PFA seek answer to Pompey wages woe
PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor
Gordon Taylor has revealed how Pompey are exploring the forwarding of parachute payments in a bid to pay their players.
All staff at the club are yet to receive their wages for January.
As it stands, that will remain the case until a validation order is granted by the courts to unfreeze the club account.
In the meantime, the Professional Footballers Association and representative Nick Cusack are in constant touch with the Blues’ players and the club.
Taylor, the union’s chief executive, admits parachute payments are being considered as an option.
The Blues are scheduled to receive windfalls of £16m over the next two years as part of the financial package following relegation from the Premier League.
And Taylor is hopeful a solution can soon be found.
He said: ‘At the moment we are staying in touch with the club to get some funds in and look to pay the players.
‘Our representative Nick Cusack is continuing talks with all parties to try to resolve it as best we can.
‘We are looking for money revenue due to the club to try to get money owed them.
‘I don’t want to go into the current circumstances but that would be parachute payments and things like that.
‘The club has been through the mangle but the problem is a little bit inherited from the past.
‘This has been inherited difficulties coming from not the best financial propriety from the past.’
Meanwhile, Taylor has praised the players as they continue to give their all for the club.
He added: ‘They have been absolutely brilliant.
‘It has not been the best of times for a while now but it never ceases to amaze me how players are prepared to knuckle down.’
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tobermory
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 07:10 AMPost138(Cornishpastit) I am glad so many people have the same feelings as me,and of course you are right.We both were lucky to have seen the really good years.I will never forget Dickinson,Scoular Harris Froggat ,Philips,Walsh ,Whittingham to name but a few. Nowadays I live in Germany and cant get to Fratton as much as I would like but I follow every match on the net. I hope something will get sorted out but am not very confident. Like youI am getting on in years now and will probably be dead and buried before we get back where we belong. If ever. I wish the players and staff good luck and feel sorry for Messers Awford Whittingham Gray and most of all Appy. The best manager Pompey have had in years,the man has great dignity.
library
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:32 PMRe post 142 I also moved with my family to Portsmouth, North End, in 1948 and like you went to Fratton Park every week if not the first team then the reserves and even to the "A" team matches. My heroes were Peter Harris and Duggie Reid. Like you I also live away but did actually get a ticket to be in the Fratton end against Hull only to be beaten by the weather, a missed match I will always regret. Ever hopeful ! PUP
davidkw72
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:07 PMMy family moved to Portsmouth in 1948, when I was eight, and straightaway Fratton Park became my 'home' every other Saturday - Jimmy Dickenson and Jackie Froggatt were my heroes; I played football at school with Pat Neil. So like cornishpastit and tobormory I'll be devastated without Pompey to support, even though I left Portsmouth decades ago. Following every match on computer is all I can do, but it means the world to me. The most fervent football fans in the country surelydeserve help for their club. The Inland Revenue will be cutting off the hand that feeds it by effectively closing down the club, so losing any future revenue. The Championship's schedules will be a shambles for the rest of the year. All for a measly £1.8m - it's chicken feed for this massive industry. Good luck 'Appy and all the players who are showing such great spirit, and may common-sense prevail.
Beer Can
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 08:31 PMHow the hell does advancing Parachute Payments help us? Typical of the union man, trying to greedily grab the parachute payments to pay the players. If this happens we won;t be able to contribute anything to the last CVA, which will open up a whole new can of worms. It won't help us pay off HMRC. If they advance this, it means that any prospective purchaser will just have to cough up more to buy the club, as they'll have to find more to service the last CVA.
Pompey Dave from Devizes Wilts
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 08:13 PMh block @137 excellant post
Dario Silva
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 08:03 PM@138 Agree with your comment about the Council.
cornishpastit
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 07:49 PMPost 130 (tobermorey) I have supported Pompey since 1948 since i was 7yrs old - and like you I think this could be the end. I will be dead and buried by the time Pompey get back in the lower leagues - thank God I've seen the good times - This is a kick in the teeth for us 'oldies' and a long wait for the boys and girls around 7yrs now. I think Portsmouth City Council should hang their heads in shame. Doubt if I get a reply to this post.
h block
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 07:35 PMThe FA never got you into this mess and I can assure you from past experience of supporting Brighton that they wont get you out of it either. They`ll pussyfoot around unless you do what we did and get dirty. A few pitch invasions followed by an abandonment might make them get their act together. You`ll have to take the relegation that might follow with administration and a points deduction but the the lovely thought that you`ll actually feel clean afterwards is all the encouragement that you should need. Good luck and remember there is a way back.
Cecil Pitt
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 07:18 PM@133 scottiedoo The FA got us into this mess?.............WOW !!.. And there was me labouring under the misapprehension that it had something to do with Mandaric offloading us onto the frontman for a family firm that was using us along with various other sports concerns and retail businesses to launder a huge amount of cash through ridiculously generous contracts , bonuses,and transfer deals, while paying scant regard to good business practice and neglecting to paythe household bills, and thus running up a colossal debt ...........can't think where i got that from....so it was all down to the FA. !...what do you know.............
alfonso
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 07:03 PMIt is a sad, sad fact of life that if the club folds on 20 Feb (or whenever) then that is it. Blueshirt et al have put the predicament so eloquently and others have already asked why the Council, government, FA or FL should even consider bailing out Pompey. It's all getting rather tedious now. If the club folds I'll be devastated - if it can find a way to get out of this quagmire of debt, deceit and mismanagement then not only will I be totally amazed, I'll be ecstatic. Alas, I fear the worst and after much soul-searching I will now admit - it's only Pompey as I know it or nothing. There's no Plan B that could tempt me.
Cecil Pitt
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 06:48 PM@blue lagoon 131 sadly mate...it does.........
scottiedoo37
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 06:30 PMOk so the PFA want to sort out this mess, so why dont they, i mean why dont they goto the F.A and say look pompey are owed 16million over next two years, so why not give pompey 2 million now, or pay direct to HMRC, so that be the tax bill cleared, and also pompey will have there account unfrozen, so players and staff can all get paid, after all the FA should be helping pompey big time, after all they got pompey in this mess with the F&PT, then we can all go from there, then BC wont have to put club into admim. Come on F.A Sort it out,
PFC4Life
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 06:02 PMAnd a good post blueshirt, Passion for the club!
bluelagoon
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 06:02 PM126 Cecil Pitt - Taylor "is like a bailliff looking for granny's rainy day money in the biscuit tin..." - Of course. He's doorstepping PFC and telling them he's sending his agents direct to get the PL to cough up cash ... so that his clients, the overpaid mercenaries, can get paid. The rainy day tin was for the CVA - but Taylor wants to borrow from that, why bother about paying the creditors their 20p in the £, Taylor represents that super-race, the "football creditors", who demand and get every penny of their millions. --- Makes you want to do something else on a Saturday afternoon.
tobermory
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 06:02 PMBlueshirt we seem to be of the same vintage and your posts 124 and 125 are correct they are my feelings entirely. I have supported Pompey since 1948 but this time I really do think its the end.What makes me sad is the silence from the club,why are we told nothing to me its the ultimate in ignorance.The only person that may be happy with this mess is my wife who will maybe see more of me on a Saturday. For me its Pompey or nothing,I will not contemplate supporting any other team.
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