dubai_phil Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 As I posted on the main board, looks like reality wins over ego http://business.maktoob.com/20090000379114/1/AllStoryDiscussions.htm Rumour is that he's selling up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 Oh come on Nicky boy, Don't go all Girly on us You won as well. Only difference is we are 4 points from the safety line, Your still 10, the future's bright its red n white and blue. It will be interesting, at the end of the season, to see how close the two clubs are in League status. It's still feasible, although highly improbable, that we'll be on equal footing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merovingian Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 As I posted on the main board, looks like reality wins over ego http://business.maktoob.com/20090000379114/1/AllStoryDiscussions.htm Rumour is that he's selling up I am particularly enjoying the "one of saudi's richest men" quote looks like if we can hang on until january within 6 points of 17th we can spend our way out of it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alehouseboys Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 Pompey's version of Michael Fialka gets found out! How he took it a stage further than Fialka did I don't understand. I knew the fake ailing doctor reminded me of someone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Bates Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 Todays NOTW "If Al Fahim was watching from his hospital bed, he might have had a relapse. There were 3 of his players, tossing away those expensive jerseys. And to think, it was losing their shirts that got Pompey into this mess in the first place. Yet Jamie O'Hara, Aaron Mokoena and Younes Kaboul simply flung their tops - used just once - into the crowd. To hell with the cost. Maybe Al Fahim will deduct it from their wages. Oops sorry, they haven't got any." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Bates Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 (edited) Double page spread on Pompey. Al Fahim sells majority of his holding to Ali al-Faraj. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/football/533969/New-owner-set-to-take-over-Portsmouth-this-week.html Dispute over Peter Crouch's transfer payment at the Skates. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/tottenham/533533/DISPUTE-OVER-CROUCH-TRANSFER-PAYMENT-Harry-Mandaric-put-my-Crouch-deal-cash-in-Monaco-bank.html Redknapp to be quizzed by Revenue and customs over his offshore accounts. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/football/533560/Harry-Redknapp-is-set-to-be-quizzed-again-by-Revenue-and-Customs-this-week.html Edited 4 October, 2009 by Master Bates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 looks like if we can hang on until january within 6 points of 17th we can spend our way out of it again You had Harry last time to attract players. You won't this time. You'll go down along with Hull and Birmingham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigtonesfc Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 Double page spread on Pompey. Al Fahim sells majority of his holding to Ali al-Faraj. Dispute over Peter Crouch's transfer payment at the Skates. Redknapp to be quizzed by Revenue and customs over his offshore accounts. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/football/533560/Harry-Redknapp-is-set-to-be-quizzed-again-by-Revenue-and-Customs-this-week.html http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/tottenham/533533/DISPUTE-OVER-CROUCH-TRANSFER-PAYMENT-Harry-Mandaric-put-my-Crouch-deal-cash-in-Monaco-bank.html Happy days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 The skates are an embarrassment to the Premier League, everything connected to them stinks of corruption and I wouldn't be surprised if the PL are itching to get shot of them. How can you market the PL as the best league in the World when you have ****ty little clubs like this making you a laughing stock. They could probably put up with their corruption if they had fans and a stadium but they have neither and are a shining example of everything that is wrong with football today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 Double page spread on Pompey. Al Fahim sells majority of his holding to Ali al-Faraj. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/football/533969/New-owner-set-to-take-over-Portsmouth-this-week.html Dispute over Peter Crouch's transfer payment at the Skates. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/tottenham/533533/DISPUTE-OVER-CROUCH-TRANSFER-PAYMENT-Harry-Mandaric-put-my-Crouch-deal-cash-in-Monaco-bank.html Redknapp to be quizzed by Revenue and customs over his offshore accounts. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/football/533560/Harry-Redknapp-is-set-to-be-quizzed-again-by-Revenue-and-Customs-this-week.html Nice to see official confirmation that "Arry profited from transfers. Nice to see MM & HR have fallen out in the middle of a "potential" criminal investigation And nice to see I beat the NoTW to the punch with my scoop out of here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 You had Harry last time to attract players. You won't this time. You'll go down along with Hull and Birmingham. You just keep on clutching at them old straws Ponyboy;) We are 4 points from the relegation shirt tails. you are 22 from an end of season knees up:D is your garden rosey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 You just keep on clutching at them old straws Ponyboy;) We are 4 points from the relegation shirt tails. you are 22 from an end of season knees up:D is your garden rosey? Care to have a £10 bet, for a charity, regarding you staying up? You can pay the NSPCC the £10 you will owe me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorpe-le-Saint Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 In the observer today, reporting that kidney stones man is to sell pompey off again to one of saudi's richest families Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Lungs Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 Wow, funny how the skates all return when there is a glimmer of good news eh? Still, there aren't many of them - which kind of justifies the 'blue few' tag... