SKRam

I’ll probably go for a shower half way through and come out to about 20 pages on here, get excited something has happened, then find out it’s people talking about crisps.

You can hear it know . ' Were getting a sizeable investment from a Derby company - Were buying the ground we play in  for a pound from another company I own that's being liquidated.  We sold it to them a few months ago for 80 million .  Then i'm selling it to another company I set up yesterday for another 80 million . That gives us 160 million to blow on players  plus the cash for Bert and Ernie from Chelsea.
Can you imagine Gibsons head .

 

Keep them.
its makes us look tin pot. 
One season loans, one season managers.....forget it. You can't build anything with a strategy like that.
Lets start building properly. Even if its with players like holmes and szmodics. At least they would be our players.
 

I think it was no price increase for early ST renewal.

With all due respect I think you’re being a touch naive if you think Mel hadn’t started the process once he knew Frank was likely to go.
Our new Manager will be in place ready for pre season. 

Nah, Steven 

I have a sneaky feeling that there's more behind the 'Gerrard Approach'. If I was a betting man I'd say Mel is either going to announce we're in talks with him or we've got big investment coming. 
Seems far too unlikely that he'd go for a 2 hour interview purely to vent, sure he's probably as frustrated as the rest of the Derby fans, but he's a businessman first, I suspect he's got big news of some sort. 

Is that you Frank?

2 hours?
you could cover that lot in 10 minutes max.

I’m not sure if this had been posted earlier in the thread, but these are the apparent topics Mel is going to discuss tomorrow.

Don't know if this has been posted but it's an interview on Soccer AM from 3 years ago.
 
Chelsea don't want to be publicly turned down and Lamps doesn't want to publicly reject Chelsea, so I suspect it's just a formality now otherwise it wouldn't have got to this stage. I could be wrong but I hope not.
 
Some of you saying Chelsea haven't commented, therefore they may not have approached Frank but I seriously doubt that's the case. We hire managers a lot (a bit like you lot) and there tends to be nothing said by the club until it's all signed and sealed.
 
I'm not gloating in any way, you're obviously losing a popular manager and that's tough. We've lost two players to Real Madrid in recent years, and I'm old enough to remember a time when we regularly lost our best players (Wilkins, Nevin, Townsend, Durie).
 
Those of you doubting whether Lampard will be given time, I'd be shocked if he wasn't. He's loved at Chelsea and people realise he has a big task ahead of him and he's very much learning his trade. Whether he turns out to be good is another matter. Usually we hire people with pedigree but this one's definitely a punt. If he comes I'll be ecstatic along with practically every other Chelsea fan I imagine, though many will fear it's too early. We've got a good youth system and I also fully expect us to be sending a few more kids your way on loan.
 
Ultimately, we want to be challenging, so though he'll be given time, if he can't compete with the best managers out there he'll be gone. We're going to give him a chance but ultimately he has to be up to it. He possesses incredible drive, determination, single-mindedness, ambition and self-belief. He's going to need every ounce of it. Chelsea is a tough job.
 
Anyway good luck next season folks, with or without Lampard. Maybe we'll be seeing each other soon, either in the PL or the Championship !!!!!!!
 
 

Oh, I’d got used to him being gone now?

I feel sorry for Mel in all this. When appointing FL he must of thought that, barring an unmitigated disaster, that FL would hang around for at a bare minimum of half of his contract length. Mel is also the only one in this sorry state of affairs to put his head above the parapet. He would probably be the first one to admit he's made mistakes during his tenure but the guy deserves a break in my eyes. Gonna be interesting to hear what he has to say tomorrow. 

Totally agree last month we were all buzzing with excitement, even though we lost the final I was looking forward to the season, now in all honesty ive the feeling of here we go again, a new man with a new 3 year plan probably, I just hope its not a different style of play as ive found it entertaining this year

It can't be Adkins for that reason!

Why? Holland would just leave next summer and take over at Chelsea when Lampard is sacked. 
Then Lampard can come back here. 
Sounds like a plan.

Nope .................folks are too impatient in this technologically overloaded world 

Not sure, but I've heard he's got pace

Who's Will Happen?

£40k per week or £500k per week?? Which one would you take?

I get the feeling something big is going to happen. 
We're either going to get a real exciting manager 
Or FL is going to talk to Chelsea but turn it down.
I still wouldn't put the latter beyond the bounds of possibility. He's a PR machine and this early in his career he could lay down a huge statement re Loyalty.
There has to be a reason Mel has agreed to go on Talksport.

his brother says he's not to be trusted. 

Glen Hoddle anybody ?