StarterForTen

19 minutes ago, IncredibleKoosh said:

Wonder if they are waiting for another Feel Good Friday... Kit hasn't been revealed yet either.

Was going to post just this! With first game in Saturday (presumably in the new kit) I can see a launch pic tomorrow introducing our new captain

I think he only made around 20 appearances for the Blades last season and I would suspect he'd not get more game time at Boro, who will be in the promotion mix too. That may point to Wilder knowing he's 'good for the dressing room' from his Sheff Utd days and, if so, that is just the guy we need - as long as he's fit enough to actually play too!

1 minute ago, Ambitious said:

I haven’t seen a single game he’s played, obviously, but can already tell we’re going to fall in love with him and we’re going to have another George Thorne on our hands. 

So he's going to dictate play from the base of the midfield? That's what I call a sweeper-keeper!

Perhaps the 'compensation' is being paid by Buchanan? Would £400k be about the value of a year of his contract in wages (£8k a week)?

Looks like some loophole has allowed him to buy himself out of his contract perhaps.

That said, even if employment law (covering TUPE requirements) allows that, I doubt it would over-rule the FIFA regulations for compensating development costs of players under 23 and the Bremen would pay those on top. He's been an affiliated player for 10 years or so; that has to be worth something, surely.

17 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

Well it could be 600k mate

As six figure sum normal stands for that mate.

A six-figure sum is one made up of six numbers, so anything from £100,000 to £999,999. But you are quite right, it could be £600k. Let's hope so.

4 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

Yes there compensation region of 600k.

I fear you may have slipped in an extra zero on that number B4. More like £60k and add-ons taking it into six figure sum.

Anyone else wondering if the hold up on the training ground (if that is the hold up of course) is because Clowes is a property development company and additional /strengthened covenants have been requested by the landlord?

40 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Christ, at least ask for a keeper and striker too! ?

You mean James Chester Zoo Keeper??

10 minutes ago, Rammy03 said:

It's a shame it really is I thought he could have done big things here

Nice kit mind you.

Not sure what today's excuse will be but it will definitely contain the phrase: 'extremely complex transaction'

3 minutes ago, ClowePow said:

It's likely that additional debts will be generated by the ongoing running of the club. Revenue is unlikely to cover outgoings, without player sales to cover the shortfall, and at the moment, we don't really have much in the way of saleable assets.

Not sure I agree with you on that. For the first time in a decade, the club has the ability to set its outgoings budget to what it wants to be as there is very little forward obligations right now. 

3 minutes ago, CBX1985 said:

Not like CK; DC has skin in the game.   

He’s also trying to get this done in three days, not three months. That is a huge challenge. 

42 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Both Cashin and Thompson have already been offered deals. Just waiting for the EFL to let them go through.

And for them to accept them too...?

I've heard (same source who suggested the pink kit tip a couple of years ago) that Derby's new change kit is in a colour called 'potion'

A Google search for "Umbro Potion" comes up with a few images, including the attached 'Purple Potion' shirt from Brentford's training range last year. 

He's the one who said the home shirt looked like 'a paint brush had been cleaned on it' - would that tie in with that sleeve detail?

4 minutes ago, Ewe Ram said:

Can just feel another hold up coming 

Nah, this is just the noise of the death-rattle of other bids. I would not be surprised if the Stretford story was 'revealed' to John Percy by another bidder's camp.

And Couhig is using the last moment of perceived leverage (ie getting the sale completed before contracts run out) to seemingly twist the knife.

12 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

Then why would we let Roos go to low end of the SPL which is no more than League One? Roos is better than Hamer IMO.
Bizarre letting two keepers go. 
 

What do you mean ‘letting him go’? He’s unemployed in five days time. 

9 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

I can see Lawrence leaving, but I do find in interesting that he hasn’t signed anywhere else yet. Could he have been waiting until the last minute, as you point out the club and the majority of the fans have stood by him, perhaps he’s planning to repay that loyalty ? 

Probably not of course, but I’m full of optimism today 

He can't actually sign until July 1st, though I appreciate deals are often agreed and announced beforehand. Perhaps he's being respectful and doesn't want to announce anything until he's officially left the Club?

I don’t get this hang up on wealth. We’ve had a rich owner; let’s just wish for a good one.

in any case, Delia Smith and Michael Wynn-Jones have a wealth less than a sixth of the Clowes family and they have run Norwich pretty well for the last 25 years. 

league one big games will be scheduled for November/December to give sky a show while the World Cup is on. I expect us to play Sheff Wednesday in that period; probably Ipswich too. 

11 minutes ago, Turk Thrust said:

But doesn’t a TUPE transfer happen when an organisation is transferred from one employer to another? Does that mean that DCFC is the organisation but is transferred to a new employer. Ooh my head hurts

There is a transfer of contractual undertakings when an employer changes. It was brought in to protect workers whose jobs were 'contracted out'. Assuming the Club is sold as a going concern (albeit with compromised debt) the players' employers will not change at all.

In other words, Mel Morris did not employ the players, DCFC Ltd does, and still will.

14 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Telegraph Sport has seen correspondence that shows Ashley's lawyers, RPC, are holding £50m in preparation to complete a takeover of the stricken League One club.

No, no, no - that's not how it's done. Please send those funds to the USA and then back to a European Clearing Bank, then on to lawyer's client account, then they'll be ready.

Have these people never seen Ozarks?

Bloody basics!

This whole TUPE thing; it’s nonsense unless the club gets liquidated. The Administrators are selling the business ‘Derby County Football Club Limited’ as a going concern so the players would not be changing employers - just that the company that employs them has new owners. 

26 minutes ago, Grumpy Git said:

............ says who?

 

AP AA??

So that's Adam Pearson as well? The dream team really is back.

Taxi for Mr Jewell...?

59 minutes ago, CBX1985 said:

This idea of dichotomy is very good for trying to drive a hard bargain but becomes dreadful when you actually negotiate.  It is also a total nonsense that doesn't pass mustard for a second once you think about it.  

I bet that stings...

Perhaps the idiom you're searching for is pass muster?

3 minutes ago, atherstoneram said:

A large crowd doesn't equate to a successful team. 

Bradford City are proving that!