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33 redundancies,

 

Birch said the savings he is making, which also include asking some staff to work part-time instead of full-time, amount to approximately £400,000 a month.

 

400,000 divided by 33 = 12121.212121 (spooky number) but PFC obviously pay well.

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He clearly knows infinitely more about insolvency law than I do, but I'm a bit confused. The club needs a CVA to avoid a massive points deduction in the season they emerge from admin. If the club were to be sold for, say, £25m: Chainrai gets his £17m with the rest of the £23m-£33m sharing £8m. What if, at the creditors meeting, they vote down the CVA? HMRC are reported to be owed between £1m-£7m. If the final figure is more than 25% of the debt buy value, they start next season on -15 or worse.

HMRC won't necessarily be the problem, although they'll have a significant input. Baker Tilly, as supervisors to the old CVA, are owed £16m, and as they were installed as supervisors by HMRC, it stands to reason that they would probably vote against any new CVA which dilutes the old creditors' return even further.

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33 redundancies,

 

Birch said the savings he is making, which also include asking some staff to work part-time instead of full-time, amount to approximately £400,000 a month.

 

400,000 divided by 33 = 12121.212121 (spooky number) but PFC obviously pay well.

 

lampit was rumoured to be on 600k a year, so thats 50k in wages and probably a heafty whack in paye,ni and pension contributions off the books.

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lampit was rumoured to be on 600k a year, so thats 50k in wages and probably a heafty whack in paye,ni and pension contributions off the books.

 

The GOOD news is that PCFC 2010 have only been in existance for a year so when it comes to redundancy payments............

 

More people who cannot afford it get screwed again

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Won't they fall under the TUPE regulations, Phil?

 

You're asking me a question about UK Employment Legislation? :lol:

 

Was just working from the start point that many would have only signed up new contracts with NewCo so length of service is the issue. But then I ain't got involved in UK stuff for about 18 years.

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From second post of the meeting....

 

-The debt of the club is valued, in total, at approximately £46m, but this does include the debt to CSI, the debenture etc

 

What does it include then, as CSI and the (17m) debenture is £28m in the figures we have been working to......

£16m CVA to Baker Tilly, £1.6m to HMRC for unpaid PAYE/NI from December/January, about the same in unpaid wages for January.

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From second post of the meeting....

 

-The debt of the club is valued, in total, at approximately £46m, but this does include the debt to CSI, the debenture etc

 

What does it include then, as CSI and the (17m) debenture is £28m in the figures we have been working to......

 

It includes the debt to CSI, the debenture and all the rest. I suspect you've read a 'not' where there isn't one in the bit you've quoted.

 

Edit: on a second reading, maybe you haven't! Mr Grant's post above gives some more details...

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It appears the FL has finally woken up.

 

As has Matt Slater.

 

Parachute payments...

 

The original CVA proposed using them to pay off the debt, maybe the FL/PL have grown some and seen that "the 2nd admin may decide to change the rules" and have grown some.

 

Fun days, thank fook for jetlag

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Ah, so you think AA would not have seen this line

 

just because of the transfer, employees are not dismissed before or after (unless there is an 'economic, technical or organisational' reason, r 7(1)(b)) employees' most important terms and conditions of contracts are not worsened before or after the transfer (unless there is an 'economic, technical or organisational' reason,

 

njoy xchurch airport. Jet lag just about burnt out for tonight, sweet dreams one and all

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Looking at their fixtures, I do think they'd need to lose a few players or be hit with more points deductions to be relegated. Lot of winnable games for the side they (unfairly) have. Still seems odd to me, they can stay up and relegate someone else simply because they decided to not pay tax and ignore debt.

 

That's pompeyconomics for you. The logic doesn't seem to apply to the rest of the business or football world.

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Perhaps he has spent all his money in bars and in paying his court imposed fines.

 

Iwonder if he will survive if he has to take a pay deferral. Don't the DSSdo loans or something for people who are in dire financial straits 'cos their employer hasn't paid them?

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Where are Corp Ho and pfc123 to explain why everything is tickety-boo?

 

Or is Corp PMSLing?

 

Corp was on here last night at 5.32 pm but clearly couldn't come up with more bullshi* to explain why everything was all right. Perhaps the penny is dropping??

 

PFC, poor s*d, may well be one of the 33. He is probably in the pub spending the redundo that he will never get paid.

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"Club debts will be frozen out of a sale price, so price of the club will be the price of the club. Any potential owner would have to consider future committments to player contracts".

 

Can anyone expiain this statement?

 

I guess another CVA, creditors get screwed, Pompey start again with a clean slate.

 

It's a scandal!

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"Club debts will be frozen out of a sale price, so price of the club will be the price of the club. Any potential owner would have to consider future committments to player contracts".

 

Can anyone expiain this statement?

 

"We're gonna see if we can get away with writing off our debts again without anyone (apart from those pesky SWF sleuths and Matt Slater) noticing"....?

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"Club debts will be frozen out of a sale price, so price of the club will be the price of the club. Any potential owner would have to consider future committments to player contracts".

 

Can anyone expiain this statement?

 

The club will be bought for £1 but you'll still have Chanrai, Gaydamak sniffing around and Ben Haim on £36k a week??

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Huseklepps agent has now confirmed, that he (Huseklepp, not the agent) has joined Birmingham on loan for the remainder of the season

 

http://www.nrk.no/sport/fotball/1.8007960

 

Has it made Brum stronger - Really !!

 

I would argue not - Heseklepp IMHO is a very average player prone to fits and starts of good form inbetween long periods of mediocrity at best !

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DL Leeds both toast

Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 07:44 AM

Morning Steve. Tiger here. Well AA holding 800k this is ridiculous and should be unethical, so very kind of him give back 600k, how can he justify holding 200k exactly for what, CSI supposed pay him back by BC now PFC pay him....Birch will sort this out.......but yes he had 800k sitting in his account when he could have paid staff all owed and half players salaries thats amiss. this will be the last straw for all fans and AA and even me i have tried not to get into a slaggin match on AA while he was involved but frankly now he is looking every worse.......holding 800k when we needed the money

 

 

Lol at this lot...I'd of thought not paying your taxes, or ripping of local charities would be more of a talking point, but I guess fish see things differently!

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So I'm curious: how can due diligence be carried out by TB, only for him to discover within a week that things are far worse than he expected?

 

Very low expectations I imagine although his firm did work on the CSI takeover (is that how you spell shafting?) so it's difficult to imagine how low they could be! Hohohochucklechuckle.

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