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    Ghost of Clough reacted to richinspain in El DerbyCo   
    Excellent translation of the text, however like many transcripts of interviews it is very limited to what it quotes.
    In the interview he gives an outline of his background:
    His father owned Logroñés football club when he was very young and so being around a football club is normal for him.
    He moved to Indonesia when he was 16 for family business, and as he knew the trainer of the national boxing team ( his grandfather was Spanish boxing champion and the trainer also Spanish) he took up the sport to get himself fit. He went on to make 5 professional fights, winning all of them by KO and becoming champion of Indonesia. He became a father at 21 and as he felt that he couldn't give the sport 100% decided to finish.
    He moved into the family business in Indonesia of real estate, mainly construction of villas in Bali after studying business.
    If he were to buy a club for love it would be Logroñés, but the opportunity to buy DCFC was too interesting to pass up. If however he could buy any club in the world it would be Atlético Madrid.
    He spoke to Ramon Calderon recently and they talked about the tie in the European Cup.
    The interviewers then asked about the money side of the deal and although he didn't want to give out the numbers for buying the club he did leave them almost speechless with the amount of money in the English game. He is however buying the club with the help of partners he has in a holding.
    When asked about the reception he had received from fans he was delighted with the response, although he would have understood if they had said "who's this youngster who has come here and bought our club? What are his intentions?" (@DarkFruitsRam7 and @Millenniumram, your tweets didn't reach him).
    They then spoke about Rooney, basically saying what was said in the transcript.
    "Is there a Spanish player that you would like to take to Derby County?" was then asked to which he answered Fernando Llorente. After the incredulation of the interwiewers he did say that he had not spoken to Llorente, but that as someone from his region and someone he admires very much he is "the type of player, for his experience and what he would bring" that he would like to sign, but at this moment the club doesn't have that kind of money. However he would be his dream signing.

     
    That more or less is the interview. What would I say are my feelings after listening? He is a young man who has known nothing but success. He always gives 100% to whatever he does. He's not in this on his own, but although he didn't say who the other backers are (in no way did he avoid the very brief question, he just didn't elaborate)  or how much input in the day to day running they will have I got the impression that he will be the one running us. He does seem to want nothing but success and does understand how much it could cost. If he has half the success he has had up to now and his ambition would suggest then we're in for quite some ride.
    My worries? He may just be too enthusiastic, and although as I said he appears to know the pitfalls, he does seem to drop things when he feels he can't give 100% (take his promising boxing career).
    I haven't been to an amusement park in almost 15 years, it looks as though I'm about to go on the biggest and newest there is around.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Ken Tram in El DerbyCo   
    Similar applies to those who say we have no chance of playoffs next season in my opinion. Just look at Reading and Barnsley.
    Take Reading for example. They finished just 7 points outside the bottom 3. They have pretty much the same squad as last year. Signed a 25 year old on a free from Shrewsbury and got 3 loans in - 2 squad players and a backup player. However, that year of struggle meant their promising youngsters gained vital experience. 5 of their 12 most used players this season came through their academy and are only in their very early 20's. Sounds somewhat familiar to our situation?
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Grimbeard in El DerbyCo   
    Similar applies to those who say we have no chance of playoffs next season in my opinion. Just look at Reading and Barnsley.
    Take Reading for example. They finished just 7 points outside the bottom 3. They have pretty much the same squad as last year. Signed a 25 year old on a free from Shrewsbury and got 3 loans in - 2 squad players and a backup player. However, that year of struggle meant their promising youngsters gained vital experience. 5 of their 12 most used players this season came through their academy and are only in their very early 20's. Sounds somewhat familiar to our situation?
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from mwram1973 in El DerbyCo   
    Iirc, we went into the Lampard season with this team in mind:
    Carson
    Wisdom   Keogh   Davies   Malone
    Bryson   Ledley   Mount
    Wilson                     Lawrence
    Waghorn/Marriott
    Given that's just a LB, CM, RW and CF away from what we had under Rowett, it wasn't exactly the massive turnover implied by "this team, apart from a few will not be playing next season". In fact, Fozzy reclaimed his starting spot until he also picked up another serious injury.
    Obviously, Bogle broke through, Davies picked up a serious injury and replaced by Tomori, but the rest of the team didn't change too much. Cole, Jozefzoon, Evans, Holmes were all squad players so don't really come in to it.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from DCFC1388 in El DerbyCo   
    Similar applies to those who say we have no chance of playoffs next season in my opinion. Just look at Reading and Barnsley.
    Take Reading for example. They finished just 7 points outside the bottom 3. They have pretty much the same squad as last year. Signed a 25 year old on a free from Shrewsbury and got 3 loans in - 2 squad players and a backup player. However, that year of struggle meant their promising youngsters gained vital experience. 5 of their 12 most used players this season came through their academy and are only in their very early 20's. Sounds somewhat familiar to our situation?
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    Ghost of Clough reacted to Ambitious in El DerbyCo   
    I'm I reading too much into this, because an Amazon documentary would certainly be more Sunderland than Man City! 
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Van der MoodHoover in El DerbyCo   
    Or very large bits of paper with 'Plans' written on the front
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    Ghost of Clough reacted to Van der MoodHoover in El DerbyCo   
    Now THAT might just mean plans written in a very large font, on big bits of paper.... ?
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Premier ram in El DerbyCo   
    What would you have liked him to say instead?
    "The eventual goal is to scrape PL survival every year like Newcastle and Palace"
    "The eventual goal is to fluke a promotion"
    "The eventual goal is to reach the playoffs"
    The eventual goal is to stay in the Championship"
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from angieram in El DerbyCo   
    It certainly would. I should clarify what I meant by very early 20's. Those 5 players are: Rinomhota (23), Richards (23), McIntyre (22), Holmes (21) and Olise (19). All have featured for at least 1735 minutes this season (all competitions).
     
