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Are you professing yourself as an expert? Bit rich?

Probably waiting for Carroll to work out how to use a pen for the signatures.

If he comes in and is determined to do the business then our chances of surviving in this league go up dramatically. We need someone like him to create enough chances to win enough games to stay up. Got to get him if he wants to be here.

If the club actually gets sold then we'll see. Losing Mascherano is a biggie. Leaves a lot eggs in 2 baskets.

That would be pretty shit. ..and yet entirely plausible.

The people who took the piss should go to jail. Those that are left deserve their football club. Truth is that Portsmouth are a private company who can generate future tax payments to be pumped into the economy. Liquidate the club and you lose £37m plus all future tax revenues. Dont liquidate the club and get a bit back from the CVA, and get future tax revenues from a stable football club. Liquidate the club and every single club in the country pays every penny it owes on the dot, year in year out. Don't liquidate them and others will take the piss and HMRC might lose a hell of a lot more than that over the next 20 years or so. There will always be a club in Portsmouth so they can always tax the new club too. Make them start from scratch. I think the fear of prison for football club directors that don't pay the taxman is most likely to stop clubs offending. Obviously this requires new government legislation, but should be brought into place. Not liquidating Portsmouth will generate significantly more tax revenue than a non-league Portsmouth. Tough shit. Each month the taxman takes a chunk out of my wages without me having a choice. As does my National Insurance and my pension. Once they've gone my bills get paid and I've got a certain amount to live on. Portsmouth decided that they'd not pay their bills and invest the saved money in the squad and their wage bill. They achieved a fair amount of success with this enhanced squad and made quite a bit of extra money on the back of their FA Cup win and the European place it brought. They've lived beyond their means and have done so whilst deciding not to pay the essential bills that most other people and companies manage to. They deserve no sympathy and should be wiped out and made to start again. It's not the fans' fault but tough shit. Get behind the new club created in Portsmoth or go and support Southampton.

The people who took the piss should go to jail. Those that are left deserve their football club. Truth is that Portsmouth are a private company who can generate future tax payments to be pumped into the economy. Liquidate the club and you lose £37m plus all future tax revenues. Dont liquidate the club and get a bit back from the CVA, and get future tax revenues from a stable football club. Liquidate the club and every single club in the country pays every penny it owes on the dot, year in year out. Don't liquidate them and others will take the piss and HMRC might lose a hell of a lot more than that over the next 20 years or so. There will always be a club in Portsmouth so they can always tax the new club too. Make them start from scratch.

If PFC have taken the piss and now owe the taxman £37m and are not in a position to pay then they deserve to be liquidised. I know it's harsh but that's the way of the world, HMRC need to make an example out of someone to ensure the 91 other clubs don't take the piss and if it's Portsmouth that bite the bullet then tough shit. They should have paid what they owed while they were clawing in millions on the back of their FA Cup win. Like I said, rough with the smooth.

And rightly so in this case. Not sure why the 'public purse' should suffer. Can't see the current government being particularly sympathetic atm. Got to take the rough with the smooth. Nor should they be when protecting what they believe is potentially a £37m debt. Quite agree. We're not talking about buttons and if every other club has coughed up then they should be made to as well. Fair's fair, they owe it so they should pay it.

And rightly so in this case. Not sure why the 'public purse' should suffer. Can't see the current government being particularly sympathetic atm. Got to take the rough with the smooth.

These dickheads could be liquidated at 3pm tomorrow... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8886009.stm

Didn't know that. Thought that Hart had played quite a bit in pre-season and hadn't seen much of the snake and assumed he was still out.

Can't see why Hart or City would agree to it tbh. Hart knows he'll play for City because Given is still out for a bit and if he goes to Sunderland he'd only start until Gordon is fit. At least at Birmingham he knew he'd start every game. Seems like a bit of a pointless move. Meh.

It's up to Hughton to keep him interested and motivated enough to produce from August til May tbh. On the positive side, he should be number 1 choice at RW (not sure if he was at Spurs or Fulham?) so he'll get plenty of games and should see plenty of the ball to perform. We'll just have to wait and see.

It was 9 years ago. Has absolutely no importance now whatsoever. Can't see what you're getting upset about tbh.

Just as our poor squad had no chance against psv the other day It was a friendly. Let's see where we are come November and if you're still really positive then you can bump this post.; Deal?

It's not 'pointless negativity' though, is it? It's completely justified negativity. We've barely strengthened a poor squad. We're going to struggle.

Yay for the happy-clappers! Everything's fine and we're going to be ok. Nothing bad could possibly happen and they all lived happily ever after. This season is going to be horrific and we could well go down. How anyone can blindly think we're going to be safe based on our current squad is beyond me but there you go, it takes all sorts.

Where's our talent? I know we have some but it’s not where it counts, the spine of our team is at best unproven once you get passed centre half and even that area of the team has a lot to prove. Urgh. Cba, you're just being needlessly cynical. There's some good, reasonable PL-standard players in our squad. We haven't finished spending yet either. Got another million to spend have we? I admire your confidence/optimism but Hughton can't make chicken soup out of chicken shit. We're a poor team by Premiership standards and it's going to be a long hard season for us all.

I’m not confident that we’ll finish above any team who were in the Premiership last season. I don't see us having a forward capable of scoring double figures and our central midfielders are so slow and one dimensional. Agree with all of that sadly. Just not sure how shit the likes of Wolves and Wigan will be this season. Are we better than Wigan or Wolves? Not sure myself. It'll be tight.

I'd take 17th right now tbh. We'll be a couple of points from safety - not sure which side of the line we'll be though.

Similar to the Lescott transfer last summer.

Who they aren't going to sign either. You said linked with...

Torres.

Just fitter all round really...