Writer: pompeyrug 
Date:Thursday July 30 2009
Time: 7:39AM
Nikola Kalinic does not look like he will be joining Pompey?
The Croatian striker was hotly tipped to come to Fratton, with him also tipped for success in the premier league by his national manager and former Croatian internationals but the 21-year-olds move appears to have fallen through due to transfer terms not being agreed.
Kalinic is believed to have agreed to a deal, agreed terms and a fee agreed with Hajduk Split but it seems that they wanted most, or the full £5.5m transfer fee upfront - but this was not something that we could agree to so, at this point in time the deal is off!
In all fairness, although - and in my opinion wrongly so - so many transfers these days do not involve most/full payments upfront it is Split's right to demand this, and in my thinking this is how transfers should be done, I feel clubs should pay most/all money up front or they do not sign a player...
Another one bites the dust then it seems - disappointing, as I was genuinely excited by this potential signing, but what can you do! It seems this deal is dead, well the media think it is, but you never know?
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as i see it we have been saved from administration, and i seriously think this was pretty damn close - other issues need sorting out, but what can we do. it would be helpful if the club told us more, but how would openly coming out and saying 'were in the *****' help, any other 'assets' that could then be sold wouldnt be sold for what we wanted, they would be sold for what people wanted to pay as the would know 'officially' we have to sell for what we can get.
all in all, like i have said before, in many ways there is no point in finger pointing, we cannot undo what is done but there is also no point, in my thinking, writing off what the future could bring before it does - once SAF is officially the owner 100% of the club lets see what he does, until he is i cannot see we can cast too much judgement over him and to be fair 'why' would he get so heavily involved if he was not serious? ive always felt that he wouldnt be around for the long term as ive felt he was 'brokering' a deal a la citeh...
as for kranjcar - you know that i see parts of what you say as being true chixy, i want to argue for kranjcar but feel i cannot as i agree with parts of what you are saying, altho i guess it is better than you winning a trial be default, so 'if' no one else is prepared to fight against you by the end of the day i guess i will have to have a good...i will go and revive that thread now :-)