Bare Bones!

Crouch to Fulham, Distin to Villa,and now I here that Madonna has been seen around Fratton Park trying to adopt one or two players - we are slowly bleeding to death. HELP!!!!!!!!!!

I have just looked back on the News link and got thouroughly depressed reading the comments of our supposed Pompey fans, wanting to get refunds on their season tickets and resigned to the fcat trhgat we are already going to be in the fizzy pop league next year. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, thats the great thing about our nation, but why such negativity??? We have lost two 1st teamers only at the moment and yes granted we will probably lose Crouch. The rest is just media s**t as always happens. If the deal falls through then I will be a little concerned, but if as I'm sure will happen it does go through, then lets just see who is brought in. A friend of mine knoiws Crouch and he doesn't want to go anywhere, especially to Sunderland, but he has been told he doesn't feature in Pompey's plans. OK thats fair enough so perhaps, maybe a top striker does and thats whtat we will find out next Friday. I will never stop supporting this club, so whatever league we are in I'll be there PUP.

Sorry just looked back on my spelling, should have checked before I hit submit.

I think Prem survival is the aim every year. Well it should be. To be at the top table again is a fantastic achievement. What we wouldn't have given for a season in the Prem when we were in administration not so long ago. I think that Pompey fans are at their best when there is some adversity to face. We are at our loudest and show some real spirit. The last few years have probably softened us up, and I'm not surprised by the News comments Blarmy. Crouch is on £70k / week. With such a small stadium (which we don't even fill each week, let's be honest) we can't really afford to pay players almost £4m / year. Maybe this is a good rebasing of expectations. Last season was a rude awakening for me, one in which I remembered that we are Pompey and not Man United! I just hope that if we are taken over that this guy doesn't gamble the club's future on a season of glory like Sasha did.

16 players and 3 of them are goalkeepers! So what have we got left GK: Begovic- Above Ashdown as number 2 GK now. Ashdown- Looking for 1st team action, may move on too this window James- has been strangely quiet since his Op Defenders: Crainie - England Under 21 and just not a premiership player Wilson - Up and coming younggster - needs time to prove himself at this level, not 1st team material yet. Distin - off to villa for £3M? Kaboul- with Distin we can at least have a solid central pairing. Hreirdarsson - we nearly lost him! Primus- Player - Ambassador - Team Spiritualist? Midfield Diop - was missed last season Basinas - deserves a chance - played well when allowed to! Mullins- Huffs and puffs but no inspiration to those around him Kranjcar - Last season for Pompey and he's off, Belhadj - Ok can defend as well ;-) just needs to keep his cool! Hughes -Born Survivor the number of contract he has had. Strikers Utaka - mostly Right midfield last when used, next player to Go? Nugent - works hard when not injured! Needs goals, and needs to play up front in a 4-4-2 What can be said, except ill be going to watch the local pre- season friendlies, and take a look at the trialists, Shall wear my replica kit just in case they need to bring a supporter on to make up the numbers;-) Seriously though, Pompey can still put out a team that wouldnt look much different from a starting 11 at the tail end of last season. There is core of players still, which can be built on. what we need is some star quality to replace the quality we have lost last year. We need a defender in every position, a left and right sided midfielder and 2 strikers thats 8 players, so the new administration needs to buy 6 new players and bribe 2 loanees to join us, for Pompey to have any chance of survival this season. that's a fact Mr SAF its no good have plans for the academy, new training ground, a revamped FP, if we are bottom of the table and then relegated, your BP will just go down the drain, I for one dont mind where we are in the table next season, as long as its not in a relegation position. so bringing in players that will ensure our stay in the PL is OK by me, and so far I for one am happy that our wage bill has been reduced, we have sent out a message, and the message is we have got our house in order, and can at last possibly turn a profit. I for 1 am sick of players astronomical wages, Sol Campbell was supposedly on 100K a week, I know a players career is short but he will have earnt my lifetimes income in 4 months, nothing short of obscene when you think of it. so dont anyone give me any crap over this oK, cos player wages make me bitter, I did some maths Sol Cambell wages accounted for 50% all gate receipts in a year. Now that he has gone sure we can reduce ticket prices by 50%, and the club will still be better off. ok fantasy I know, but ifr that was the costs of just 1 player, make you wonder about the total and how easily the club couldl afford to almost give away season tickets, one thig is for sure you would easily fill a 50,000 seater stadiun for every game if season ticket were reduced by 2/3 rds. Anyway going back to the main point above, i anm happy for thi sclub to finish 16th this season as long as :- 1. Tangible evidence that work on revampng the stadium and training ground and academy is visible, - take note Mr Storey, no more spin, we dont want spin from you anymore, we are sick of it. we dont want dreams, we want something real, something we can touch. 2. PFC need to control its own destiny , not finance institutions, we don't want to read the rubbish that the press report or the opposite spin from the club, to later find out what the press said was actually true! 3. Oh and lastly, I don't care which manager is in charge at the start of the season, as long as players are brought in to the club to play in the the natural position of the best skill level, I dont want to see a prima donna player played out of position just to give home a place in the team, i would rather see 10 average outfield players in their natural positions playing above average team football because they actually know how to play in the position they are playing in. Last season was the worst i have ever seen in 15 years of watching Pompey play, so if you have to sell more players because we are overloaded in one position, Do it, but lets have 22 players, 2 natural players in each position. thanks for listening~ Doggo

