Tal Ben Haim on £36,000

The thing is, they could all leave on a free (or outstanding fees that Portsmouth need to make be covered by the buying team) and they could actually go somewhere, play and get paid. Right now, they will end up being out of pocket and with a club no longer in existence.

They are not the only ones to blame but are part of a group of people to be blamed.

The players are not the ones to blame at all. They just accepted the contracts they were given.

The owners and management are the people in charge of the club. They are the people who have ruined the club.

Players who stay, knowing full well the club can no longer pay them what was agreed by previous owners aren't to blame and by staying the club dies and they will end up with nothing themselves, aren't to blame at all?

I am not accusing the players of ruining the club. But if the club does die due to the players wages （as I stated previously there are other options for them), they will be partly to blame.

It's all well and good pointing the finger at the players, but the club were throwing around big contracts left, right and centre. John Utaka was on 70k! Not a bad player, but a huge contract for a club like Pompey.

Whilst it's not the players fault that they were offered big contracts i do have a problem with players who claim to "love" the club but don't do anything to get themselves off the wage bill knowing full well that it could help the club survive and the money saved can go on the wages of support staff who have lost their jobs.

The main blame lies with the people in control at the club over the past decade or so, Peter Storrie and Sacha Gademark have come in for some particularly stiff criticism from Pompey supporters.

Also it's hard to tell fact from fiction in terms of player salaries, one paper (i think it was the daily mail) claimed John Utaka was on 80,000 a week another said it was closer to 70,000, the player himself released a statement denying that he was on that sort of money and said it was just under 30,000 a week, which for a med table Premier League club (which they were when he signed) was fair enough, and for people who may question if he's even worth that, he's just won the french title with Montpellier and has clocked up 43 internatioal appearances,so he can't be to bad.

Yeh isn't a bad player and I believe that he scored the decisive goals that sealed the title? If 30k is the correct figure then that is certainly more acceptable.

This guy seriously needs to sort out that unibrow.

I used to chuckle at Brighton being sponsored by Skint (the record label) when they were close to going under.

All 8 of those players wont be out of work very long if the club goes under.

And in the case of players like Ben Haim, Halford and Norris they could probably get a nice little free transfer fee from whoever they sign for.

personally if I was Ben Haim I would sit it out based purely on the fact that the administrators and fans seem to be doing their best to try and paint him as a pantomime villain for getting paid what the club agreed to pay when they signed him.

Portsmouth will not go bust and disappear. We hear this all the time - clubs on the brink of extinction and all hope is lost. And then, at the very last minute, a buyer comes in and all is well again.
It's just media hype. Portsmouth will still be here in a hundred years' time.