    Whilst on the subject of academies. This will be the second year in a row that a club without a Cat 1 academy has failed to stay up in the PL - Watford (2) and Bournemouth (3) the only sides last season, and Sheff Utd (2) this season who are not Cat 1.
    There's a very strong correlation between academy status and league position, with Brentford and Sunderland the obvious outliers.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Ramarena in El DerbyCo   
    Similar applies to those who say we have no chance of playoffs next season in my opinion. Just look at Reading and Barnsley.
    Take Reading for example. They finished just 7 points outside the bottom 3. They have pretty much the same squad as last year. Signed a 25 year old on a free from Shrewsbury and got 3 loans in - 2 squad players and a backup player. However, that year of struggle meant their promising youngsters gained vital experience. 5 of their 12 most used players this season came through their academy and are only in their very early 20's. Sounds somewhat familiar to our situation?
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Rammy03 in El DerbyCo   
    Similar applies to those who say we have no chance of playoffs next season in my opinion. Just look at Reading and Barnsley.
    Take Reading for example. They finished just 7 points outside the bottom 3. They have pretty much the same squad as last year. Signed a 25 year old on a free from Shrewsbury and got 3 loans in - 2 squad players and a backup player. However, that year of struggle meant their promising youngsters gained vital experience. 5 of their 12 most used players this season came through their academy and are only in their very early 20's. Sounds somewhat familiar to our situation?
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from angieram in El DerbyCo   
    Similar applies to those who say we have no chance of playoffs next season in my opinion. Just look at Reading and Barnsley.
    Take Reading for example. They finished just 7 points outside the bottom 3. They have pretty much the same squad as last year. Signed a 25 year old on a free from Shrewsbury and got 3 loans in - 2 squad players and a backup player. However, that year of struggle meant their promising youngsters gained vital experience. 5 of their 12 most used players this season came through their academy and are only in their very early 20's. Sounds somewhat familiar to our situation?
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    Ghost of Clough reacted to angieram in El DerbyCo   
    Just to add, it is worth listening to the Radio Derby interview in full rather than reading this typical BBC website clickbait article, which takes this comment completely out of context and writes the short piece around that. 
    Presumably because the "journalist" who wrote it (I use the term loosely) knew exactly how people would react.
    The whole interview is much more balanced and is quite a good listen. 
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    Ghost of Clough reacted to angieram in El DerbyCo   
    I think it's no worse him having ambition than the opposite,  where you seem to delight in  having us relegated before we actually are.
    Either might happen, but what you talk about says more about the individual than the circumstance. 
     
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from mwram1973 in El DerbyCo   
    What would you have liked him to say instead?
    "The eventual goal is to scrape PL survival every year like Newcastle and Palace"
    "The eventual goal is to fluke a promotion"
    "The eventual goal is to reach the playoffs"
    The eventual goal is to stay in the Championship"
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Derby4Me in El DerbyCo   
    What would you have liked him to say instead?
    "The eventual goal is to scrape PL survival every year like Newcastle and Palace"
    "The eventual goal is to fluke a promotion"
    "The eventual goal is to reach the playoffs"
    The eventual goal is to stay in the Championship"
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Carl Sagan in El DerbyCo   
    What would you have liked him to say instead?
    "The eventual goal is to scrape PL survival every year like Newcastle and Palace"
    "The eventual goal is to fluke a promotion"
    "The eventual goal is to reach the playoffs"
    The eventual goal is to stay in the Championship"
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    Ghost of Clough reacted to RadioactiveWaste in El DerbyCo   
    Oh this.
    The prospect gets me dizzy.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from MuespachRam in Lee Buchanan   
    Does Forsyth need to reinvent himself as a forward then?
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Carnero in El DerbyCo   
    What would you have liked him to say instead?
    "The eventual goal is to scrape PL survival every year like Newcastle and Palace"
    "The eventual goal is to fluke a promotion"
    "The eventual goal is to reach the playoffs"
    The eventual goal is to stay in the Championship"
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Reggie Greenwood in El DerbyCo   
    What would you have liked him to say instead?
    "The eventual goal is to scrape PL survival every year like Newcastle and Palace"
    "The eventual goal is to fluke a promotion"
    "The eventual goal is to reach the playoffs"
    The eventual goal is to stay in the Championship"
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from ramit in El DerbyCo   
    What would you have liked him to say instead?
    "The eventual goal is to scrape PL survival every year like Newcastle and Palace"
    "The eventual goal is to fluke a promotion"
    "The eventual goal is to reach the playoffs"
    The eventual goal is to stay in the Championship"
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from RadioactiveWaste in El DerbyCo   
    What would you have liked him to say instead?
    "The eventual goal is to scrape PL survival every year like Newcastle and Palace"
    "The eventual goal is to fluke a promotion"
    "The eventual goal is to reach the playoffs"
    The eventual goal is to stay in the Championship"
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    Ghost of Clough reacted to ramit in El DerbyCo   
    Everyone knows you need to plan big to get medium.  i support it, i like dreamers
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