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Before we all get too excited it's worth remembering that Percy is the club's preferred outlet. It's completely plausible that they have placed this story 'annonimously' in order to get Alonso to complete the deal.

On the pod, Percy specifically said he did not know who was involved in this supposed dream team. 

He mentioned it on @Steve Bloomer's Washingoriginally. It's not for certain but it wouldn't surprise me if this was it.

Why can’t I? Bought the club without using his own money, put future debt on the club, as a guarantor though. Helped spaff all the parachute money in advance. Made promises of “taking the Premier League by a force” (sic), and “we are not there to make up the numbers”, before funding the likes of Eddie Lewis and Andy Griffin. Stood outside Pride Park to announce signing of Myka Varynen, again, didn’t happen. As soon as he could offload the club, with all its future money tied up, he was off. 
 
I will keep my comments on his involvement with Lionel Pickering ending up broke to myself. 

Another opportunistic chancer can do one. He had his chance to put money into a PREMIER League Derby County, but decided to cash in instead! 

This is an exercise in the EFL saving face, self justification, and placating bitter football clubs looking to do one over on each other. It is not about protecting football clubs from Portsmouth scenarios or the integrity of the competition. 
The EFL is quite happy to overlook Watford and Forest’s unique methods of circumventing FFP (switch/loan players between clubs for fee values to help their compliance with rules), not penalise the overspending of the likes Villa Bournemouth Leicester QPR Wolves, and overlook the dodgy practices of Steve Gibson and the use of his haulage company to help circumvent rules. 
 
They are choosing to follow this grotesque charade and to ruin the integrity of competition with league positions being decided by arbitration panels instead of addressing the fundamental issue, that parachute payments are creating a grossly unfair competition, creating spiralling wages and resulting in clubs needing to spend beyond their means just to compete. Much has been made of Derby’s spending, yet it’s been dwarfed by the clubs that have come down by the premier league, highlighted by the spending and wages disparity between Derby and both clubs they have lost playoff finals to. The irony of all of this is the main club fighting this - Boro - are doing it because we beat them to the playoffs. Did we have an advantage over them? No. They had a bigger budget than we did due to parachute payments!! They blew it on Assombalonga and others and failed. 
 
How are clubs without parachute payments supposed to compete. Eventually the majority of those that do try and compete will eventually come into problems unless they have luck ie. they somehow get promoted. These clubs don’t want to spend over the odds on wages, they are forced to by the parachute funded clubs that set the market rate, like Boro giving Assombalonga £50k per week.
If they try to apply FFP for the past two seasons (average of 19/20 and 20/21) as has been suggested, half the clubs will fail it, they must do, they’ve had massive revenue cuts so how can they comply? Only the clubs who are parachute funded could possibly comply.
 
We will probably be punished to make a point and then FFP will be scrapped because half the league failing it will be ridiculous. It’s not working, it’s not making clubs more sustainable. How about fixing the distribution of money in the game and introducing salary caps either on players or in line with turnover if player salary caps is too difficult,  it would be far more effective and help level things up.
But regardless of the rights and wrongs of the EFL and Derby. I’m tired. I’m tired of reading about ERVs and FRS102, I’m tired Mel’s war with the other football clubs, I’m tired of all these jokers trying to take over our football club. When can it be just about Football again?! 

 

you could say we don't have a pot to p in so embargo? who cares ?

embargo until it is agreed, we are in a rock and a hard place!

I'm hoping the fact that it goes back to the original panel is a good sign - one of the things that seemed so wrong was the idea their opinion could or should be disregarded in favour of the second opinion, which thankfully proved not to be the case - ultimately the second panel's decision only really serves as a guide for original panel when it comes to a decision on punishment?
So it goes back to the original panel, who were of the mind that our only real error was not recording our intentions clearly enough. This same panel now make a further judgement based on one new finding, one which still shows that we acted in good faith, even if what we ended up doing turned out to be against some rules (despite us gaining approval from the EFL prior to doing it)?
Is that likely to be enough to sway them from thinking the EFL were being somewhat frivolous in chasing punishment to thinking we should be tarred, feathers, hung, draw & quartered? We shall see.

