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Over and above all the other percieved underhand dealings, accusations and thoughts of impropriety, (Which may or may not proved), An appointed adminstrator has published and signed and document which has a 50 million pound delta between that and a court assigned accountancy firms "Statement of Affairs", for which the Directors were legally obliged to co-operate in full with and disclose the relevant information.

 

I am am no expert, but unless I have missed something, either AA or story/other pfc directors is lying or has lied. Does that make them criminally neleglient, i don't know, but i have a feeling that a file is getting bigger and bigger and closer and closer to the man at the CPS.

 

+1 Think that sums it up for me

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maybe I missed it, but presumably poopey are still due some installments on players they have sold? or were all recent deals done for cash?
they took reduced payments early. All that is gone, except some from Oneill at Boro
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A leopard never changes its spots...

 

....and this article describes the game being played...

 

The most damaging criticism of Andronikou is within a High Court ruling in December 2008. An appeal judge overturned an attempt by Shami Ahmed, the founder of Joe Bloggs, the clothing company, to avoid bankruptcy through an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) handled by Andronikou.

HMRC and a spread-betting firm then known as Tradindex had opposed the IVA, which needed approval from three-quarters of Ahmed’s creditors. The fashion boss had run up more than £4m in gambling debts. But the IVA was successful because Andronikou had accepted the validity of £8m in alleged loans to Ahmed from members of his family, thereby making them creditors and giving them a vote on the IVA.

At an appeal by Tradindex, the judge took a different view and disallowed £5m of these family loans, thereby overturning Ahmed’s IVA, and he was forced into bankruptcy.

The judgment said: “Mr Andronikou’s conduct in these proceedings, particularly in relation to evidence filed by him on behalf [of Ahmed and his family], was manifestly inappropriate.” The judge also found that Andronikou “did fail to meet the standard to be expected of a reasonably competent insolvency practitioner”.

 

 

 

Bingo. Suggest this is sent to 'anyone who may be interested' as a gentle reminder....?

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A leopard never changes its spots...

 

....and this article describes the game being played...

 

 

 

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Conspiracy theory alert....

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Well according to Mr Andro-thingy's little opus it's a CVA or bust for Poopey (well sort of).

 

It quite specifically says that no CVA means they move straight to a creditors voluntary liquidation or a compulsory winding up. Andro and his mate are slated to carry out these procedures if it comes to that.

 

However, further on it, interestingly, says that CVA or not the Administrators can, without recourse to creditors, sell to anyone of their choosing or dispose of any bits in any manner they wish.

 

Presumably, the rationale being if they are able to procure more funds that way than otherwise exist in the pot. However, this does seem a tidy little hole for them to crawl through when perhaps explaining that, oh gosh, at the eleventh hour we've been lucky enough to sell the club, or grandstand, or whatever other assets to Mr C, or even Mr G (snr or jnr) and wasn't that nice of them to come back in and help us out.

 

It may well be that Mr A has a fallback plan if a CVA can't be achieved, or then again maybe even if it can. His document did rather seem to give him open ended authority whilst bypassing creditors, if he so chose.

 

Perhaps some of our insolvency experts could have a look at this aspect and offer their opinion on the legitimacy or normality of this situation?

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Well according to Mr Andro-thingy's little opus it's a CVA or bust for Poopey (well sort of).

 

It quite specifically says that no CVA means they move straight to a creditors voluntary liquidation or a compulsory winding up. Andro and his mate are slated to carry out these procedures if it comes to that.

 

However, further on it, interestingly, says that CVA or not the Administrators can, without recourse to creditors, sell to anyone of their choosing or dispose of any bits in any manner they wish.

 

Presumably, the rationale being if they are able to procure more funds that way than otherwise exist in the pot. However, this does seem a tidy little hole for them to crawl through when perhaps explaining that, oh gosh, at the eleventh hour we've been lucky enough to sell the club, or grandstand, or whatever other assets to Mr C, or even Mr G (snr or jnr) and wasn't that nice of them to come back in and help us out.

 

It may well be that Mr A has a fallback plan if a CVA can't be achieved, or then again maybe even if it can. His document did rather seem to give him open ended authority whilst bypassing creditors, if he so chose.

 

Perhaps some of our insolvency experts could have a look at this aspect and offer their opinion on the legitimacy or normality of this situation?

 

I think there are two things here:

 

1. AA reckons he knows what he can offer in the £ for creditors in order to get the CVA. The only way he can do this is if he is in receipt of some sort of offer. Since he says there are no buyers out there, then this can only mean Chanrai will buy the club for a price that produces the x pence in the £.

