This club is taking the piss now - just let the fookers go under as a lesson to all Premiershit clubs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8522283.stm

But they wont Scuddermore and the gits at the Premier League will bend over backwards to help them and not ruin the "brand".

FIFA cannot allow this as its clearly unfair to the rest of the league, alos who will buy these players can it only be non-domestic teams? If they can be bought by anyone (e.g. any team in the premier league) it makes a joke of the whole system.

Totally agree they taking the P*** now, why didn't they just make all their player's available during the "window".

I can't see the FA lobbing in 60m snodgers ((c)Mutley). They might help them along until they get relegated and then it's the Football League's problem and they'll have the parachute payments but it's looking like another Leeds United so book your hotels now.

lets hope they take the fifa to court over restriction of trade and get this whole silly window thing abolished.

Go pompey!

Concurring Mr B, but that'll take years.

Could they afford a brief tho' - unless it's a no win no fee gadgie

But they signed a new player in the january window.

they signed 2, both freebies.

Makes no sense, there broke as fook, so whos paying the new guys?

I'm not fully up to date with restriction of trade rules BUT surely as the transfer windows were introduced (or so I think) after talks with the European commission that option seems highly unlikely to succeed.

All Portsmouth need to do to save money is come to an agreement with players to have contracts cancelled then they become free agents and can sign for other clubs, or they can simply sell them to clubs in countries that still have their window open.

Sweden Norway USA/Canada still have open windows.

A.F.C Portsmouth on the horizon.......in the Big Chummers Clothing Hartlepool Sunday League Fourth Division.
Next seasons presentation night might be interesting.

i have read certain articles in the press which basically say its only a matter of time before a player challenges the window as a restriction of trade, so i wonder whether its foundations are built on sand...

Imagine if you could only move companies in summer or one month in winter, there would be a national uproar. I'm pretty sure a decent team of lawyers could get the window abolished if they tried.

I have no knowlege of law or business or anything like that, but i honestly can't see how a company can't be allowed to sell its assets in order to pay its debts and keep it afloat.

its madness.

can they not sell the players now n pocket the cash, then the players can sign in the summer? e.g. smalling to man u style.

Smalling was bought in the "window" and loaned back to Fulham. They can sell as many as they want the buying clubs CAN'T REGISTER them.

it all comes down to chairman trying to live the dream and pushing the boat out to sign players they cant afford in order to win trophies.

It's leeds in 2001 all over again.

Looks like its going to be one rule for the Premier League then:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 522283.stm

Aye, but at least Portsmouth actually did win something!

what happens if nobody wants to buy them,can't be any good if they're bottom of the league

Copy and paste from part of Daily Mirror report today. Would have put a link but didn't think all needed reading.

Crisis-club Portsmouth are have been cleared to sell their players right away - and moved closer to doing a deal with the Premier League to pay their tax bill.

In the latest traumatic and historic twists, the hard-up outfit learnt that they will be able to trade their men outside the transfer window due to a little-known 'club in crisis' rule.

No Premier League team has ever exercised this hardship clause before and Pompey now have a matter of days to find buyers for their players to avoid a winding-up order on March 1.

What the F***??????? Club in crisis rule ????????? does that only apply to Premiership teams as well.

Crystal Palace come to mind sold a player cheap in window, maybe they should have waited.

What about the "little clubs" over the years (no disrespect meant here) like Accrington, Luton Rotherham Darlington could they have not been told of this "CLUB IN CRISIS" rule and allowed to sell outside the windows.

Brian Laws has made a good point: 'Allowing them to get a player out of the door... (assume to another Premiershit club)....and then he goes and scores a goal against us that could be the goal that takes us down - that's ridiculous.'
Right old can of worms......

Have they gone into admin yet and had 10 points took off them!

Well maybe the difference there Mr Fetish is that the premiership is FA and the 'little' clubs you mention are Football League?? It was the League that got burned off ITV Digital and I didn't see the FA jumping in to help, they just laughed and banked another cheque off Rupert Murdoch.

The crunts.

They still wont be able to register them and therefore they won't be able to play if reports are right



Don't have 10 points deducted in Premiership it only 9.

Thought I read that if they do use this 'club in crisis' clause, they get a 9 point deduction.

well I hope they are the first of many

premier league clubs/ wannabe premier league clubs I meant to say