Portsmouth FC - what's going to happen?

[E38Ross]

Will they be getting deducted 10 points this season? will they still be in the football league next season?

based on recent form, if they don't get deducted 10 points, they may well end up staying up, but my understanding is then they'd be chucked out of the football league??

cheers

[SaintsPaul]

If they don't come out of administration before the end of the final game this season then the club has gone.

If they stay up and have come out of admin they will be deducted 10 points and be relegated.

If they are already relegated and have come out of admin it will be down to the football league to sort out a punishment ( minus 30 next season would be nice ).

At the end of the day they have robbed and cheated for over 2 years now so deserve to be wound up.

[E38Ross]

SaintsPaul said:

If they don't come out of administration before the end of the final game this season then the club has gone.

If they stay up and have come out of admin they will be deducted 10 points and be relegated.

If they are already relegated and have come out of admin it will be down to the football league to sort out a punishment ( minus 30 next season would be nice ).

At the end of the day they have robbed and cheated for over 2 years now so deserve to be wound up.

thanks Paul, interesting. Either way, looks like they're going down....unless they pull 10 points clear!

[The jiffle king]

This article gives some information which might help
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22043819

Not sure which way this is going to go, but in reality, many creditors are not going to get back much %wise

[Fittster]

Currently we have Bury and Bolton on the edge of going bust. Perhaps naively I think the solution to a lot of the problems smaller clubs face would be fan ownership.

As I recall Portsmouth went through a disastrous set of owners which left the club in a horrible state, eventually the club is bought by a supporters trust who turned things around and then for some reason the fans sold the club to another businessman with no connection to the club.

Why didn't Portsmouth fans want to continue to own the club rather than put their faith in some remote business man?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/may/22/p...

[thanetspeedshop]

PST sold up as they didn't have the money to take the club forward or to invest in necessary stadium repairs. Two years on and new owners seem good to their word so far. PUP

[Brave Fart]

Fittster said:

Why didn't Portsmouth fans want to continue to own the club rather than put their faith in some remote business man?

Because if we had not sold to the Eisners, the Old Lady (Fratton Park) would have fallen down, quite literally. The South Stand was being held up by building supports and would have been deemed unsafe, and closed. To repair it cost millions, and Eisner promised £5m cash on takeover to be spent on the ground, which it has been. Money the Supporters Trust would never have been able to raise.
Other promises were made, including a pledge not to relocate the club further than 15 miles away.
There's also a world of difference between a wealthy family with connections to Disney, and Stewart Day (previous Bury owner) raising money from an unregulated lending site (Lendy) and securing it against the club (Gigg Lane).
Eisner has done things properly and I am proud to have him as our owner.
I really fear for Bury, Bolton (and Southend, Oxford, Morecambe to name others). Perhaps the supporter ownership model can work for small clubs; if so, the lower leagues would be all the better for it. The shady owners who gamble with football cubs are a disgrace, and the sooner they (the owners!) vanish, the better.