Simmo’s left foot

Oh well, we were not quite right today, would have been a different game if Tom had taken his chance in the first half. 

Could the £28 million quoted cover football creditors at 100%, other creditors at 25% with an initial payment and ongoing plan to pay HMRC arrears. Could the MSD loan be rolled over and just be serviced?

Florist 0 Derby 3. FRGS Lawrence. 

So true, if that precedent is set then the league will be full of claims and counter claims. It will implode.

lt will be interesting to see what the fed lead review comes up with. Two things are really urgent

1. Distribute parachute money evenly and put relegation clauses into all player contracts.

2. Put a % of trading turnover as a maximum of wages.

If that comes out then clubs will generally not be losing money every year. Player wages are the main cause of footballs problems.

Remember, they do not like it up em ? Festy will scare the hell out of them!

If he has got any sense he would not want to go to Millwall anyway! 

I doubt he would go to Everton at the moment, they are in a mess behind the scenes, he is better off building his reputation here. Anybody with sense would tell him that.

Email sent to my MP Maggie Throup. Be interesting to see if she wants to get involved in a big local issue.

I suspect he had been talking to his agent about a move for some time, as soon as it was looking very unlikely the rams would be able to offer him a new contract. At his age he really needs that new deal for sure. Sorry to see him go though.

He would have gone for free at the end of the season anyway. This was all about getting the wage liability away. Sensible, that’s a lot of money we now don’t need to find.

Don't forget Shinnie came on a free transfer and had a big substantial wage, and we are a couple of weeks away from being kicked out of the league and being wound up. Every pound of future expenditure saved will now help. 

We also got Byrne the same way, and others the same way before that? That's the way it goes when players are close to being out of contract. About time the Bosman rule was looked at again for British football!

23 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

I was under the impression that the club generated an average of 25 million quid a year gross. After net deductions I'm kind of struggling to see how we are suddenly 6 million quid short of cash to the end of the season, even if that takes into account transfer payments due.

 

Dont forget the season tickets money was mostly carried over from last season, so not much season ticket revenue this season. Bet our turnover this season is approx £23 million, down from £30 million pre covid. This time of year every clubs cash flow is reduced, hence the cup run always being seen as a good thing.

The coffers are currently empty!

Why are the police and stewards not dealing with it? It must be easy to recognise the area and then focus on the people?

If he has been offered a new contract at Wigan, and it suits Derby also then its hardly jumping ship. Best of luck to him, sorry we could not keep him, but we have a good selection of youngsters coming through.

Its common for modest value players to go in January for a nominal fee, when their contract is up. It this case a £15k a week saving on wages is the big one. We got Shinnie for free also, so not really a bad deal in my view. £2 million a year saved in wages already, with Shinnie, Marshall, jags and Baldock, that's what the admins are looking at, and it means less cash required to run the club in the coming months.

How many more clubs are going to have to do the same? Is any club in the championship running at break even or better?

So Marshall, Shinnie, Jags and Baldock off the books. Not much cash coming in but there must be in the region of £2 million per year in wages saved there. that must be a big improvement in cash flow for the rest of the season.

Wonder how much more is to come? Who next I wonder? Terrible that we have come to this, but perhaps we should have been challenging the numbers a few years ago.

Shame we are not able to give him a good send off. Good honest player 

Seems he is on his way out. Hopefully for a reasonable fee!

Season ticket money is dripped to the club on a match by match basis, TV payments, DCFC superstore receipts, and matchday ticket receipts and food sales.

7 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

Belick - £2 million - then off the wage bill 

Lawrence - £1 million - plus wages of the wage bill

jozwiak - £1 million - plus wages off the wage bill 

Bryne - £500,000 - plus wages off the wage bill 

Knight - with gritted teeth £ 2 million and whatever peanuts of the wage bill 

Morrison if anyone was to offer him a contract 

Roos - £500,000 - does it matter if we only have one keeper the EFL don’t care 

That's somewhere between 4 and £5 million per year in wages. No wonder we are in a mess.

I suspect the twitter stuff about Jag's contract being cancelled is wrong. What it actually means is that his contract renewal to the end of the season cannot be completed, until the EFL have proof the club will have a positive cash balance to pay the outgoings until the end of the season. Last minute ducking and diving by potential preferred bidders may well be holding up things, or even a late bid coming in. Lets see, what's happened to the Gadsby involvement? That seems to have gone quiet, or has it?

Lets all just calm down, ignore dubious stuff on twitter, and wait for official statements from the club.

Derby 3 Sheffield 0. FRGS Lawrence.

I doubt there will not be any Hughes type fees around in the championship for some time. Might not even be Barker type fees!