MM tells the BBC he might go back to Portsmouth

[bocadillo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/9010934.stm

Former Pompey owner Milan Mandaric is considering a dramatic return to Fratton Park once he leaves his current post as chairman of Leicester City.
According to Mandaric, a Thai-led consortium is now just days away from completing its purchase of the Foxes.
The 72-year-old will then continue as chairman but only on an interim basis.
"I'm still chairman here but there's no secret about how much I love Pompey and I think I have another round left in me," Mandaric told BBC Sport.

 

[homer]

Match made in heaven

 

[Mawsley]

I've checked my piggy bank and I have £3.24 towards his train fair.

 

[Jeff]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/9010934.stm

Former Pompey owner Milan Mandaric is considering a dramatic return to Fratton Park once he leaves his current post as chairman of Leicester City.
According to Mandaric, a Thai-led consortium is now just days away from completing its purchase of the Foxes.
The 72-year-old will then continue as chairman but only on an interim basis.
"I'm still chairman here but there's no secret about how much I love Pompey and I think I have another round left in me," Mandaric told BBC Sport.

Is that a new quote from MM or have they just recycled what he said a few weeks ago?

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Thank **** we can finally get rid of him.

 

[Jeff]

Thank **** we can finally get rid of him.

Do you think the new owners will be any better?

 

[homer]

Thank **** we can finally get rid of him.

Indeed

We much prefer our completely unknown (and in some cases unnamed) dubious far eastern johnnies who have never been involved in English football in their lives

Feck off, Milan, you dirty no-good bastard

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Do you think the new owners will be any better?

Tbh, Jeff, they could well be, but I'm so sick to back teeth of Mandaric now, that I'm just happy to see him going.

 

[camberwell fox]

Tbh, Jeff, they could well be, but I'm so sick to back teeth of Mandaric now, that I'm just happy to see him going.

Better the devil you know and all that.

 

[spionfox]

Better the devil you know and all that.

Exactly. So don't frighten Macky away :icon_bigg

 

[Mawsley]

Do you think the new owners will be any better?

Better? Who knows? Probably not, but there's more than a handful who are sick of the shit soundbites, over-egged claims and empty promises.

Like Thatcher, he wasn't all bad and probably gave the club something it needed at the time, a good kick up the arse...but that was relegation and I don't remember him promising that.

The days of cuddly local owners has gone - the soul of football hasn't been sold, it's been sent out onto a street corner to earn what it can for crack. It's time for the next seedy lowbred to earn my disrespect.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Better? Who knows? Probably not, but there's more than a handful who are sick of the shit soundbites, over-egged claims and empty promises.

Like Thatcher, he wasn't all bad and probably gave the club something it needed at the time, a good kick up the arse...but that was relegation and I don't remember him promising that.

The days of cuddly local owners has gone - the soul of football hasn't been sold, it's been sent out onto a street corner to earn what it can for crack. It's time for the next seedy lowbred to earn my disrespect.

As far as I can tell we are no better off now than when he came in, and we are probably in more debt too.

 

[Dour]

As far as I can tell we are no better off now than when he came in, and we are probably in more debt too.

No probably about it.

 

[Foxes_Trust]

Is that a new quote from MM or have they just recycled what he said a few weeks ago?

It was a new quote, we spoke to the BBC reporter concerned not long after he had come off the phone from Milan this afternoon

 

[Jeff]

It was a new quote, we spoke to the BBC reporter concerned not long after he had come off the phone from Milan this afternoon

So he was just reiterating what he said a few weeks ago. It's still not "new" news.

 

[Dour]

"I think I have another round left in me," Mandaric told BBC Sport.

I haven't even shot the **** yet. Is he prescient?

 

[Foxes_Trust]

So he was just reiterating what he said a few weeks ago. It's still not "new" news.

Agreed, much of what was said during the conversation (alot more than seems to have been published) was perhaps new to a national audience, but had already appeared in the local media a while back

MM was very guarded about the potential of returning to Pompey, but if he is pursuing that, he obviously can't be part of the new consortium as has previously been stated in the media

 

[foxiled]

Better? Who knows? Probably not, but there's more than a handful who are sick of the shit soundbites, over-egged claims and empty promises.

Like Thatcher, he wasn't all bad and probably gave the club something it needed at the time, a good kick up the arse...but that was relegation and I don't remember him promising that.

The days of cuddly local owners has gone - the soul of football hasn't been sold, it's been sent out onto a street corner to earn what it can for crack. It's time for the next seedy lowbred to earn my disrespect.

Eugghh.

 

[Mawsley]

As far as I can tell we are no better off now than when he came in

Sorry?

As much as it pains me to point out what the Romans have done for us:

The club was in abject free-fall and we had a team of morons managed by an utter twat. The drinking club culture was dominant and there was no strength of spirit. There was no spending, the marketing was carried out by an incompetent bitch and (to potential buyers) we were as attractive as a Geordie whore with herpes going out on the lash in the Bigg Market. I, as many, arrived at 3pm annihilated from the pub session to anaesthetise me from the ensuing 90 minutes. Others (pre-shoewaving) simply shouting something ending with 'uuuuuume'. A more miserable time in the history of the club I can't recall.

But, aside from that, we are no better off now than before he came in.:icon_bigg

 

[foxybru]

Oh, oh well said that man!!

Sorry?

As much as it pains me to point out what the Romans have done for us:

The club was in abject free-fall and we had a team of morons managed by an utter twat. The drinking club culture was dominant and there was no strength of spirit. There was no spending, the marketing was carried out by an incompetent bitch and (to potential buyers) we were as attractive as a Geordie whore with herpes going out on the lash in the Bigg Market. I, as many, arrived at 3pm annihilated from the pub session to anaesthetise me from the ensuing 90 minutes. Others (pre-shoewaving) simply shouting something ending with 'uuuuuume'. A more miserable time in the history of the club I can't recall.

But, aside from that, we are no better off now than before he came in.:icon_bigg