Liverpool big winners if Portsmouth go bust!

• Poignant

  2 Feb 10, 22:21

  

  OBLIVION ... Grant's club are in trouble

  PORTSMOUTH face administration unless they can find a new buyer within the next EIGHT days.

  They came up £2m short as the transfer window closed last night.

  Not even the last-minute, £3.5m sale of keeper Asmir Begovic, 22, to Stoke will be enough to keep them in business.

  Pompey had been banking on selling enough players to pay a £7.5m tax and VAT bill before a High Court winding-up order next Wednesday.

  They raised £9.5m by flogging Begovic and £6m Younes Kaboul to Tottenham. But £4.5m of that is accounted for.

  Now they must find yet another buyer to pay off the tax man or they will become the first Premier League side to take the administration road at the added cost of a nine-point deduction.

  A club insider said: "The end is very close. Unless someone comes in with a load of new cash within the next week, the club will almost certainly go bust. If the winding-up order is upheld, we simply can't pay the Inland Revenue."

  Chief executive Peter Storrie was in desperate negotiations with a number of potential investors last night.

  Premier League chiefs have told Spurs to hand them the £6m fee for Kaboul. They will then deduct £2.7m to meet instalments on four Pompey transfer deals still not paid for. On top of that, the club must pay £1.8m in wages.

  Avram Grant was able to sign Valencia's ex-Everton midfielder Manuel Fernandes, 23, on loan but missed out on Werder Bremen full-back Dusko Tosic.

  Begovic has signed a 3½-year deal at Stoke, snubbing a Chelsea offer to be their No 2.

  Stoke chairman Peter Coates denied Pompey claims Begovic was 'tapped up' before a move to Spurs could progress.

  Coates insisted: "As far as I'm concerned, the transfer was done properly and above board."

• sand king

  2 Feb 10, 22:50

  What the heck is the "administration road"? Means they'll get drop to Championship and get 9 points slashed?

• CKeer

  3 Feb 10, 08:17

  Originally posted by sand king:

  What the heck is the "administration road"? Means they'll get drop to Championship and get 9 points slashed?

  Pompey have now played 22 games with only 15 points and already so close to being the first team to be relegated. Leeds steered its way through administration, albeit receiving a 25 point deduction in the process.

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  4 Feb 10, 19:38

  dam
  
  oo
  
  
  that mean they need to find fast

• sand king

  4 Feb 10, 22:42

  Originally posted by CKeer:

  Pompey have now played 22 games with only 15 points and already so close to being the first team to be relegated. Leeds steered its way through administration, albeit receiving a 25 point deduction in the process.

  But they'll still get to stay in the EPL the rest of the season right? Even if they are the first confirmed religation candidate?

• Poignant

  6 Feb 10, 14:41

  Liverpool big winners if Portsmouth go bust

  Liverpool would be the big winners if Portsmouth go bust this season.

  The Sun says if hard-up Pompey go out of business, they will move into the top four.

  Rock-bottom Portsmouth face a winding-up order next week over unpaid taxes.

  If they cannot carry on, Premier League rules state that all their results would be wiped out and 19 teams would complete the season - with two going down.

  That means West Ham, who have taken four points off Pompey, would now be bottom. Arsenal and Manchester City would also end up as big losers, being docked six points each.

• Y_Shun

  6 Feb 10, 18:45

  wah wtf? :eek:

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  6 Feb 10, 22:42

  wa like that also can

• Rock^Star

  6 Feb 10, 22:55

  then if man u wins tonight? 3 points or no point?

• Poignant

  6 Feb 10, 23:01

  Originally posted by Rock^Star:

  then if man u wins tonight? 3 points or no point?

  at e moment yes

  but if, at any point of time within this season, portsmouth go bust, then no points

• Rooney9

  6 Feb 10, 23:21

  whoever wins portsmouth are being wiped off the points lol.

• I-like-flings(m)

  6 Feb 10, 23:46

  Originally posted by Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1):

  wa like that also can

  
  i was going to say that too when i saw this.. knn... kelong leh like that

• I-like-flings(m)

  6 Feb 10, 23:48

  knn.. this then really call " like that also can" knn....

• Rooney9

  6 Feb 10, 23:54

  what about teams who lost to portsmouth? do they have a match in hand since results are declared null and void. then goals scored for and against portsmouth are also declared null and void as well.

• Rock^Star

  6 Feb 10, 23:58

  i think last time the sun reported that grant has resigned right lol. The sun cannot be trusted la....maybe see their nude models better.

• Chris88110

  7 Feb 10, 00:08

  That is retarded

• Poignant

  7 Feb 10, 00:31

  Originally posted by Rooney9:

  what about teams who lost to portsmouth? do they have a match in hand since results are declared null and void. then goals scored for and against portsmouth are also declared null and void as well.

  no

  total game played will be at 37 instead of the usual 38.

  that's why, it says liverpool will benefit the most

• ASKL!

  7 Feb 10, 04:06

  meaning if portsmouth goes bust.. all the teams that have won against them will drop the points..