Pompey the new Chelski!!

[Silent Bob]

No Thanks! Imagine 11 Foreigner/Mercenaries floating in and out of the team. No connection or interest with Brighton. No youth teamers anywhere in contention. No connection with the locality. £40/50 a game. Er No Thanks!! A local club for local people. Thats the way I like it!

Vicar!

Plus the fact that it would be DIRTY money.

 

[Gritt23]

I have a feeling that this rumour along with the BHA millionare ones will be cobblers.

Could it be that both were sort of true. This guy may be for real at Pompey, while the source of our rumour heard something about a South Coast club, and guessed it was us.

 

[Gritt23]

No Thanks! Imagine 11 Foreigner/Mercenaries floating in and out of the team. No connection or interest with Brighton. No youth teamers anywhere in contention. No connection with the locality. £40/50 a game. Er No Thanks!! A local club for local people. Thats the way I like it!

Vicar!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

We will see more of Redknapp on Meridian now

Somehow me thinks we'll be seeing a lot less, as based on the Chelski model Fabio Cappello will be taking Harry's job at Fratton Park any day now.

 

[Napper]

fking Pompey scum , i hope they come down and rot. can't see it happening now

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Just been speaking to someone that has a lot of knowledge of Pompey (he was the one that dropped the Redknapp-for-manager info before it became public), and apparently the guy was looking at two South Coast clubs, both of which have planning permission for a new ground. What took him to Portsmouth is their plan to rotate the ground 90 degrees and develop housing around it (a £90M+ development) - just like Chelsea Village. The other South Coast club that got a mention was us, but he was put off because of the Falmer challenge (whether or not it comes to anything) and the recent drop down the division. If Pompey get relegated, the cash injection would take them up again. If we got relegated, then we would take longer to stabilise, it would be harder to bring in big players at that level, and the return on investment would be slower. It was felt that Brighton could have potentially a massive fan base (better transport links than Portsmouth peninsula), but as Portsmouth is the 58th fastest growing city in the UK, the injection of other investors' cash was a factor.

Oh well.