Cruel but brilliant!

[Donny B.]

"It's all good and well for Portsmouth to ask for permission to sell outside the transfer window, but surely there's not much point if none of the other clubs have special permission to buy players ... unless it's a glue factory they're in negotiations with" - Charles Brown.

[ronk]

"It's all good and well for Portsmouth to ask for permission to sell outside the transfer window, but surely there's not much point if none of the other clubs have special permission to buy players ... unless it's a glue factory they're in negotiations with" - Charles Brown.

well duh. They don't need permission to sell players, you can do that anytime but the buying team can't play them. They wanted an exemption so other teams could start playing them immediately. He should have stuck with Snoopy.