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 You just keep on clutching at them old straws Ponyboy;) We are 4 points from the relegation shirt tails. you are 22 from an end of season knees up:D is your garden rosey? Awwww...look at you all crawling back after a win! You really don't do yourself any favours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 What's a Ponyboy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudders Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 What's a Ponyboy? Us. Apparently, in the same way as pompey fans all sh@g fish, we all have sex with ponies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 Us. Apparently, in the same way as pompey fans all sh@g fish, we all have sex with ponies .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bourno Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 Us. Apparently, in the same way as pompey fans all sh@g fish, we all have sex with ponies neyyyyyyyyy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 You just keep on clutching at them old straws Ponyboy;) We are 4 points from the relegation shirt tails. you are 22 from an end of season knees up:D is your garden rosey? I would tend to agree with you. If you can stay in touch until Christmas, there is every chance that you can turn it around, so long as the new owners invest. There are some pretty poor teams in the Premiership this year (your one, obviously...! ), but there are worse teams than yourselves, luckily. Personally I think you'll survive - by the skin of your teeth - but you'll survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Bates Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 "It's a witch hunt" http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2667938/I-paid-10million-income-tax.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 Think the Thread title should be renamed. Oh Happy Day - PFC takeover completes, well maybe it did, maybe it's a new one, maybe it's not http://business.maktoob.com/20090000379626/PFC_pray_for_Faraj_as_Fahim_fails_to_deliver/Article.htm?utm_campaign=Night-Newsletter&utm_medium=Main-News8&utm_source=Night-Newsletter&utm_content= PFC praying for a Saudi Muslim Businessman to resuce them... Is it wrong to see some irony there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMPR Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 Bit like SFC praying for a Swiss Crane manufacturer to save them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 Bit like SFC praying for a Swiss Crane manufacturer to save them? Nope. That's his relatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 Bit like SFC praying for a Swiss Crane manufacturer to save them? Well some knuts got to....LIFT..... them out of div 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yate Saint Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 Can there be any more twists!!!! If the Saudi bloke is so rich why are they going to get LOANS of a USA and European 'financial institution'?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 Can there be any more twists!!!! If the Saudi bloke is so rich why are they going to get LOANS of a USA and European 'financial institution'?? er I think you might be getting your Arabs mixed up;) have a word with Dubai_Phill,,,,,,,,,,,he seems to be all clued up on camal humpers.:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint lard Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 Deal will be announced tonight. Faraj will own 90%,Fahim the remainding 10% and become non excec chairman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 Deal will be announced tonight. Faraj will own 90%,Fahim the remainding 10% and become non excec chairman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLt7clQbBzo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merovingian Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 Deal will be announced tonight. Faraj will own 90%,Fahim the remainding 10% and become non excec chairman. massive investment of funds in the offing, training ground to start, large transfer fund available for January, and at last we get our real billionaires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint lard Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 massive investment of funds in the offing, training ground to start, large transfer fund available for January, and at last we get our real billionaires. Not to far from me,will start to dig out some old shirts to bury on the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy_D Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 Well some knuts got to....LIFT..... them out of div 3 heh I see what you did there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 massive investment of funds in the offing, training ground to start, large transfer fund available for January, . Deja Vu:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merovingian Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 maybe but I actually think this one does have the front to back it up, we have had our pinnacle ala Fahim and now have our Liebherr if you like... