Mick

Even Pep.

That's life.

But tell me, who were better owners in the history of Pompey than this lot?

Unless it's just the fact you don't want Americans.

Or perhaps foreigners is more what get up your nose.

I acknowledge the dealing in the summer may not have been the best.

In fact, it wasn't.

I doubt that

Rich Hughes and John Messina would argue with that.

But it's easy in hindsight to say it, of course.

And they will have debated the consequences of all that and the different players involved.

They will have debated that ad nauseum by now.

They'll have sorted out what went wrong and what can be saved from all that, what can be repaired, what might in the end...

turn into a triumph they may have to they may have to ask to direct resources from buying promise to buying experience they may have to acknowledge that they may have to ask for more money and risk the sack

No, no, I didn't mean that, Salas.

They're not going to... That's not going to happen.

But they may have to ask for more money and some may be available, some may be found in one way or another.

I suppose really, Salas, I've finished now, but my greatest fear will be if John Massigno, who is a

let's face it, the sharp end of the Pompey javelin, fell out with Rich Hughes, in whom he is undoubtedly, to some degree, dependent.

That would be awful.