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It's hardly even a gambit: they are looking at the club and saying it just isn't worth anything like £30m-£35m if they then have to pay an extra £20m for the stadium. It feels from the Q statement that they may be struggling to get a formal bid above the level needed to keep our golden ticket, let alone avoid the 15 point penalty. 
Mel Morris needs to understand that he isn't playing poker here, and this isn't a tough business negotiation. This is a rescue mission. Unless he gifts the stadium and settles his debts with MSD himself, it seems very likely a viable sale won't be possible. Derby will be liquidated.
If he genuinely can't afford that, we are in very deep trouble. If he can - but doesn't do it - then he should at least be aware that he will be remembered by a city as the man who killed their football club. And no, this is not a request for charity. It is a request that he settles his bill before he leaves the table.
 

Because Ashley is clearly not a bidder. Reading between the lines of that statement it would suggest Ashley is doing the Ashley thing... hanging around the fringes and lobbing in hand grenades until the final, final moment. Then he either tops the bid pot or flies off to buzz around the next pile of stinking dog doo that takes his interest.

Wonder what this Friday's deadline is going to be?
We've had a bid deadline; a best bid deadline and a final bid deadline so far.... what's left?
And can anyone else hear that awful screeching sound that has persisted all week? Sounds like someone scraping a barrel...??

Wonder what this Friday's deadline is going to be?
We've had a bid deadline; a best bid deadline and a final bid deadline so far.... what's left?
And can anyone else hear that awful screeching sound that has persisted all week? Sounds like someone scraping a barrel...??

The more this goes on, it looks like most of the interested buyers only want to buy the stadium and the football club that plays there is just a bolt on.

The more this goes on, it looks like most of the interested buyers only want to buy the stadium and the football club that plays there is just a bolt on.

The more this goes on, it looks like most of the interested buyers only want to buy the stadium and the football club that plays there is just a bolt on.

The more this goes on, it looks like most of the interested buyers only want to buy the stadium and the football club that plays there is just a bolt on.

If I were in Mel's shoes (and assuming he has the skin of a rhino) I'd be looking to buy the club back out of admin for £30m.

But he wouldn't be gifting it to 'the club'; he'd be gifting it to the shareholders who will own the club and who could easily be flipping it again in a couple of years for millions of profit.
If he wanted to be philanthropic, he'd be better gifting it to a community trust - a bit like the Chelsea Pitch Owners set-up.

But he wouldn't be gifting it to 'the club'; he'd be gifting it to the shareholders who will own the club and who could easily be flipping it again in a couple of years for millions of profit.
If he wanted to be philanthropic, he'd be better gifting it to a community trust - a bit like the Chelsea Pitch Owners set-up.

But he wouldn't be gifting it to 'the club'; he'd be gifting it to the shareholders who will own the club and who could easily be flipping it again in a couple of years for millions of profit.
If he wanted to be philanthropic, he'd be better gifting it to a community trust - a bit like the Chelsea Pitch Owners set-up.

If I were in Mel's shoes (and assuming he has the skin of a rhino) I'd be looking to buy the club back out of admin for £30m.

Expect to start hearing the usual jungle drums beating their rhythm of doom at about 6pm on Thursday. That gives the EFL Board members enough time to have had a pee following the four-hour round-the-table chinwag and get on the phone to Mr Nixon.

Looks like Oswald Moseley? Must have been attracted by our old black shirt away kit.

Looks like Oswald Moseley? Must have been attracted by our old black shirt away kit.

Looks like Oswald Moseley? Must have been attracted by our old black shirt away kit.

Looks like Oswald Moseley? Must have been attracted by our old black shirt away kit.

Looks like Oswald Moseley? Must have been attracted by our old black shirt away kit.

In actual fact, EFL Board Meetings are always scheduled for the last Thursday of the month, so this is probably true.
Does this mean an announcement on April 1st??... perfectly scripted if that is the case!

I suspect Quantuma themselves admit they have not got every call they have made right, but that in no-way equates to mis-management.
A small team of non-industry specific business professionals were parachuted in to a high-profile, distressed and financially compromised business and are being castigated for not turning it around in six months.
It's like blaming Road Traffic Officers for the delay to your journey.... and not the 10-vehicle pile-up they are slowing down the traffic to avoid!
 

I suspect Quantuma themselves admit they have not got every call they have made right, but that in no-way equates to mis-management.
A small team of non-industry specific business professionals were parachuted in to a high-profile, distressed and financially compromised business and are being castigated for not turning it around in six months.
It's like blaming Road Traffic Officers for the delay to your journey.... and not the 10-vehicle pile-up they are slowing down the traffic to avoid!
 

I suspect Quantuma themselves admit they have not got every call they have made right, but that in no-way equates to mis-management.
A small team of non-industry specific business professionals were parachuted in to a high-profile, distressed and financially compromised business and are being castigated for not turning it around in six months.
It's like blaming Road Traffic Officers for the delay to your journey.... and not the 10-vehicle pile-up they are slowing down the traffic to avoid!
 

I suspect Quantuma themselves admit they have not got every call they have made right, but that in no-way equates to mis-management.
A small team of non-industry specific business professionals were parachuted in to a high-profile, distressed and financially compromised business and are being castigated for not turning it around in six months.
It's like blaming Road Traffic Officers for the delay to your journey.... and not the 10-vehicle pile-up they are slowing down the traffic to avoid!
 

I think people have the wrong idea about the phoenix club option. 
It won't be fan owned or fan instituted. There won't be different versions - they would be rival new clubs.
What will happen is The Derby County Football Club Ltd will go into liquidation. The new owner will buy the name 'Derby County Football Club' and all the associated trade marks and rights. They will then be owned by a new company who will run a team which will be called Derby County Football Club, have the same badge and be indistinguishable from the existing club. The new club will be entirely free of all the liabilities of the old.
The new owners will have to negotiate a league to play in and a stadium and training ground to use. The noises indicate League 2 is the most likely league. It would be surprising if some deal couldn't be stuck for Moor Farm and Pride Park.
Then there's the small matter of needing a squad. All the existing players would have been either released or had their registrations sold by the EFL to pay off the footballing debts. I suspect a few of the released players would sign for the Phoenix club, but we'd still need 95% of a new squad.
It would still be Derby County in sight, sound and feel though. The interesting question is, would we still count as founder members of the league? Do Accrington Stanley? I think we would if we told everyone we were. 
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