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Etete would be a decent signing. Young lad, from the area & looks to be a Warne type of forward. Only has 1 year left on his deal so maybe 1 of the many Cardiff players taht they need to get rid of this summer.
Double deal with Adams 👀

I know you can only beat what’s in front of you but I reckon the ball boys could give Germany a better match.

So was at the Training Ground tonight and picked up 3 bits of information. 
 
1) Ben Osborn was shown around the training ground (nothing groundbreaking)
2) Kayden Jackson was also shown around the training ground.
3) Kion Etete was also there at the training ground… but it looks like he was using the facility with a personal trainer doing 1:1 rather than it being a transfer link!

The Dembele link is probably the most exciting one we’ve had all summer.
He looks full of pace and trickery and has the ability to unsettle defences but also to pick a pass.
I think that’s the key signing. Getting someone in the mould of Dembele / Azeez / Randall / Maghoma is much needed.
We need more creativity and more technical prowess, especially with Bird and Hourihane having left.

In fairness to him, to go in hard and early was the tactic and Adams was employed to do it. Every time he touched it, Adams was on him immediately. We identified him as a big danger and had a game plan for it. Not many bigger compliments than that.

https://www.footballinsider247.com/derby-county-plotting-to-sign-ex-celtic-sensation-dembele-sources/
 
Would be a decent signing, not the strongest source but enough for a thread. 

This is mental this.
From October onwards we accumulated more points than anyone else in the league and were it not for Portsmouth's unbelievable start (where I think hey won their first 10) we would have won the league. The start can be forgiven giving it was a squad that had a lot of new players in finding their feet at a new club.
But as soon as we got going, we earnt more points than anyone else.
Also we conceded 3 goals in the last ten games. THREE. And two of them were in one game.
The last 11 games we won 8 drew 2 and lost 1. If that is inconsistent then you gave give me inconsistency any day of the week.
Paul Warne was appointed here because he knows how to get out of this league, you need to be solid. Playing good football is fine, but not really a pre-requisite of getting out of League One. Bolton probably played the best football on the eye last season and they are still down there.
Warne will not play the same way in the Championship, he's not stupid. He wants athleticism and a high press to suffocate teams.
I will openly admit after Stevenage and Shrewsbury I wanted Warne out but I can hold my hands up and admit I was very wrong. 
I can't believe a man who seems to be a genuinely nice human who has got us promoted with the highest points total we have ever had, the most away wins we have have had still gets criticism.
He gets beaten with a stick every time we get linked with a player who has played for Rotherham. (I think we only have Vickers and Washington) Its pretty common for managers going to other clubs, 1. To get linked with nearly every player who has ever played for him and 2. To actually like players they have had before, trust them and wants them at his current club. Eddie Howe signing Lloyd Kelly today for as an example.
 
 

Driving to Perranporth Beach on Sunday. 

Wouldn’t actually mind Josh Murphy. Des Buckingham almost completely changed the way Oxford played during the end of last season. They were a lot more compact and hit teams on the break more. This coincided with Murphys upturn in form. 
I think it would be a sensible signing that would work for both parties. 

Just listened to the TalkSport interview. As you would expect he came over really well. I don’t think there are many managers that have his level of emotional intelligence. It’s clear there is lots of thought and planning behind everything, Paul and his team clearly live and breathe and put the hours in. Really interesting there’s two systems he’ll focus on in preseason and basically the players need to know everything about it so have to do their homework and be prepared to talk about it. 
Also it’s clear that he sees good dressing room environment as a potential differentiator and focuses on it heavily,  Personally I think this is why we beat Bolton  automatic, when we weren’t playing well the squad togetherness got us through. Most successful underdogs have strong dressing rooms and togetherness. Look at Luton Cov those sorts of teams. It can bridge some of the gap in quality where teams have bigger budgets. Interesting the whole Warne being appointed was basically Stephen Pearce liking Warne’s interviews, listening to his podcast and basically concluding this is the type of manager we want running our club. Human first and foremost. 
I also found it interesting when Matterface was asking him on Derbys budget last season trying to infer maybe Derby didn’t have the biggest budget and overachieved last season, Warne genuinely didn’t know if we had the biggest budget he saw the team as top 4, not necessarily top 2 which is how I saw it. However more interesting he said that in his 3 Rotherham promotions not once did he have a top 6 budget. I think we need to put some more respect on just what he achieved there. 

This season is his acid test, he will be battling expectancy, but he’s here as he wants to push Derby towards the premier league and go beyond  where he’s been as a manager before so he has the hunger, he creates a positive environment for people to be at their best and has demonstrated throughout his career thus far he can overachieve his budget, something we will need to do if we are to ever get back to the premier as there won’t ever be a scenario until we’re promoted that we have a top 3 or even top 6 budget. He’s definitely the right man for now and I really hope he proves to everyone this season just how good he is.

I’d take him just to wind up those OAPhobic fans that turn red in the face once a player has hit their 30s.
Would be an alright signing as well to be fair.

He’s been round the ground, and was one of the three players Warne spoke to. He wants to be local and be close to family. It’s a strong possibility 

I want Southgate gone as much as the next man but that's a bit extreme 

I think there is more chance of Derby been champions in next seasons Championship than Southgate winning anything with England have no confidence in the man at all. We were rubbish last night. 

I want Southgate gone as much as the next man but that's a bit extreme 

I want Southgate gone as much as the next man but that's a bit extreme 

I want Southgate gone as much as the next man but that's a bit extreme 

I want Southgate gone as much as the next man but that's a bit extreme 

Chat in Scotland is Johnny Yfeko is Derby County bound for a fee around half a million from Rangers. Decent prospect who seems to have stalled with not playing regularly in the last year.
no idea how true it is but person who told me has told me other transfer stuff before that had come through before the media got a sniff of it

I was told that Osborn, a keeper and another were at Moor Farm on Monday which ties in with what Warne said today about the 3 players he met this week. I’ve no reason to doubt who told me. It’s the first time he’s told me anything like this so time will tell. 

Players player of the year, involved in 14 goals. Whole team was off at Wembley can't write him off on that.

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Kyle Walker at 34 is still one of the quickest players in the Prem. It's not the 90s anymore footballers are looking after themselves I think we'll start seeing the retirement age creeping even further up.

Okonkwo could be a decent goalkeeping option for us, especially if Vickers leaves too.

Kyle Walker at 34 is still one of the quickest players in the Prem. It's not the 90s anymore footballers are looking after themselves I think we'll start seeing the retirement age creeping even further up.