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A source close to Portpin has rushed to assure anyone who will listen that they will win the case on valuation based on a bid from Simon Jordan that apparently offered £8m for the ground and from Harris whose valuation is £5m. Their fundamental problem is that these valuations are stunningly irrelevant.

 

Those ‘bids’ are not part of the process. Unless it is a bid that can succeed it has no relevance. The market value of the land is what someone who can buy Pompey will pay for it, not what someone who happens to want to but isn’t or can’t would pay for it. It’s totally irrelevant.

 

The reason lies in Section 71 of the Insolvency Act under which the valuation case would be heard. The administrator is able to ask the court to release a charge at market value as long as it is in line with the aims of the administration. The aim of the administration is to secure the best deal for creditors.

 

And here is the rub: you can only collect the £8.5m in parachute payments to give to creditors if you can take the club out of administration and receive the golden share. The Harris bid cannot receive the golden share so their bid cannot serve the aims of the administration, so PKF are obliged to forget about it. Simon Jordan’s bid is not a bid – it’s gone and it’s too late to return. Sulaiman Al Fahim’s heroic attempt to open a bank account never amounted to anything.

 

So market value comes down to two factors:

1. What a bidder still in the process is prepared to pay

2. What an independent valuer assesses the value of the land to be

 

We know that the fans bid has a series of valuations. Not one of which is as high as their offer of £3m.

 

So if Portpin were confident that their own valuations would blow this out of the water, why are they trying to push the Football League and Portsmouth City Council into retreat? (Incidentally, Harris spokesman Bick told me the legal grounds on which they felt the Council’s loan was susceptible to challenge. By a curious process of telepathy, Portpin issued a challenge on those same grounds a few days later. Of course Portpin and Harris are in no way connected so just a massive coincidence).

 

This is seemingly an admission that they don’t fancy their chances of winning the valuation case one bit.

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I watched the bit on soccer Saturday and noticed one of the PST called it a "hybrid bid" . Has anyone heard them use this expression before , because I've only ever heard them talk of fan ownership. They seem to be moving towards accepting that its a few rich people using fans money, rather than a fan owenership. I thought that turn of phrase was very telling.

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Two flaws in that argument:

1) The best deal that PKF could strike for the creditors would be to negotiate a separate sale of the ground for the higher price, with a covenant to rent it to PFC2013 for five years at a reasonable rent. They could then sell the 'club' to the Trust for a nominal amount, meaning they wouldn't need the council loan. The Trust then get the Golden Share and everyone's a winner.

2) They won't be seeing the parachute payments anyway. They're going to the football creditors.

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Two flaws in that argument:

1) The best deal that PKF could strike for the creditors would be to negotiate a separate sale of the ground for the higher price, with a covenant to rent it to PFC2013 for five years at a reasonable rent. They could then sell the 'club' to the Trust for a nominal amount, meaning they wouldn't need the council loan. The Trust then get the Golden Share and everyone's a winner.

2) They won't be seeing the parachute payments anyway. They're going to the football creditors.

 

Re 2: but do they not argue that without a golden share there is no club, so the remaining PPs won't be send towards PFC - or in this case the footballing creditors? They will instead be divided amongst the PL clubs...

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Re 2: but do they not argue that without a golden share there is no club, so the remaining PPs won't be send towards PFC - or in this case the footballing creditors? They will instead be divided amongst the PL clubs...

 

But under (1), the club survives and gets the Golden Share. The PPs will probably be diverted to football creditors (like the first year's payments) if this happens. Either way, don't think they'll see the money.

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See @CarlSpangled who also happens to run @sospompey and is chief banner maker and player doorsteper has just called @1jamesbeattie a 'fat scum ****' - this fan ownership is going to be a classy affair isn't it.

 

But , classy picture posted by Beattie - one of my all time favorite pictures of a Saints player

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I went down to Cornwall Friday to see my dad who was 80 for a family get together, so we all went out for a meal in the evening, however later in the evening there was a couple there celebration her 50th, anyway we got talking and found out that he had travelled down that day from Pompey,

 

so i jokingly said you don't support Pompey do you, to which he replied its worse than that i used to play for them, so i asked him what he thought of the trust bid, his reply was, they haven't got any spare money to buy players let alone pay them, (never stopped them in the past though has it), so even he thinks they are dead ducks, Dont ask me for his name as i will not give it out,

 

so there you go an ex Pompey players view on the Trust bid,

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I went down to Cornwall Friday to see my dad who was 80 for a family get together, so we all went out for a meal in the evening, however later in the evening there was a couple there celebration her 50th, anyway we got talking and found out that he had travelled down that day from Pompey,

 

so i jokingly said you don't support Pompey do you, to which he replied its worse than that i used to play for them, so i asked him what he thought of the trust bid, his reply was, they haven't got any spare money to buy players let alone pay them, (never stopped them in the past though has it), so even he thinks they are dead ducks, Dont ask me for his name as i will not give it out,

 

 

 

so there you go an ex Pompey players view on the Trust bid,

 

 

Has he been offered a monthly contract ?

