Initially my reaction was ‘what a load of bull’, but considering the respective positions Sven and Pompey find themselves in; this could make perfect sense.
Sven is having a rough time and may well be sacked as coach of Mexico if the USA beat them in the upcoming match. Some sources suggest he’s unhappy and could even walk away. But like a high class hooker, Sven doesn’t come cheap. It seems fairly certain though, that Pompey have a few million to spare, a few million to gamble with to avoid the spectre of relegation and selling nightmare that would bring.
Perhaps Pompey will offer Sven a package and bonus for avoiding relegation that adds up to 3 or 4 million pounds if he’s successful. If he accepts it will be a short term contract, renewable in the summer. We’d be talking £100k to £250k a game; what you’d expect to pay a prime time slut like Sven, who flitters from one nectar laden flower to the next, like football’s loosest butterfly. Rumours abound that Pini Zharvi was furious with Adams for not sanctioning the signing of Dos Santos on fitness grounds. Perhaps that’s true and seeped into Sach’s pores, who desperate to sell the club has thought – s0d it, I’ll use that money as an incentive for a decent manager, we must stay up.
So that gives us Sven earning loads of money and escaping his Mexico hell & Pompey feeling much better about staying up. But it might be even cuter than that. Sacha may well feel that with Sven at the helm, not only does he safeguard the Premiership status necessary to achieve a summer sale – he actually raises the club’s profile and offers for sale, a Premiership team with a world class manager in situ. Hence the short term contract for Sven. The WIIFM for Sven would be not only millions for survival, but the chance to stay on if a sugardaddy comes in. Sure any consortium will have their own ideas about a manager when they come in, but if Sven kept us up and we were sold, do you really think he wouldn’t get the chance to start the next chapter and spaf some cash? City have given Hughes a crack of the whip, you can bet your @rse that whoever bought Pompey, their status saved by Sven, would give him a chance in the longer term.
If we went down, Sven simply claims he’s not a miracle worker, didn’t get to sign anyone, flaps his wings and takes his open crotch to another cash cow. If we stay up he enhances his reputation and either gets a plum european job or a chance to spaf loads of money at a newly taken over Pompey.
Of course this is all speculation and extrapolation; and it has Zharvi’s name throught it like a stick of rock, but Sven coming to Pompey most definately isn’t as far fetched as it first seemed. For what it’s worth I don’t think it will take a brilliant manager to keep us up. I think the majority of names mentioned would be successful to this extent, including Sven, though I most want Bilic. But if the sex fiend Swede is in any way a key or catalyst to a successful takeover, he is surely the best option?
Also, did it not strike anyone as odd that the club has announced it’s in no rush to appoint a manager over the next couple of weeks? Here we are, sliding towards the Premiership trapdoor with 15 games to go and the club comes out with that! It’s not as if Adams was sacked for gross misconduct and we’re sitting pretty in the top half of the table. Everyone knows we’re in trouble, everyone knows Sacha’s bricking it. In my opinion that statement was designed purely to give somebody the time and space to manoevre, and I’m increasingly thinking that person is Sven.
