[Timmyedwards]

A son of a Russian Billionaire has confirmed his intrest in becoming joint owner of Portsmouth FC with Milan Manderic. Speculation says that this will give Pompey a £100 million transfer kitty. In my view, if they manage to secure one big signature others will follow. Is this the way English football is going and soon all teams - bar sunderland :P will be competing it out with 23 World Class players. Will it soon be like The Championship (each season everyone starts equal) but with more money and quality involved?

Discuss

[Daz]

Seen this on text this morning. Intresting but then buying a small club and then creating everything from scratch would be good! for example a new stadium would be great for pompey who probablyhave the worst stadium in the Premiership right now.

However i cant (at the moment) see Pompey being anything like Chelsea.

[THFCWoolley]

Originally Posted by Timmyedwards

A son of a Russian Billionaire has confirmed his intrest in becoming joint owner of Portsmouth FC with Milan Manderic. Speculation says that this will give Pompey a £100 million transfer kitty. In my view, if they manage to secure one big signature others will follow. Is this the way English football is going and soon all teams - bar sunderland :P will be competing it out with 23 World Class players. Will it soon be like The Championship (each season everyone starts equal) but with more money and quality involved?

Discuss

It'll never be like that. There are two reasons why these big shots buy clubs, the first is to do with Tax evasion etc etc. The second is to earn a profit. A profit can only be achieved if you get in the top 4 (minimum) with a decent profit slowly building with succeses. With so much money being plugged into football, the trend of disapointment is on the increase. If foriegn folk keep plugging cash into teams, it'll come to the stage where nobody will be making a profit, they'll withdraw their cash from the game and put it into somethign else. And we're left with a crumbling football economy with alot of debt.

So yeah, Pompy suck.

[Daz]

Originally Posted by THFCWoolley

It'll never be like that. There are two reasons why these big shots buy clubs, the first is to do with Tax evasion etc etc. The second is to earn a profit. A profit can only be achieved if you get in the top 4 (minimum) with a decent profit slowly building with succeses. With so much money being plugged into football, the trend of disapointment is on the increase. If foriegn folk keep plugging cash into teams, it'll come to the stage where nobody will be making a profit, they'll withdraw their cash from the game and put it into somethign else. And we're left with a crumbling football economy with alot of debt.

So yeah, Pompy suck.

Intresting views here. I do fear if Roamn Abromivich did decide to leave Chelsa exactly what would be left of them. They couldnt afford their wage budget they would end up getting huge debts.

Im sure the time will come when Abromovich gets board and sees no more fun in the game

[Horse_Bwfc]

Nope. aint going to happen, if they did want to make a good go of it they could do with moving into a proper stadium that can bring in some more revenue. They just dont seem big enough as a club to ever consider being a force like Chelsea, honestly i would like to be prooven wrong but i cant see it.

[The Lord]

I cant see them being 'as' rapid as Chelsea and growing at Chelseas rate but ues could happen over a longer period of time. They will find it hard to attract decent players though.

[Daz]

Originally Posted by The Lord

I cant see them being 'as' rapid as Chelsea and growing at Chelseas rate but ues could happen over a longer period of time. They will find it hard to attract decent players though.

Have to agree but at least the new owner has the chance to build the team from scratch get them a nice stadium etc

[I_hate_woolley]

their only gonna buy second rate players at expensive prices.

i fancie selling them rasiak for a coll 20 mil

[THFCWoolley]

Haha, I'd take 500k.

[I_hate_woolley]

well weve just taken 7.5 mil off them for 3 of our reserves

[Horse_Bwfc]

Yeah i heard about that, Sean Davis, Noe Paramot ... cant remember the other one though. fair to say i dont really recall any of them being first team regulars in the Spurs camp so a good deal fro both partys