Kernow

Paddy McNair available on a free.

29 years old, primarily a CB, but can also play RB, DM & CM. Might be too expensive wage wise, he’s played 200+ Championship games so that kind of experience is probably going to be quite sought after.

It depends on our budget, Wildsmith renewing his contract solves the issue at a "cheap" cost, as any keeper we sign as number 1 will likely want similar money. £900k would be a sizeable chunk of whatever we do this spend this summer I would guess.

Saying that, he would be a massive upgrade on Wildsmith and is one of the best keepers in the division, despite Rotherham's position. £900k would be a bargain, he's only 25 and I think we would make a decent amount of profit on him when he does eventually move on.

Elias Burke took over from Ryan, he left to report on West Brom, and he’s a West Brom fan so probably would’ve moved on regardless of our league status.

Ryan Conway was great, an Arsenal fan who really invested himself into Derby as a club and a city. Pretty sure he even moved to Derby for the role?

He left due to some MH struggles, but has still produced some great Derby content, including books. It would be brilliant if he did come back.

1 hour ago, Thierry Ennui said:

What do people think about Bielik should Brum get relegated today?

I think it would be very funny.

7 minutes ago, TomTom92 said:

How could i forget Cash? Oooops.

Yes this may well change our summer plans although with him signing a long contract i imaginer we'd want top dollar for him.

It’d be interesting to see what would be “acceptable” to sell him, providing all of it was reinvested into the squad.

His new contract bumps his price up from what we were going to get when he nearly went last summer, so does another season of performing excellently.

If we got £6-7mil, as well as a loan back, then that could make a huge difference to the make-up of our squad.

It’ll be Sheffield United at home, Friday night on TV. Pretty much a guarantee.

He’s leaving Cheltenham at the end of his contract, not sure if that’s his choice or Cheltenham’s, but he’s under ‘released’ on their Retained List.

Dean Leacock

Missed a trick not putting 4 bananas on your head for the final photo.

Just now, FKANorwichExile said:

Is that it?! Expected Cardiff to #bemoreB4 and ask for £30m and add-ons!

If we’ve offered 250k and they want 500k, somewhere in the middle seems pretty reasonable. 375-400k would be a good deal for him, you can’t overstate his importance and I think he can carry that into the league above too.

My voice still hasn’t come back, I’m worried I may never speak again.

My partner is asking if it’s possible for Derby to get promoted every week.

From right to left: Craig Forsyth, Sonny Bradley, Eiran Cashin & Liam Thompson.

I’ll bang the drum for Ethan Erhahon again seeing as Lincoln’s season is over.

Whether he’s affordable or not, I don’t know. But as it stands we’ve really only got Thompson as a CM.

Others that haven’t featured in League One are very unlikely to start featuring now, and as it stands, Bird, Hourihane, Adams & Smith are all not part of next season’s squad.

We’re going to need a couple of midfielders as a minimum, I reckon this guy would step up well.

Pretty remarkable really. Over the course of the season that’s 102 points, Bolton would have finished on 83 so we could’ve had it tied up after 40 games.

For at least 2 of those games we played with no fit strikers and lost back-to-back, so that figure could have been even higher.

Some effort from everybody involved.

There’s only one team I’d like to go up less than Leeds, and they’ll be in this division again next season anyway.

@Gabby'sThighs One player I’d quite like that hasn’t made your freebie squad is Sam Gallagher from Blackburn.

He’s not scored too many in the last couple of seasons, but he’s a good player and I think his attributes would suit this team well. A big striker who is mobile enough to also go out wide, he’d be dangerous from the crosses we put in.

All I know is that my voice still hasn’t come back yet. Hopefully I can post the good news that it’s returned tomorrow in the “The Morning After, the morning after, the morning after…” thread.

As for next season, I’d like us to put real building blocks in place towards a successful future now.

Our business plan is over, we aren’t restricted to players as a short term solution now, we can look to develop a core squad over a few seasons and hopefully grow stronger each year.

I hope we can get some gems, have some promising signs and finish comfortably in the middle of the bottom half.

Any hope or expectation of troubling the top 6 is still at least 3 years away in my opinion.

My thoughts are that it feels like proper football. I’m becoming increasingly alienated by modern, elite football. I watch it less and less now, and when I do watch it, the enjoyment is sucked out by the way it’s organised and run.

There’s real supporters who support less glamorous clubs because they love them. Not because they win anything or because it’s a tourist attraction. 1700 fans travelled from little Carlisle, just to watch their team that were relegated weeks ago. That’s proper football.

There’s obviously far less money, the facilities are nowhere near as good, the players can’t quite play the same kind of football, but it’s strangely enjoyable.

From scoring two in added time at Port Vale, to Wilson’s header against Bolton, to watching Collins’ penalty at Forest Green from a grass verge outside the ground because the one single turnstile wasn’t working quick enough, it’s been great.

Although saying that, I’m hoping we don’t have to return any time soon!

There are a hell of a lot of good players available on a free. Free doesn’t necessarily mean old or unwanted, but we obviously know we’ve been limited with who we could attract over the last two years.

Again, other costs come in to it, higher wages & agent fees etc., so a lot of these will be out of our reach. But you could probably piece together an entire squad of 18 that would be realistic options for us, and give us a very strong team of a decent age. And that’s just from one league.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/endendevertraege/wettbewerb/GB2

Obviously very, very early days but I had a quick look at the initial odds on SkyBet for next season for all the teams that are 100% in the Championship next season.

There’s no market for relegation yet, but there’s 5 teams “less likely” than us to go up so far. If we can get some good business done early I don’t see why we can’t be comfortably mid-table next year.

I want to give some credit to the Carlisle fans, too. Being from an extremity of the country, albeit the complete other end, I understand that it can be hard to travel to watch your team often.

I thought their fans were great, even after the pitch invasion and their players quickly dashed off the pitch, they still stayed there singing away and I noticed quite a few of our fans on the pitch applauding that.

They weren’t a bad side either, certainly better than their points and position suggest. They played some decent stuff and added to what was a great day all round.

The only downside is that there were probably some fans who could’ve got tickets but missed out because there were some empty seats in their end. I get it’s hard with the segregation, but I thought just over 31,000 was a little disappointing given how many wanted to be there.

6 minutes ago, LazloW said:

Some tittle tattle on Twitter seems to be suggesting that we bought the trophy ourselves and that it’s not ‘official’ (and thus we are ‘tin pot’).  Anybody shed any light on that?  Obviously, the tin pot comments are purely jealousy and I’m not bothered either way, was just wondering?

It’s just people on the wind up. Every season there’s a runners-up trophy, I don’t think it’s always presented on the pitch like that but that’s up to us. I saw a photo of Ipswich’s last season too. It does make sense that you’d get one for finishing second if the play-off winners get one, that’s just an extension to the season after all.

I was looking back at pre-season threads to see how the general feel for the season was, compared to how it went (around page 26 if you’re interested) and came across this. One of the many threads where Daniel never gave up faith even if things weren’t going too well.

I looked up and saw his tribute on the scoreboard, and that was just as good as the goals for me yesterday.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/12562042/celtic-bosun-lawal-transfer-interest-qpr-derby-portsmouth/
 

The links have started already, Bosun Lawal who has been on loan at Fleetwood this season. With a name like that, he might be more suited to Portsmouth.