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I don’t think it’s entitled for the fans to want a striker in, a position that everyone, including the manager had highlighted as a priority.
Plenty of clubs in this league with less money than us signed a striker. We needed bodies in as we literally have no fit backups. 
This month was purely and simply a failure 

Thats fine but at no point since the summer has that been the message from the club so people are going to be disappointed.
If they’re at the limit of the business plan then just say that? Don’t tell everyone two weeks ago you’ve put in a very good offer for Michael Smith. If he is the only player they could identify with this very good offer then what on earth is going on. 
The optics of selling Bird are bad too. I’m sure it makes sense and the club shouldn’t be run on how things look externally, I admit, but it isn’t great. 

Can’t stand these kind of responses.
If the club were open and transparent instead of getting fans hopes up, the reactions would be a lot more understanding.
 
Why go around telling the media there are pots to spend to strengthen and then fail to do so? 

The club have thoroughly let the fans down this January. 

Warne been banging on about a striker for literal months, pissing around with grandads from Sheffield. Then we end up with absolutely nothing, other than shipping out the only backup striker we had. Something doesn’t add up whatsoever. 
The rest of the business has been fine and understandable. This just doesn’t add up at all. Why fixate on two old blokes from one club? Why has it taken til the last day? Why be so brazen about what you wanted just to be left with egg on your face? I struggle to believe the party line we will be fed about getting in players who will improve us. It’s just not true. If Collins gets injured Saturday we are up the creek with no paddle. 

There’s nothing hysterical about being furious that the club has failed to sign a player in a position that was deemed the biggest priority before the window began. It’s pathetic from all involved. Not the first time it’s happened either.

He should resign on principle

People saying not to blame Warne need to give their head a wobble. Two Sheffield Wednesday outcasts as targets…one injury prone (there’s a shock). Extending TJJ’s contract when he is made of a glass, so many players show their ‘quality’ in training but I didn’t see any potential in him. CBT is a very good signing and I hope Adam’s is. Warne’s style of play will put players off from joining so it doesn’t surprise me we didn’t get anyone in. There’s still no structure with this club either and there won’t be until Pearce has gone. We need answers and I don’t think we will get the serious stuff from Warne in his presser tomorrow. Clowes needs to answer some of the questions.
 
Can't wait for Warne's presser tomorrow.
"We tried all we could but just couldn't quite get a striker over the line. At least Wash is back soon and he's a great lad
 

Exactly - the communication has been f***ing awful.
'There are no restrictions'. Except there are.
'We're confident on getting a striker'. No striker... In fact, let's loan one out.
Always over-promising and under-delivering. Fuming.

Rosenior had far far greater restrictions and pulled off a a few great signings. Given this summer with a less stringent one he would have pulled off better than 3 god ones out of 14 

I really don’t want to hear the same old crap about how we missed out if I am honest.
I think it would help if Clowes and Pearce ( along with PW) came out and did a proper Q&A on this whole situation. I still believe the Club haven’t helped themselves here, what with mixed messages/poor comms to the supporters about our ability to strengthen this window and how they’ve gone about the window as a whole. Too much time and effort once again wasted on Weds players…
We all know the financial controls from the EFL, that Clowes will only let us get in players using revenue and that he won’t be putting any extra money into that side of things (and that’s fine).
But you can’t help feeling that we could have managed this window better. My own view is that a quality striker was a bigger priority than getting in CBT….
Time will tell of course but at this point I think it’s just a question of staying in the top 6 if we can.
One thing is certain- if Collins gets injured over the next two months it will be highly embarrassing when looking at our forward line. There’s no chance that Waggy or Wash will be fully match fit before two months…if at all this season.
Always a chance that we pick up some free agent later of course, but ….🤷

For what it's worth I think the reason we are all so racked off is that Warne has been going on about adding a striker for weeks, and the club have done a crap job about being explicit with any restrictions we may or may not be working within.
The perception will be that the club has over promised and under delivered and it looks like we'll be limping home this season having apparently learned nothing from last season.

I don’t

With the additional TV money in the champ from next season and if I'm right all our restrictions lifted!? then seems disastrous we've not gambled.

At some point we’re going to have to come to the realisation that with so many players out of contract at the end of the season, and with Warne turning Derby into a short-term stop gap for footballers, we’re going to have a complete rebuild to build a culture within the dressing room. 
How on earth can you have faith in Warne/Thomas/Pearce.. to oversee that based on their body of work up to now?

Don't care what anyone says we are embarrassing and we have screwed up any chance of promotion.

I hope those who can start to ask some questions now, if the club is still restricted then on what terms? If it isn’t, then why are not making signings when it’s painfully obvious we need to? 
 
 

The club and Warne said last January was a mistake, well this is worse. You fear for Collo. Even if he is injury/suspension free he is going to be shagged. 

We’ve had 6 months to line up targets and a month to get them finalised. 
Without knowing the full inner workings of the recruitment process it’s hard to pin blame on one person, but the manager ultimately will be the one that will need to go if we fail to be promoted this year.

Completely and utterly disgraceful.
Everybody involved in our recruitment process should be thoroughly embarrassed and out the door before the start of next season.
This is absolutely not acceptable. Fuming doesn’t cover how I’m feeling 

The players have to be interested in coming as well. Come on there was easily time today to get a better striking option than Lee Gregory if we had a manager with a pull factor would have jumped at the chance to play for us. When rosenior was here players turned down championship clubs to come here 

People saying we're stronger now at the end of the window, but before it opened we said we needed a striker, we've since lost our only two backups in TJJ and Brown, and only have one fit centre forward at the club.
People joked as we went along that we'd reach this point and say "we tried but couldn't get it over the line", but I didn't think anyone was serious. For that to be the eventual outcome smacks of a remarkable level of incompetence. Is the recruitment guy still in his probationary period? Surely not worth keeping on. And such a shame Warne has no ability of his own, or contacts in the game, to attract players. 

Just read this, too late to check accuracy but pretty damning fact. 
"The transfer window has officially slammed shut, meaning that Derby now won't have signed a striker under the age of 30 on a permanent deal for SIX YEARS."

This is my worry that Warnes been tunnel vision on a lump to put crosses into and potentially missed some good options by not having a plan b

Depends how much you think he's wasted on signings who don't improve us or whether you you believe he's been too picky in terms of which players we could sign based on factors beyond their footballing ability (or whether he's a rubbish judge if character and/or ability), I guess.
Personally I don't think this is really on him, but bloody hell Paul shut your f****** trap until your sure you can deliver on the the things you talk about.
 

‘Tried’ ‘couldn’t get it over the line’ we’ve had all month pathetic