Dave Mackay Ate My Hamster

It's difficult times for us all chaps, let's not turn against each other.
We're all stressed. Support each other.

It's difficult times for us all chaps, let's not turn against each other.
We're all stressed. Support each other.

Andy App's bid seems to be based in realism. MA's lack of a bid seems to be based in " 11th hour, I'll hoover up if nobody can get it over the line "
He's the master of making basket cases deals happen.
He doesn't flex his vast wealth, merely has the hard cash when other offers flounder.
MA. You've had many chances to make this deal happen, with, what is for you, small change.
You could've outbid Mr. Apple's bid a long time ago, but you chose not to.
Just stop teasing our desperate fan base.
Fluck off and stop waving your deep cheque book at us.
AA. You're our only realistic chance of salvation. 
Please get it over the line.

As long as Ashley is only "preparing", "willing to", or "have ready to spend" 50m according to the press, and the press alone, and does not actually place a bid then his fortune is less valuable to Derby than ... well... my meagre disposable. I will at least turn up with some money and hand it over to the ticket office / club shop.
All this smacks of trying get Q all starry eyed that there is a bidder there who will offer the best outcome for creditors, Q will then delay. Appleby goes, Derby goes into liquidation as MA invited 50m bid doesn't in turn materialise, making Q look ridiculous (again) With Derby on the verge of being thrown out, Ashley then gets it for a pittance, no players and -15  points but he would back himself to make Derby viable for less than than that much vaunted 50m.

LOL he was born in Walsall!!
Went to school in Bucks.

After telling myself last night I'm going to stop looking for a while, as it wasn't doing my mental health any good, yeah  you know it, I had to just have "one quick look" tonight.
Christ on a bike! Actual positivity. AA looks like he could get it over the line. I long for a time 2 years in the future where we could look forward to a ' Barker type ' fee - Not a Mel type fee, that could bankrupt us.
Boring finances are good if they ensure our survival - and out of all the names in the frame Mr Apples is our sensible nan, who tells us not want we want, but what we need and can afford.
Please get it over the line Andy...????
I bet Cockerney Mike is seething though. Beware the bruised ego attempting to scupper the deal, and looking under the sofa cushions in Ashley Towers to find the odd extra million to save face. ?

After telling myself last night I'm going to stop looking for a while, as it wasn't doing my mental health any good, yeah  you know it, I had to just have "one quick look" tonight.
Christ on a bike! Actual positivity. AA looks like he could get it over the line. I long for a time 2 years in the future where we could look forward to a ' Barker type ' fee - Not a Mel type fee, that could bankrupt us.
Boring finances are good if they ensure our survival - and out of all the names in the frame Mr Apples is our sensible nan, who tells us not want we want, but what we need and can afford.
Please get it over the line Andy...????
I bet Cockerney Mike is seething though. Beware the bruised ego attempting to scupper the deal, and looking under the sofa cushions in Ashley Towers to find the odd extra million to save face. ?

After telling myself last night I'm going to stop looking for a while, as it wasn't doing my mental health any good, yeah  you know it, I had to just have "one quick look" tonight.
Christ on a bike! Actual positivity. AA looks like he could get it over the line. I long for a time 2 years in the future where we could look forward to a ' Barker type ' fee - Not a Mel type fee, that could bankrupt us.
Boring finances are good if they ensure our survival - and out of all the names in the frame Mr Apples is our sensible nan, who tells us not want we want, but what we need and can afford.
Please get it over the line Andy...????
I bet Cockerney Mike is seething though. Beware the bruised ego attempting to scupper the deal, and looking under the sofa cushions in Ashley Towers to find the odd extra million to save face. ?

After telling myself last night I'm going to stop looking for a while, as it wasn't doing my mental health any good, yeah  you know it, I had to just have "one quick look" tonight.
Christ on a bike! Actual positivity. AA looks like he could get it over the line. I long for a time 2 years in the future where we could look forward to a ' Barker type ' fee - Not a Mel type fee, that could bankrupt us.
Boring finances are good if they ensure our survival - and out of all the names in the frame Mr Apples is our sensible nan, who tells us not want we want, but what we need and can afford.
Please get it over the line Andy...????
I bet Cockerney Mike is seething though. Beware the bruised ego attempting to scupper the deal, and looking under the sofa cushions in Ashley Towers to find the odd extra million to save face. ?