 

It's a back-to-front way of doing things IMO.

 

2. It is his duty, in law, to get the best deal for the creditors. So, surely, if he has gone down the liquidation route, and then someone buys the assets, the money they pay will still have to go to the creditors.

 

I'm not at all sure about what happens in the second scenario - I'm sure some of you out there do know.

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The table of creditors’ debts is a shameful and shabby record of a morally bankrupt business with no morals or scruples that has serially stuck two fingers up to everyone it deals with.

 

It has shat upon everyone, from the highest to the lowest, with absolutely no regard for the welfare of the businesses they deal with, their only concern being whether they have enough money to pay for players they patently could not afford.

 

From the amounts of monies owed to similar companies, it is obvious they have run up as much tick as they can before a company has refused them any credit, and then simply gone off to set up an account at another company.

 

Examples; Heritage Leisure Design (who would provide all the badging and club crests on various shirts, products etc) are owed £93,000, so are Hargreaves Promotions, who do a similar thing.

 

There are several catering companies owed money, including county Caterers at £128,000.

 

With a Cosham address, County Caterers are presumably a local business, built up over the years by a family or individual, who thought he was on to a good thing when he won a contract at Fratton Park. I don’t know the size of the business, but I would be surprised if it could take a £128,000 bath, so it’s likely that business will go bust.

 

All for the cost of Utaka’s wages for two weeks.

 

Other examples of them fouling their own nest include Johnson’s Newspapers to the tune of £20,000 (for unpaid advertising, etc) and still The News fawn all over them.

 

Cowplain Community School, at £14,000, head a lengthy list of schools and colleges who presumably rented their premises for p***ey’s academy/schools of excellence, only to have their good faith thrown back in their faces.

 

They owe Portsmouth City council £28,000 in poll tax (and moan that the council won’t come in and buy Krap Nottarf back off Chainrai and make it a community stadium).

 

The Performing Rights Society are owed £19k, but presumably they still play music on match days.

 

They even crap on their own employees. Photographer Dave Jordan (a freelance who has a contract with the club to supply pics for programmes, etc) is owed £4,000, club doctor Nigel Sellars is owed £15,000, former PR guru Gary Double is £13k in the hole.

The landladies who put up their academy trainees are owed a total of £12,000.

They even owe £30 to press room steward Mick Hogan (who probably re-stocked the tea/coffee/milk supply and slapped in the receipt in the vain hope he would be re-imbursed). I know Mick as a genuinely and thoroughly nice bloke, who will probably shrug his shoulders at the loss of £30, but it’s an indication of the utter contempt they hold people in that they wouldn’t repay him.

 

Further afield, and perhaps dangerously for them, there are several hefty debts outstanding in Southampton, not least of all the £41,000 they owe King Edwards school for use of Wellington sports ground, and Southampton firm TWC Joinery who are owed £54,000.

 

Then there are the intriguing little debts which have you a-wondering and guessing.

 

Who has racked up a £7.5k debt at the Concorde Club, and why?

 

And who took the £46 cab ride with Radio Cabs of Southampton, and from where to where?

 

This is a document of complete and utter shame and sham, a cheats charter and now it is in the public domain, hopefully their appearance at Wembley will now no longer be the tale of a brave club’s fight against the odds, but how they completely and shamelessly reneged on every fiscal obligation they had to pay for a day out.

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The Concorde club is very close to where they train and I once saw David James in their carpark doing a u-turn. Don't forget that these suppliers will have had to account for the VAT element of these 'sales' and will not be able to claim that back until the debt is formally written off.

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I may be wrong here but that document says Pompey owe £2m to a company called Peco AG

 

Nothing wrong with that you might think... until you have a look at that company and it "seems" Peco AG was liquidated 11 years ago!!! How can you have a debt with a nonexistent company?

 

http://www.moneyhouse.ch/u/peco_ag_CH-400.3.005.256-4.htm

 

Trying to fiddle the figures Mr Andronikou? Like when you did this...

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/portsmouth/article7069905.ece

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The table of creditors’ debts is a shameful and shabby record of a morally bankrupt business with no morals or scruples that has serially stuck two fingers up to everyone it deals with.

 

It has shat upon everyone, from the highest to the lowest, with absolutely no regard for the welfare of the businesses they deal with, their only concern being whether they have enough money to pay for players they patently could not afford...