I've been open minded on Erik so far, but this has tipped me over the edge to being against him. The Matt Southall links, the Indonesian links, the Vox links, the allegations of a lack of money, I could look past them, but there's absolutely no way I want our club ran by someone that uses TikTok.

I don't think that's the case.
I think the relationship between club and local media has changed dramatically in the past few years.  
The club used to need the local media to get their message out. If the local media upset them, there was little that could be done.
But now there is Facebook Live, RamsTV, YouTube and more, it's no longer a relationship amongst equals. The local media need the club much more than the club need the local media.
And so local media must not upset the club in any way.
That's just the way it is these days.

I don't think that's the case.
I think the relationship between club and local media has changed dramatically in the past few years.  
The club used to need the local media to get their message out. If the local media upset them, there was little that could be done.
But now there is Facebook Live, RamsTV, YouTube and more, it's no longer a relationship amongst equals. The local media need the club much more than the club need the local media.
And so local media must not upset the club in any way.
That's just the way it is these days.

I don't think that's the case.
I think the relationship between club and local media has changed dramatically in the past few years.  
The club used to need the local media to get their message out. If the local media upset them, there was little that could be done.
But now there is Facebook Live, RamsTV, YouTube and more, it's no longer a relationship amongst equals. The local media need the club much more than the club need the local media.
And so local media must not upset the club in any way.
That's just the way it is these days.

I don't think that's the case.
I think the relationship between club and local media has changed dramatically in the past few years.  
The club used to need the local media to get their message out. If the local media upset them, there was little that could be done.
But now there is Facebook Live, RamsTV, YouTube and more, it's no longer a relationship amongst equals. The local media need the club much more than the club need the local media.
And so local media must not upset the club in any way.
That's just the way it is these days.

I don't think that's the case.
I think the relationship between club and local media has changed dramatically in the past few years.  
The club used to need the local media to get their message out. If the local media upset them, there was little that could be done.
But now there is Facebook Live, RamsTV, YouTube and more, it's no longer a relationship amongst equals. The local media need the club much more than the club need the local media.
And so local media must not upset the club in any way.
That's just the way it is these days.

I'd second the Lego series.
Me and my lad have had a blast playing Lego Marvel this past year.
He's also loved playing Rocket League. We learned together. It's tricky to get the hand eye coordination right at first. But preserve because when you crack it it is enormous fun.

Where is all this point deduction stuff coming from. 
 
No chance of a points deduction 

No, the appeal is based on us not clearly defining how our amortisation policy works

The appeal was against the lack of punishment for not making our policy clear enough, not the actual policy which is perfectly legal and is in accordance with the financial reporting standards (FRS12)... which is why the EFL lost the original case.

Have you actually listened the EMT? When did she say we're at risk of admin?
Staff are worried about their jobs that's essentially all she said. She's a poor reporter leaving it open to interpretation without the actual context behind it.

Why is it concerning? Why are you assuming a.) Collymore actually has any sources within Derby and b.) he's not just winding up fans who don't like him? I personally won't treat anything Collymore says with any credibility whatsoever. Questioning whether he is a ''true fan'' is complete nonsense too. Having a blue checkmark on Twitter certainly doesn't mean you know anything. 

In contrast to Collymore, The Athletic are reporting that Alonso is still "eagerly committed" to the takeover regardless of which League we are in, that there is no opt-out clause in the case that we are relegated and that "most players" have relegation clauses in their contracts that would see wages decrease in the case of relegation.
I know who I am more likely to believe.

As a lot of folk have been going crazy about the latest season of Unforgotten I took the plunge and started a catch up on Netflix.  Gotta say it's very good.  No troubled, lone wolf detectives, no unrealistic, hard-bitten dialogue, clichés avoided for the most part, just decent coppers trying to solve intriguing crimes.
Highly recommended

Actually, that's largely an urban myth.
I'm not saying some don't, especially when they start up their ventures often leaving well paid jobs behind.
But by and large, you don't grow massive wealth by taking big risks, you grow it by managing and mitigating risk.
You find the big risk takers in Vegas most of whom end up without a vessel to empty their bladder into.
Having said all that, let's hope this guy is one of the few. And he kinda must be to a certain extent of he's buying us.
 
 

Pretty sure it was White shirts , blue shorts and red numbers then ?