After telling myself last night I'm going to stop looking for a while, as it wasn't doing my mental health any good, yeah  you know it, I had to just have "one quick look" tonight.
Christ on a bike! Actual positivity. AA looks like he could get it over the line. I long for a time 2 years in the future where we could look forward to a ' Barker type ' fee - Not a Mel type fee, that could bankrupt us.
Boring finances are good if they ensure our survival - and out of all the names in the frame Mr Apples is our sensible nan, who tells us not want we want, but what we need and can afford.
Please get it over the line Andy...????
I bet Cockerney Mike is seething though. Beware the bruised ego attempting to scupper the deal, and looking under the sofa cushions in Ashley Towers to find the odd extra million to save face. ?

After telling myself last night I'm going to stop looking for a while, as it wasn't doing my mental health any good, yeah  you know it, I had to just have "one quick look" tonight.
Christ on a bike! Actual positivity. AA looks like he could get it over the line. I long for a time 2 years in the future where we could look forward to a ' Barker type ' fee - Not a Mel type fee, that could bankrupt us.
Boring finances are good if they ensure our survival - and out of all the names in the frame Mr Apples is our sensible nan, who tells us not want we want, but what we need and can afford.
Please get it over the line Andy...????
I bet Cockerney Mike is seething though. Beware the bruised ego attempting to scupper the deal, and looking under the sofa cushions in Ashley Towers to find the odd extra million to save face. ?

After telling myself last night I'm going to stop looking for a while, as it wasn't doing my mental health any good, yeah  you know it, I had to just have "one quick look" tonight.
Christ on a bike! Actual positivity. AA looks like he could get it over the line. I long for a time 2 years in the future where we could look forward to a ' Barker type ' fee - Not a Mel type fee, that could bankrupt us.
Boring finances are good if they ensure our survival - and out of all the names in the frame Mr Apples is our sensible nan, who tells us not want we want, but what we need and can afford.
Please get it over the line Andy...????
I bet Cockerney Mike is seething though. Beware the bruised ego attempting to scupper the deal, and looking under the sofa cushions in Ashley Towers to find the odd extra million to save face. ?

They need to just get on with it accept the offer and name Andy Appleby the new owner of the club.

I struggle to see how a club that can pull in 20000+ can be better off liquidated (shareholders get near 4call) than shareholders getting X% whatever they can get. If less than EFL rules then just hammer some Luton style mega points penalties* or double relegate or something that keeps the other 72 “happy”. Can’t see worse case scenario being worse than this.
*Remember that EFL can/do make rules up as they go along.

Apologies, I misunderstood that.

They don’t become free agents, their registration passes to the EFL who will sell them to pay football debts. 

In the event of liquidation the players are still legally under contract and any monies raised by the EFL goes towards paying football creditors and the admin.

Absolutely. It smacks of bleating and self-pity. Also totally playing hardball.
So, despite their incompetence, their primary concern is " It ain't happening if we don't get paid "
We seemed to be being passed from one vipers nest to another. Our fate is in the hands of many organisations who's only motivation is self-interest.
There's a decent offer on the table from Appleby's consortium, probably more than we're worth in our current parlous financial position, but the field of play in which we're horse-trading in allows any of 4 or 5 parties to veto our salvation for reasons of self-interest.
It's truly ducking depressing!

On a quiet weekend - lawyers don't work at weekends, no matter how urgent we see our situation -this is how I see it, for what it's worth.
Positives.
1. We have at least 3 serious interested parties. Appleby's consortium, Mike Ashley and Steve Morgan.
2. The new lowest figure to take us over with the ground has risen to £40m and at least Appleby's consortium are prepared to pay that. Whether either of the other parties are prepared to pay more is debatable, but in the absence of higher bids, that may become the " take it or leave it " price.
3. Mike Ashley hasn't gone away even knowing this bid.
Negatives.
1. Big Mike is peeved at his perceived ostracism from the process, after his initial low-ball offer, and has initiated legal challenges. This will get messy and delay us even further.
2. Quantuma's slow expedition of the process is incurring disproportionate costs and they're increasing day by day. You can't blame MA for challenging those costs.
3. The EFL have started to stick their oar in, demanding consultation that they're  not legally entitled to.
I think a deal will be struck. When there are no bidders that's the time to be worried, but the s*** show that Mel has sown is costing us legal and administrative fees unwrangling it.
MA is unprepared to pay those costs in full, understandably, I just hope that those costs don't escalate to a point where they actually scupper any rescue plan.
Worrying times, but liquidation suits nobody, particularly Quantuma, who need a buyer to pay their fees. I'm not sure they'll get all of them though, as they're growing to disproportionate amounts compared to the value of the club.
While there's still 3 interested parties, we will get it over the line. But how, and what condition we end up in after the process is anyone's guess... ?