 

 

...This is a document of complete and utter shame and sham, a cheats charter and now it is in the public domain, hopefully their appearance at Wembley will now no longer be the tale of a brave club’s fight against the odds, but how they completely and shamelessly reneged on every fiscal obligation they had to pay for a day out.

 

+1, a fantastic post, well written.

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Who has racked up a £7.5k debt at the Concorde Club, and why?

 

And who took the £46 cab ride with Radio Cabs of Southampton, and from where to where?

 

I think I heard that the players and staff leave their cars there when flying to games and Radio Cabs ferry them from the Concorde to the Airport and back. Whether that's got anything to do with it? :smt102

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So much for Corperate Ho-bag's assertion that only we care about their level of debt...

 

Thankyou Talksport for having the bottle to tell it like it is.

 

Indeed. They are reading through the list of creditors with disgust and apoplexy. Also Pompey fans ringing up saying they "had no idea" that so many local businesses were affected.

 

They laughed over the fact thst Saints were owed £35k

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I think I heard that the players and staff leave their cars there when flying to games and Radio Cabs ferry them from the Concorde to the Airport and back. Whether that's got anything to do with it? :smt102

 

You could well be right.

 

If that was the case and it was a regular thing, you might think they had an account with Radio Cabs.

 

Of course, £46 might be the unpaid portion of that account, and while it's some time since I used a Southampton cab, that amount hints to me a single, late-night journey. Perhaps from somewhere like, say, Horton Heath, to the portsmouth area.

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They have just said on Talk Sport that if they are still in admin at the begining of next season they will not get a points deduction untill the following season and thats only if they are still in admin at that time. Nickh is right the bastards are getting away with it.

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They have just said on Talk Sport that if they are still in admin at the begining of next season they will not get a points deduction untill the following season and thats only if they are still in admin at that time. Nickh is right the bastards are getting away with it.

 

That doesn't mean no points deduction in 2010/11. If they don't get a CVA then they will have a points deduction or even no "golden share".

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Stan Collymore on Talksport has continued to rip into them - £3m on image rights - for players who couldn't sell a teacup!!! Says someone should be looking into that (HMRC)

 

Mark Saggers - should they still be allowed to play in the cup final?

 

Mark Saggers & Danny Kelly agreed on the handover as they were both company directors, if it had been their companies, then they would be in jail by now.

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They have just said on Talk Sport that if they are still in admin at the begining of next season they will not get a points deduction untill the following season and thats only if they are still in admin at that time. Nickh is right the bastards are getting away with it.

According to Football League rules, a club cannot start two consecutive seasons in administration.

 

For example, if Stockport don't get taken over by the start of next season, they'll be kicked out of the Football League.

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That doesn't mean no points deduction in 2010/11. If they don't get a CVA then they will have a points deduction or even no "golden share".

 

What they said was that if they are still in admin then they get no deduction 2010/11. If they are still in admin then according to Talk Sport the CVA issue doesn't come into it.

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What they said was that if they are still in admin then they get no deduction 2010/11. If they are still in admin then according to Talk Sport the CVA issue doesn't come into it.

 

Unless all football debt is paid in full then it is a points deduction. I wouldn't trust Talk Sport for anything.

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According to Football League rules, a club cannot start two consecutive seasons in administration.

 

For example, if Stockport don't get taken over by the start of next season, they'll be kicked out of the Football League.

 

So if they are still in admin come the start of the season and then get taken over during the season with out a CVA being agreed then the points deduction will be 2011/12 season?

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I don't think that is right. I wouldn't trust Talk Sport for anything.

 

I hope you're right or they could start next season with no points deduction, unless The Football League impose the deduction during the season if they come out of admin with no CVA.

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According to Football League rules, a club cannot start two consecutive seasons in administration.

 

For example, if Stockport don't get taken over by the start of next season, they'll be kicked out of the Football League.

 

they'll probably bend over backwards for 'poor pompey' and their 'fantastic' supporters..

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I reckon everyone here should send a "throw the book at them" type email to the FA. No need to mention where you live!

 

Surely the FA could charge then with 'bringing the game into disrepute'. This whole farce has dragged football into the disrepute mire far more than the usual thing of Neil Warnock disagreeing with an offside decision.

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It says in the document that they want to protect their Academy status, yet, they owe significant money to KES, Cowplain School, HMS Collingwood, all academy venues that probably will not count as football debts.

 

The more you look at the list of creditors it seems amazing that more people have not taken them to court, there are a number of significant debts for local businesses. Difficult to defend that they have not been trading insolvently.

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