Two players who Wolves tried to sign at the start of the season ended up playing for Portsmouth instead.
Why? Because Pompey offered more money. It’s a joke!
It makes me really angry now to see Portsmouth facing financial ruin because of the poor way they have been run for years.
We missed out on players because of their irresponsibility and while I feel sorry for the fans, the people running the show are getting what they deserve.
The only solution for Portsmouth is administration. Take the point deduction, get relegated, sell the best players and start to rebuild. However far the club drops before it reaches its bottom can’t be as bad as going in to liquidation and ceasing to exist completely. Memories of the FA Cup triumph will seem very distant if the club folds.
Peter Storrie claims many clubs are run in the same way as Portsmouth and cites Chelsea as the example of running up huge debts to fund its ambitions. He says the difference was that Chelsea found an owner to bail them out.
The difference of course is that when Abramovic bought Chelsea they already had a great squad, a brilliant new stadium, a new training complex and were challenging for honours. They were an attractive proposition.
Portsmouth have a poor squad, a muddy bog of a training field and a small stadium that is going to ruin.
The infrastructure just isn’t there and again, this is because investment wasn’t made when the going was good.
They bought short term gain at the expense of long-term business sense.
Right now Storrie is lining up a buyer to rescue the club. But what type of person with the money to clear £60 million of debt would want to own Portsmouth?
I’ll be sad to see Portsmouth drop out of the Premier League because they have always been entertaining to watch and have great fans who support them no matter what.
As for the players we missed out on, Mick McCarthy didn’t say exactly who it was.
I’m almost certain one was Tommy Smith and the other was probably Ben Haim.
Whether either of them would have had an impact on our form if Portsmouth had been honest with themselves about their future back in the summer, we’ll never know.
As for this weekend's result. We played well but Chelsea's quality eventually shone through. No complaints there. Plus with Bolton and Hull losing too, we're one week closer to the end of the season and still a point above the relegation zone.
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Posted by Wolve Wayne on 02/22/2010
Sorry, but i dont want to see any harm come to Portsmouth, and i think Mick was wrong to have a spat at them, it angered me and embarrased me, talk about kicking someone when they are down. Play up Pompey, i hope you do come through this, and i hope Storrie is held acountable along with Redknapp and your owner (Sorry forgot his name), as they are all the ones to blame, but to go into admin, etc only punishes the fans, not one of them 3.
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Posted by Russell Anderson on 02/22/2010
I'm a Pompey fan but I agree with you 100%. Our club is a shambles and the way it has been run over the last few years is an absolute disgrace. However, from your perspective, if we did stop you signing a couple of the players we brought in this season, then you've been pretty lucky as most of them are dire!
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Posted by Rob Nockemann on 02/22/2010
I agree with everything you say Daniel,i feel the stadium though too small for the Prem has a lot of character. Yes Pompey have great support of that there is no doubt.
If the players in question where Ben Haim and Smith i wouldn't have thought they'd have made much of an impact. If they were O'Hara or Prince Boateng (on early season form) then they would have definitely made a difference.
Today is supposedly the day for positive news re potential South African consortium take over so fingers crossed, if you're a Pompey fan. I can not see it happening myself. Getting Pompey on the cheap once the debts have been marginalised after administration is the only way a sensible investor should ever want to take over the mess that is Portsmouth football club!
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Posted by Chris on 02/22/2010
At the end of the day, who suffers? It certainly won't be the owners and others who have mismanaged and fleeced this club, it'll be local businesses who'll not be paid and the fans who, like me, have watched Pompey through thick and thin.
Don't get me wrong, I've loved watching Pompey in the Prem, loved watching them win the FA Cup and loved watching them play in Europe, but the way football is run at the top level is a one way road to Armageddon with players in particular bleeding the game dry. £100k a week, and that's not the highest, represents by the time you allow for concessions around 7000 bums on seats each home game - it's total insanity and if the TV money ever went pop it's goodbye Prem League. Until controls are brought in with caps on wages (let’s face £5000 a week is still good money and equivalent to £50,000 a year over a normal working life!!) and gate money being shared so that there was some balance between big and small nothing will change until it all goes bang.
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