You could not make it up. We’re in a crisis and the first substantive statement from our esteemed administrators for ages is not about the club but about ... them 

Seriously who gives a monkeys who a player not going to be at the club next season is having a game of golf with, not like we've got anything serious to worry about is it.
Just hope Kirchener doesn't let him drive his golf cart.

Forgive me, I've just speed-read it. The things that stood out for me was " We're getting our fees come what may " and " it's been ever so complicated, we deserve them "
They're not up for negotiating them it seems, but if the alternative is liquidation, surely, in the absence of a buyer there's not enough left in the DCFC carcass to even come close to meeting their fees?

On a quiet weekend - lawyers don't work at weekends, no matter how urgent we see our situation -this is how I see it, for what it's worth.
Positives.
1. We have at least 3 serious interested parties. Appleby's consortium, Mike Ashley and Steve Morgan.
2. The new lowest figure to take us over with the ground has risen to £40m and at least Appleby's consortium are prepared to pay that. Whether either of the other parties are prepared to pay more is debatable, but in the absence of higher bids, that may become the " take it or leave it " price.
3. Mike Ashley hasn't gone away even knowing this bid.
Negatives.
1. Big Mike is peeved at his perceived ostracism from the process, after his initial low-ball offer, and has initiated legal challenges. This will get messy and delay us even further.
2. Quantuma's slow expedition of the process is incurring disproportionate costs and they're increasing day by day. You can't blame MA for challenging those costs.
3. The EFL have started to stick their oar in, demanding consultation that they're  not legally entitled to.
I think a deal will be struck. When there are no bidders that's the time to be worried, but the s*** show that Mel has sown is costing us legal and administrative fees unwrangling it.
MA is unprepared to pay those costs in full, understandably, I just hope that those costs don't escalate to a point where they actually scupper any rescue plan.
Worrying times, but liquidation suits nobody, particularly Quantuma, who need a buyer to pay their fees. I'm not sure they'll get all of them though, as they're growing to disproportionate amounts compared to the value of the club.
While there's still 3 interested parties, we will get it over the line. But how, and what condition we end up in after the process is anyone's guess... ?

I'm hopeful that with  two players with proper heavyweight wealth ( MA and Morgan ) showing interest, the relatively small amounts ( to them ) will result in some sort of deal  to avoid the minus 15 point penalty.
Both will want to outdo each other for the prize and the ego thing I hope will eventually lead to them conceding a little ( for what is for them ) chump change.
I say hope, for that's what it is - not expectation. Surely if it comes to a one on one, egos will lead to them conceding a little more cash to outdo the other.
Personally, I think Morgan is the more likely to concede something. MA's a more hardened poker player, but would he want to miss out on Pride Park being a huge Sports Direct mug shrine to his empire? He's the master of the financial end-game, but like any auction, if two people want it badly I'm hoping it'll become an Ebay-esque battle, with one waking up after a night on the p*** thinking " Did I really pay that much for THAT? "
Sorry, the alarm's just gone off. Was I dreaming?
 

I'm hopeful that with  two players with proper heavyweight wealth ( MA and Morgan ) showing interest, the relatively small amounts ( to them ) will result in some sort of deal  to avoid the minus 15 point penalty.
Both will want to outdo each other for the prize and the ego thing I hope will eventually lead to them conceding a little ( for what is for them ) chump change.
I say hope, for that's what it is - not expectation. Surely if it comes to a one on one, egos will lead to them conceding a little more cash to outdo the other.
Personally, I think Morgan is the more likely to concede something. MA's a more hardened poker player, but would he want to miss out on Pride Park being a huge Sports Direct mug shrine to his empire? He's the master of the financial end-game, but like any auction, if two people want it badly I'm hoping it'll become an Ebay-esque battle, with one waking up after a night on the p*** thinking " Did I really pay that much for THAT? "
Sorry, the alarm's just gone off. Was I dreaming?