Jimbo Ram

Got a feeling some of our players are going to run out of steam, little opportunitiy for Wazza to rotate the squad and rest players. I hope I am wrong….

Got a feeling some of our players are going to run out of steam, little opportunitiy for Wazza to rotate the squad and rest players. I hope I am wrong….

Please invade Ukraine, just a little bit, just so I can be a hero, oh go on, I always wanted to be Churchill, battle of Gallipoli, the boar wars...

To get a club the size of Derby at even 70 million seems a bargain to me, including the ground, training facilities etc....put in to context they will be getting all of that for about 3/4 of Jack Grealish......

Agree about the comparison with the Saints.....be great in a few years to get back to where they are currently....

To get a club the size of Derby at even 70 million seems a bargain to me, including the ground, training facilities etc....put in to context they will be getting all of that for about 3/4 of Jack Grealish......

Love the positivity and think you're right.
However, there are issues and complications with DCFC and until a deal is done, the risk of things falling apart is still there.
And any investor looking at DCFC will likely also look at other championship and maybe league 1 clubs and think there's a similar potential with fewer issues to resolve.
A lot depends on how much the debts can he squeezed in the insolvency (particularly HMRC), resolving the Boro and Wycombe issues, risk of relegation to league 1 and so on.
I think we'll be ok and get new ownership in place but the worrying isn't going to stop for me until it's done.

I often compare Derby with Southampton. The two cities are of similar size, so are each club's stadia, both have good training/academy provision and both draw support from a region.
For clubs of that size and marketing reach, I would say Southampton are towards the top of the performance expectation curve and Derby towards (or even at?) the bottom.
Southampton have recently changed their majority owner in a deal that values the club at around £220m. I don't think it is unfair to suggest that had Derby been in Southampton's position, a similar valuation would be expected for the Rams. Equally, I think it fair to suggest that going beyond that level (while not impossible) would be a stretch. In other words, 'becoming Southampton' is not an unreasonable ceiling of expectation for any potential owner to work to.
So, if a new owner were to acquire a 'reset' DCFC - including the freehold of the stadium and long leases on Moor Farm - for an overall outlay of sub £50m it could be argued that there is considerable investment headroom before the 'project cost' becomes untenable. An acquisitions expert like Mike Ashley will be aware of this and would be looking to reposition the 'DCFC business' to the Southampton FC level through justifiable investment inputs. Even investing £150m in the project would still offer good value... IF successful.
Of course, that is a big 'IF' attached to this thinking! The investment has to work!! As Mel has shown us so conclusively, investing £150m in no way guarantees the transition I have outlined.
But the entrepreneurs associated with a potential takeover will ALWAYS believe they can do it better than the person before and believe 100% that the road to becoming Southampton will be successfully travelled.
Which is why I have always believed a takeover will happen because, as @Jimbo Ramhas said, buying DCFC right now is a bargain!

He is right to a certain extent, he and the Gibbon aren’t responsible for the debt…..but what he conveniently fails to add is that his and the Gibbons spurious claims are preventing the sale of the club….

He looks a future star to me. Are we getting him back on loan?

Told you it was his elbow 

Or Forsyth. Or Buxton.

Mmmh. I understand why you want to stand up for Joswiak, but he seems less stable on his feet than my Auntie Marge. I really never thought I would ever see any Derby player spend more time on the ground than Chris Martin, but Joswiak has surpassed him. If I was Mel Morris I might think about charging him ground rent.

Which would have been cleared by the new ownership without the laughable claims ?

Which would have been cleared by the new ownership without the laughable claims ?

Yep.  Complete spin to deflect from the actual issue.  No one denies the debt.  

He is right to a certain extent, he and the Gibbon aren’t responsible for the debt…..but what he conveniently fails to add is that his and the Gibbons spurious claims are preventing the sale of the club….

Watch this quick before I am told to hide it! ?‍♀️
 

Well done you. If I wanted to read blatant lies I'd follow BoJo on Twitter! 

There was more than once that a forward run into space was made which he chose to ignore and pass back to the defence. He's young, he'll gain experience. But saying he was good when he wasn't won't help.

Dr Elbow Popper

From Dr Stive ?‍⚕️

I saw Amanda Solloway too. Similar.
Very impressed with our local MPs in all this.

What a lady! 

Saw her on the march today. No cameras, no fanfare. Just showing solidarity. 
Respect.