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I went down to Cornwall Friday to see my dad who was 80 for a family get together, so we all went out for a meal in the evening, however later in the evening there was a couple there celebration her 50th, anyway we got talking and found out that he had travelled down that day from Pompey,

 

so i jokingly said you don't support Pompey do you, to which he replied its worse than that i used to play for them, so i asked him what he thought of the trust bid, his reply was, they haven't got any spare money to buy players let alone pay them, (never stopped them in the past though has it), so even he thinks they are dead ducks, Dont ask me for his name as i will not give it out,

 

so there you go an ex Pompey players view on the Trust bid,

 

Super Guy on a night out?

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Dont ask me for his name as i will not give it out

 

Sevvy sits back and waits............

 

 

Some time later.........................

 

Sevvy is still waiting........ Why is no-one asking for his name, I said don't ask hoping people would ask, no-one is asking, I want people to ask, how can I get people to ask, still no one has asked, ummm ok I know, clues, here goes, maybe this will work........

Only clues i will give, white male (obviously) does not now play for football Pompey and now a completely different employment from football,

 

Is it Penny Mordaunt? Oh no, you said it was someone male, hummmmmmmm????????????? ok what's his name?

 

Oh hang on, you said don't ask.

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Sevvy sits back and waits............

 

 

Some time later.........................

 

Sevvy is still waiting........ Why is no-one asking for his name, I said don't ask hoping people would ask, no-one is asking, I want people to ask, how can I get people to ask, still no one has asked, ummm ok I know, clues, here goes, maybe this will work........

 

 

Is it Penny Mordaunt? Oh no, you said it was someone male, hummmmmmmm????????????? ok what's his name?

 

Oh hang on, you said don't ask.

 

:lol:

 

I think I'll wait until the next set of clues until I hazard a guess.

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Looks like Mr Allen is catching up with last week's news...better late than never...

 

@pn_neil_allen: Interesting couple of things in new PKF report to creditors. Full story soon on http://t.co/UhqbCanyg8 - meanwhile some pointers.... #Pompey

 

@pn_neil_allen: 'FL advised PKF it has not received all information requested of Portpin in order to give necessary sanction to any sale (to Ppin).' #Pompey

 

@pn_neil_allen: Settlement has been reached with Gaydamak over his outstanding bank overdraft. The sum agreed was £1,134,677. #Pompey

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Looks like Mr Allen is catching up with last week's news...better late than never...

 

@pn_neil_allen: Interesting couple of things in new PKF report to creditors. Full story soon on http://t.co/UhqbCanyg8 - meanwhile some pointers.... #Pompey

 

@pn_neil_allen: 'FL advised PKF it has not received all information requested of Portpin in order to give necessary sanction to any sale (to Ppin).' #Pompey

 

To be fair to him he was off last week.

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Looks like Mr Allen is catching up with last week's news...better late than never...

 

@pn_neil_allen: Interesting couple of things in new PKF report to creditors. Full story soon on http://t.co/UhqbCanyg8 - meanwhile some pointers.... #Pompey

 

@pn_neil_allen: 'FL advised PKF it has not received all information requested of Portpin in order to give necessary sanction to any sale (to Ppin).' #Pompey

 

@pn_neil_allen: Settlement has been reached with Gaydamak over his outstanding bank overdraft. The sum agreed was £1,134,677. #Pompey

 

 

Settlement may well be agreed/reached with Gaydamak.................Promises by whom and WILL this actually ever be paid..

 

He still owns the car park.......still no payment by Robinson......Will this ever be paid?

 

 

I suspect non returnable deposit/agreement to buy...subject to the Stadium scenario playing out or NOT:rolleyes:

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Nabil Hassan ‏@NabilHassan79

#pompey administrators PKF release latest report to creditors'. Total cost of the administration so far 17 Feb-2 Jan is: £2,164,089.65.

 

Nabil Hassan ‏@NabilHassan79

Important to note the administrators may not claim the full amount & the creditors' committee will have a say in how much is actually paid.

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I like how he did it twice, shows persistence and the type of pride in the shirt skates are always banging on about. He is thinking "i'm going to hit this guy in the knob".... "oh sh!t, just missed, now he is guarding it".... "hang on, there is an opening, yes! Get in, right in the babymaker!"

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After the second punch he steps back and holds his hands out in a "what am I supposed to have done wrong" type stance...

 

What a ****ing weirdo.

 

It's only an "alleged punch" according to The News...

 

http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/defender-s-pompey-future-in-balance-1-4823773

The Blues centre-back was sent off for an alleged punch during an altercation with Oldham’s Lee Barnard early in the second half of Saturday’s 1-0 defeat at Boundary Park.

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It's only an "alleged punch" according to The News...

 

http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/defender-s-pompey-future-in-balance-1-4823773

 

 

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[h=4]Harry Stotle[/h]11:52 AM on 25/02/2013

That vid is now on every footie website on the web.

What a lovely advert for our club.

 

:facepalm: he forgets that his own club is a lovely advert for his club :facepalm:

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@pn_neil_allen: Settlement has been reached with Gaydamak over his outstanding bank overdraft. The sum agreed was £1,134,677. #Pompey

 

The settlement is detailed in the progress report issued by PKF in January! And it actually dates back to before August 2012...

 

Not exactly breaking news...

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