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 what do you know about them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merovingian Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 likes to keep a low profile, the consortium (its not just him) have serious financial muscle, he has a long term interest in developing the club and the community. Wouldn't expect to see him on the terraces or on the press, much like gaydamak. Either way better than the fake doc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 likes to keep a low profile, the consortium (its not just him) have serious financial muscle, he has a long term interest in developing the club and the community. Wouldn't expect to see him on the terraces or on the press, much like gaydamak. Either way better than the fake doc. Gaydamak's Dad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenevaSaint Posted 6 October, 2009 Share Posted 6 October, 2009 Well I think we and they should wait and see to be honest. Reading the Independant today and no one can actually clarify how much money this fella actually has! I can't believe they'd find another chancer and this fella was recommended by the Story teller. If it's a consortium though as Merovingian says I guess it's a different matter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey-deacons-left-nut Posted 6 October, 2009 Share Posted 6 October, 2009 I notice how the official stament reads "The club will undergo refinancing.." More loans then.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Lungs Posted 6 October, 2009 Share Posted 6 October, 2009 This'll run folks. This'll run. They ain't safe yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMPR Posted 6 October, 2009 Share Posted 6 October, 2009 And you are CB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 6 October, 2009 Share Posted 6 October, 2009 Dr on Solent now - club was in more debt than he thought and has given away 90% for nothing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 6 October, 2009 Share Posted 6 October, 2009 And you are CB? Yes. We are debt free, with a training ground, stadium and a billionaire owner. We all know we won't go down and may yet go up. Can the same be said of you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 6 October, 2009 Share Posted 6 October, 2009 Dr on Solent now - club was in more debt than he thought and has given away 90% for nothing! He owned nowt, it's the gun runner that's been paid off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 6 October, 2009 Share Posted 6 October, 2009 likes to keep a low profile, the consortium (its not just him) have serious financial muscle, he has a long term interest in developing the club and the community. Wouldn't expect to see him on the terraces or on the press, much like gaydamak. Either way better than the fake doc. OK let's do some more cultural training shall we.... Not ALL Brits are naive when it comes to foreign cultures Not ALL Saudi's are fanatical Whahibi Al Qaeda funding militants But, enough of each of them are for their to be a totally different understanding of what each is saying. So, developing the club and the community, this can also be clearly interpreted as You are going to ground share at SMS or Havant/Waterlooville while the former club is redeveloped into "The largest Shopping Mall in Europe" and "Executive Style Housing" The community will be developed by building the largest mosque outside of Mecca Alternatively, he now owns the rights to blackmail the local council to give him planning permission to drain the harbour and build a 20,000 unit canal living new town, otherwise he will not invest in the team Go to the local bookshop, get the latest Chris Ryan book and read the bottom of page two about the SAS rules of engagement in Iraq. I ain't quoting it. So, people from down here will have two motives for investing in football. One is based around Ego (ie that includes things like Man City and building a global brand) or it will be for profit and politics (Al Fayed at Fulham gets to stay in Blighty). A property developer - he'll use the politics to make a profit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer_please Posted 6 October, 2009 Share Posted 6 October, 2009 Care to have a £10 bet, for a charity, regarding you staying up? You can pay the NSPCC the £10 you will owe me. I'll take you up on that as nobody else has.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 6 October, 2009 Share Posted 6 October, 2009 I'll take you up on that as nobody else has.. Excellent. As you've been posting for years I know that you won't whelch on a bet. Do you have a nominated charity just in case a miracle happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer_please Posted 6 October, 2009 Share Posted 6 October, 2009 Excellent. As you've been posting for years I know that you won't whelch on a bet. Do you have a nominated charity just in case a miracle happens? NSPCC is fine with me also. Don't think we need a miracle though, there are quite a few poor teams this season. That said, a decent manager and a few good players would certainly help come january... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTONS EAST SIDE Posted 7 October, 2009 Share Posted 7 October, 2009 (edited) massive investment of funds in the offing, training ground to start, large transfer fund available for January, and at last we get our real billionaires.Sorry but the Times & Sun quote him as being a MULTI- millionaire, not a Billionaire!!! Sorry were still richer than you! :smt040 And a $ billionaire(yours), is less than a £ billionaire(ours). Edited 7 October, 2009 by SOTONS EAST SIDE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 7 October, 2009 Share Posted 7 October, 2009 Something is not "right" with all this. SAF sold his shares for £0 after having them for 40 days. People don't become rich in business doing things like that. Also no matter how much money the new owner puts into the club he will never make it back let alone a profit. Man City and Chelsea can support high crowds and already have large stadia. Pompey have huge debts, a poor stadium and poor attendances 3k below a 20k capacity and a team requiring massive investment just to get 17th. How this will ever turn into a return on investment I don't know. It will take £50 million just to get them safe from administration problems and debt clearance, add to that the cost of a new stadium upwards of £50m, £9m for training complex and we haven't even started on the team yet. Is it worth it for the money 17,000 fans will bring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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