we spend a reported 7m a year on crouch and distin wages...not including bonus i'm sure they are on... I for one don't mind seeing them go. Distin is a class player but his attitude last season was unforgivable, Crouch is also a great player and always gave this club his all and I will be sad to see him go. But that cuts £4m a year in wages which we can bring 2 or 3 decent players in. Plus hopefully it will stop us using that awful long ball tactic i saw us use last season... Such boring football. Get us some players that can play along the floor. If the rumours are to be believed we may have 3 or 4 free signings coming which will go a long way to beef the team up. Mokoena, Rothen, M'Bami, Lucas Neill (did he resign for West Ham?), plus we've been heavily linked with Marc Antoine Fortune, James McCarthy and Benjani. Plus we are known to have a few trialists at the club, noticeably from Africa and the UAE. Plus there are those flimsy rumours of Belluschi (did he go to portugal?) Ricketts, Chimbonda, Falcao, Darren Bent etc. It's not like we don't have options. I'm not worried in the slightest about next season.

This is the first time I have looked at the internet in over 2 weeks as I am on holiday at the moment in the south of france. I was expecting to read the good news of Pompeys takeover and hopefully a new signing or 2. I am absolutely flabogasted that nothing has happened and that we are still in limbo days away from pre-season. As a former Pompey optimist and life ling supporter, I know have a sense of impending doom. This takeover needs to happen and happen now! We are the laughing stock of the premier league and if anything else goes wrong with this takeover we are gonna be worse of than the scummers in a season or 2 to come. Pull your finger out Dr DooDah. And Peter storie needs to stop all these transfers away from the club and our squad is becoming thinner than his comb over! Play up Pompey!

The document ' Pompey - New Era' by Mr SAF has really got me worried, I did a Google on it to see if I could find it, what I found was that New Era are a specialist property development firm in Portsmouth, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Distin as club captain? :/ Not the guy I'd like to see lead our club....but maybe it'll be just thing he needs to buckle down and give 100% and keep his mouth shut.

I have heard a rumour on good authority that we are looking at Elano and Micah Richards. Now there's two players who would add value to the team and gives us a defender and a midfielder, just need a winger and a couple of decent strikers and hey we got ourselves a cracking team again.

distin as club captian? nope, not for me he isnt the right candidate to do this - not on last seasons form on and off the pitch...

doggo like chixy says a fine comment, and what a way to introduce yourself - could i take this and maybe use as an article? it would be worth giving it this exposure, right?

Pompey have 23 contracted players including Peter Crouch. Current Total Player Market Value £61.4M Which Make Pompeys remaining Squad value the 12th most valuable squad in the Premier League. Full details On the market value and Contract detail of each player in the premier league can be found here http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/verein/1020/portsmouth-fc/uebersicht/startseite.html This should open a few eyes and make you think how come with al the megastars we had last season we performed so poorly. In MY Own Opinion I can understand why we are getting rid of most of the players, the players themselves di not perform to the market Value so they had to be got rid off, simple business. Also with the 23 contracted player we have we should still be Mid table,

doggo - last season, without a doubt, we underperformed. This season, I don't expect to still have many of our better players from last year. Or, in other words, I wouldn't say our squad was the 12th best in the league.