about ten days in England it was time for me to sign a contract, and to start this new experience, with the Championship already begun. English soccer is really fascinating: to me it represents a unique experience I’m very proud of, and I’m glad to have ve made this choice.

It has given me the opportunity to make new friends and meet new people, and most of all, I’ve finally had the chance to fill the language gap, and learn to speak english correctly, in the capital town and with the legendary Queen’s club founded back in 1882. I am currently playing my second season with the QPR. I enjoy living in London and I’m still eager to play. What will my next colours be? I would like to wear the Queens Park Rangers colours again. The bond with my two presidents has grown strong to the point that I don’t need an agent; but taking a look back at my career the only thing I can state for sure is .... we’ll see..

'The bond with my two presidents has grown strong to the point that I don’t need an agent'

hmmmmm, I bet you don't.

Portsmouth's Peter Storrie reveals role 'untenable'


Storrie heard about Kaboul's move from Grant
Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie has laid bare the tensions within the club's hierarchy over Younes Kaboul's possible move to Tottenham.
Storrie discovered from Pompey boss Avram Grant that meetings were occurring at Spurs over Kaboul's sale.
And asked if he felt his role had become untenable, Storrie told Quay Radio: "In many ways it probably has.
"If there is a need to sell a player and get a fee then I feel I am the best person for the situation," he added.
Barely a day goes by without new revelations coming to light about Pompey's perilous financial position, hence the need to sell Kaboul to his former club Spurs for possibly as much as £11m.
Facing debts of about £60m, Pompey face a winding-up order in the high court on 10 February for unpaid taxes.
The club, bottom of the Premier League, have also failed to pay their players on time on three occasions this season.


The club's official website was temporarily closed down because of payment problems on Thursday.
Grant returned to Fratton Park in October last year when he was named as the club's director of football, a position he previously held in 2006-7.
And the Israeli soon took over the managerial reins in November when Paul Hart was sacked following Portsmouth's terrible start to the Premier League season.
Former defender Sol Campbell is suing the club for £1.7 for unpaid image rights while staff at the club have also been warned that their January wages might be late.

When we were last (!) in the Cup Final, it was evident that we were on our way up the following year. Even the Daily Telegraph, on reporting our opening day defeat at Newcastle and the entrance of one Kevin Keegan remarked that 'only one of these sides is going up this year'. (They meant us in case you are in any doubt).

Sad that winning the FA Cup has basically meant ruin for Pompey.

Bosman - bad
Agents - bad
Sky - bad
total worship of money in the game - bad.

and that's why it ain't the same no more.

Talk in the press re Grant and Storrie maybe quitting

The Times January 29, 2010

The net closes in on Portsmouth’s debts

Kaboul is likely to be sold to Tottenham to ease the club?s debts
Nick Szczepanik
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Another day in the apparent meltdown of Portsmouth began yesterday morning with the club website going offline because the bills had not been settled.

It ended with the manager and chief executive in the dark over the likely sale of the club’s most valuable player. Today? Probably a delay in the payment of players’ wages for the third time in four months.

Peter Storrie, the chief executive, is understood to be “very unhappy” about negotiations carried out behind his back for the transfer of Younès Kaboul to Tottenham Hotspur — as are Avram Grant, the manager, and Mark Jacob, the executive director. The talks were handled instead by Daniel Azougy, the Israeli lawyer employed by the club’s owners to look after Portsmouth’s finances, despite his convictions for fraud and obstruction of justice in Israel.

Storrie said that it was up to the owners if they wanted to sell players, but that ignoring his experience in conducting transfer negotiations left his position close to untenable. “In many ways it probably has,” he said. “If there is a need to sell a player and get a fee, then I feel I am the best person for the situation.” Tanya Robins, the finance director, resigned last week after being sidelined in favour of Azougy.

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Kaboul joined Portsmouth in August 2008 from Tottenham, now managed by Harry Redknapp, the Portsmouth manager at the time, but about £2 million of the original fee paid by Portsmouth is still outstanding. But if the move will be as unpopular with supporters as it is with Grant, it may be unavoidable.

It is assumed that the players’ wages will not be paid on time today, while staff received an e-mail yesterday warning them that they face a delay. It is understood that payments to consultants and contractors are much farther in arrears.

Without an injection of funds, the club could not pay the £1.75 million wage bill as well as financing the signings they hope to make now that the Premier League has partially lifted its transfer embargo. The club are allowed to sign players only on loans or free transfers, but they must still find additional wages, loan fees, agents’ fees and signing-on bonuses. The club received very little of the £1.6 million reported to remain from their share of the television payout, with the League setting some aside to pay Watford and West Ham United instalments due on the transfers of Tommy Smith and Hayden Mullins respectively.

The chaotic state of the club’s finances was emphasised yesterday when Times Online revealed that the official club website had gone offline as a result of Portsmouth’s failure to pay the company that hosts its online presence. “It’s down because we haven’t paid the bill,” a club source said. “We haven’t kept to the payment schedule.” The site was back up by mid-afternoon after Juicy, the club’s Bournemouth-based digital partner, announced that the two sides had agreed a new payment plan.

The disappearance of an official club voice from the internet in such circumstances is a damaging blow to the club’s standing and a PR embarrassment, but worse could follow.

Portsmouth face a winding-up petition from Revenue & Customs on February 10, and some club insiders are concerned that events may follow a course similar to those this week at Crystal Palace, where administrators were called in the day before a winding-up petition was due to be heard.

Neil Warnock is staying on as manager of Palace despite their slide into administration and the loss of ten Championship points. Palace have debts estimated to be £30 million and need to raise about £4 million to see out the season.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/portsmouth/article7007244.ece