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I’m going to, but waiting for June pay day. Don’t be disappointed in me 😁

I’m ok with it. At least he made his decision in good time instead of hanging on. Now we can get about our recruitment 

I’m ok with it. At least he made his decision in good time instead of hanging on. Now we can get about our recruitment 

I’m ok with it. At least he made his decision in good time instead of hanging on. Now we can get about our recruitment 

I’m ok with it. At least he made his decision in good time instead of hanging on. Now we can get about our recruitment 

I’m ok with it. At least he made his decision in good time instead of hanging on. Now we can get about our recruitment 

I’ve visited the odd rival forum. I always seem to end up thinking ‘how do they cope with this formatting’. I’m probably just so used to the way this forum is organised, this being my twelfth year here 😱

I'm at the stage where I don't care who the first signing is. I just want to be informed on the morning of the first day of the transfer window, that we have signed a player. Quickly followed by the announcement of at the least 5 or 6 more signings.
I don't want to see weeks of speculation on who's coming or more worryingly going. I want us to have our squad sorted with the exceptions of a few loan players before they report for preseason training.

1) As yet we are rumoured to be losing our top goalscorer from last season upon the expiry of his contract. Nothing definite has happened yet. You make out like we’ve lost all of the players in the squad, Davies, Stearman, Chester have all been released and are replaceable. Dobbin, Roberts, Springett and White returned to their parent clubs….and are replaceable. 
 
2) We do have the budget to replace him, we signed him last year and paid his wages, if he leaves we will sign other strikers and pay their wages. We’ve heard from the club over the last season that we were well within the agreed terms of the business plan and have performed better than expected against budget. We’ve also heard we are able to pay fees again….There’s only one person here ignoring things and it’s not me. 
3) What evidence can you offer that there isn’t a “fight” to keep McGoldrick? The club will offer what works best for the club in terms of wages, contract length, playing guarantees etc. If he, a grown man with his own wants and needs, makes a decision to leave then that is up to him.
So yes, at a point when the club is on a sound financial footing, we have a head of recruitment in place who has spotted gems in the past, a manager with the backing of the chairman with what resources we do have, and essentially a clean(ish) slate for recruitment this summer BEFORE the transfer window has even opened, I do wonder why some people are so pessimistic. If we get to 2:59pm on the first day of the season and the squad hasn’t been strengthened maybe I’ll have some concerns. Until then I think people need to find some perspective, losing a 35 year old striker on the back of 1 very good season is very unlikely to be the scenario to ruin this club. We’ve survived worse as a fan base. 

There’s always an odd vibe in the transfer window.
Fans say they want change and they want new players in but they are also reluctant when anyone shows interest in our players.
Sometimes you just have to allow the process to take place then cheer whoever is in a Derby shirt come August.
 

Just sick of hearing about it to be honest. It's the whole self-pity thing that irks me most tbh. He did what he did, now he's been fired and his career is over, but him trying to flip it back on his accusers just confirms in my mind how manipulative the man really is. We've folk starving, a war in Ukraine, a divided country creaking under the cost of living, but hey, let's all feel sorry for Phil. It's one of those instances where the man's narcissism is so rampant that he can't conceive of how his behaviour is viewed. He's had plenty to say about others during his career, so I feel very little pity for him now.

Yep ,it’s important to look beyond the personal and professional jealous axe to grind stuff from eamon and stick to the facts , very telling that Phil talks of the vilification of an innocent young boy who I have not seen a single bad word said about , has been treated rightly as the victim and his identity not outed who Phil says he has engaged and is paying for a lawyer for because he needs independent protection, hmmmm , interesting when Phil started down the line to playing it as him struggling with his sexuality and the young man being there at that time creating the perfect storm to which the interviewer asks if this was his first gay experience, Phil cuts that right off and won’t talk about that ,
the reason he bangs on about the young man’s hurt more than his wife and kids hurt is simply because the young man can blow him out the water ,,,, sorry saga of a deeply unpleasant tv star caught I the act and trying to cling on to his credibility and career, there’s deffo more to come out 🤷🏻‍♂️
the age of this child when they met and the events and timescale that follow mean the only way this is not grooming is if schofield doesn’t have sexual contact with him🤷🏻‍♂️

He says there was no toxicity at This Morning, but later whines that there’s homophobia. He says he’s lost everything yet nobody whipped his £8 million out of his bank account did they? 
The person he feels most regret for is the young man involved. Really? Bet his wife and kids loved that extra little kick in the teeth. He’s unbelievably self centred 

He says there was no toxicity at This Morning, but later whines that there’s homophobia. He says he’s lost everything yet nobody whipped his £8 million out of his bank account did they? 
The person he feels most regret for is the young man involved. Really? Bet his wife and kids loved that extra little kick in the teeth. He’s unbelievably self centred 

He says there was no toxicity at This Morning, but later whines that there’s homophobia. He says he’s lost everything yet nobody whipped his £8 million out of his bank account did they? 
The person he feels most regret for is the young man involved. Really? Bet his wife and kids loved that extra little kick in the teeth. He’s unbelievably self centred 

The bit I don’t like is the threat of feeling suicidal as a threat to stop investigation and consequences for being caught out 

He says there was no toxicity at This Morning, but later whines that there’s homophobia. He says he’s lost everything yet nobody whipped his £8 million out of his bank account did they? 
The person he feels most regret for is the young man involved. Really? Bet his wife and kids loved that extra little kick in the teeth. He’s unbelievably self centred 

He says there was no toxicity at This Morning, but later whines that there’s homophobia. He says he’s lost everything yet nobody whipped his £8 million out of his bank account did they? 
The person he feels most regret for is the young man involved. Really? Bet his wife and kids loved that extra little kick in the teeth. He’s unbelievably self centred 

He won’t be able to hide down Willabooby’s cleavage next time 

The coverage is a bit much now, saying that he has the money to go into hiding until all blows over.
If you take the fame, rightly or wrongly you have to accept the press that will come with the good and the bad.
That interview will have done him no favours at all. If anything, backs up what Eamon Holmes was saying...it's all about him.

What a deeply selfish man , he feels like the victim of hate , he says homophobia is behind some of it , he says he knows how Caroline flack felt , he says his daughters are keeping him away from suicide, he says his carrer is gone and can only see gloom ahead and won’t know how to be or what to do with his days ,,, ,
you know what how about not putting your daughters through sheer worry and misery and saying you know what girls you don’t need to worry sick as I’m going to get through this for YOU , YOU are the most important things in my life and I would never put you through that ,
he has ducked up big style , take it FULLY on the chin ,accept what comes with that , never do it again and try to do some good and put back in as many areas as you can in life 🤷🏻‍♂️

I just don’t like him. He’s really not likeable, gives me bad vibes. 

I think the key thing was Schofield’s dishonesty.
Also he was in a position of power. Whilst the story will become salacious,  it’s a typical older man, younger partner work thing.
Trouble is, presenters like Schofield adopt a serious-faced judgmental approach to stories like this for a living.
The Daily Mail will be priapic for weeks.
 

4th if you count last season as caretaker and this season as permanent.
My thoughts go out to the Posh fans, they really do, having had McClaren twice (as manager), couldn't imagine what a 4th time would do to my head.
Never go back. Never. There is a reason why you parted ways before.

Dear lord, please dont say were still giving oxygen to the sort of relentless drivel served up by Alan Nixon....hasnt he been put out to pasture yet? From the same era of transfer windows as 'arry leaning out of a car window......
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