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3 hours ago, JonnoDCFC said:

Unpopular opinion…

I think MM might just be a genius… hear me out…

DCFC cheat the FFP system (with EFL approval), to have a few great seasons at the top of the championship. Boro etc look on with green eyes and plot against us…

 

when they finally get their wish (points deduction, administration etc), the whole club pulls together and start to get results on the pitch, edging towards survival, new owners seem to be queuing up, and with MM making our only asset (stadium) off the chopping block for any creditors, there is little risk of liquidation…

That angry man in Middlesbrough must be FUMING!! And now we’re being linked with a 21million loan signing from united ?? imagine his face when reading that in the tabloids!! 
 

I would seriously try to chill out about the preferred bidder, it will come in time, despite whatever Gibson and the EFL try to throw at us… if anyone in football thought we were going to go bust why would anyone be bidding on our players? They would all be out of contract in a month anyway! No creditor will push for liquidation as we simply don’t have any assets to sell off…

WELL DONE MEL MORRIS ??

Barely 3 hours have passed and this is not looking to be aging particularly well Jonno......

3 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

Rumoured to be a dozen wanting out from Old Trafford so plenty to choose from - Ronaldo, Fernandes, Lingard, Martial etc ..... knowing our luck we'll end up with Maguire (or worse still, Fred).

Getting on a bit but I’d probably take Ronaldo from that list, he’d probably still be able to do a job for us short-term. Stumbling block would be wages, I’d imagine he’d be on at least £5k a week 

29 minutes ago, IslandExile said:

Dion Dublin played centre half and centre forward.

At the same time if the rumours about a certain appendage are true

If we stay up because three other teams get points deductions then I’m giving up on football. 

58 minutes ago, TheSlate said:

Heard Bocker Wright is in a consortium with Tosh funded by Nad from the kebab place. 

Is Sarry still in prison?

29 minutes ago, Curtains said:

It was just my interpretation of the Athletic article.   You could be right though .

Is Moxey involved

Dean Moxey, probably more random than Bob Malcolm

A bigger impact than Igor Stimac without a shadow of a doubt. 
 

He’s an absolute hero in my book £4.5k a week giving his all to a likely doomed (when he signed) team when he could surely get double that sat on the bench for any other team in this (or above) league 

As I understand it we need Mel sweet to gift the stadium to us, as soon as T’s are crossed and I’s are dotted then we can really judge Mel’s tenure 

1 hour ago, Jubbs said:

?‍♂️

basically the best keeper in the division 

1 hour ago, Grumpy Git said:

GSW

GSOH? 

2 hours ago, kevinhectoring said:

He’s scored 3 goals recently that raheem sterling would be proud of. His work rate has improved since he became captain and he has had one game in the last 6 where his effort was superb. If he thinks he has a direct route to goal, he’s 100% on it - unless it requires a robust aerial challenge. But works his socks off??? Knight works his socks off. Tommo works his socks off. Curtis works his socks off. Shinnie does most of the time. Joz does most of the time. CKR used to. We are going down unless we see the very best of this squad and the management team for 90 mins of the next 20 games  And have a healthy slice of luck  

Lawrence is not consistently doing enough imho, epecially given he’s captain. 

A half-bothered Lawrence in the hand is better than two Joz's in the bush

14 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

We have potential buyers lined up. If I was a potential buyer I really would not be happy at all of the clubs assets were being sold at silly prices.

It's purely my opinion but I think that list of buyers lined up might include Rammie, Tracy Shaw and Tosh from The Bill. 

18 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

I suspect we’ll see some player sales in January, some to free up/reduce wages, some to generate income.

Knight is arguably our most saleable asset, he’s young, a full international, offers versatility and athleticism. As much as I would love to see him stay, objectively I think it makes sense to cash in on him. One of the few areas we have strength in depth is central midfield, currently Knight is being shoe horned into the side out of position. IF there are multiple teams interested and IF we could get anything close to £5m for him it makes sense to sell for the survival of the club. 
That money can then be used to service some of the debt, pay wages till season end etc, we would lose a talented young player for sure, however the team as it stands would be able to continue without a catastrophic impact on the starting lineup.

None of us know for sure what will happen, maybe we won’t have to sell, maybe the takeover will go through, I guess we can’t really rule anything in or out. ? 

 

sickening that selling our biggest asset will only cover less than 10% of our debt, a mere drop in the ocean. 

By the workings-out on Transfermarkt the players out of contract at the end of the season include:

Marshall

Buchanan 

Lawrence 

Shinnie

Byrne

So we get less than a pittance for them in January or they walk away for free in May. 

By the workings-out on Transfermarkt the players out of contract at the end of the season include:

Marshall

Buchanan 

Lawrence 

Shinnie

Byrne

I can't see any of them wanting to play in League One

13 minutes ago, TheresOnlyWanChope said:

Went to two that season - 3-2 v Portsmouth and v 3-0 Reading. Then next season win v West Ham and a draw with Southampton after the Man U win I think. So not many games at that stage but I got used to Derby winning or at least not losing! 

Me too mate, first game was free tickets from Richie Williams football training against Southend Utd (think it was 0-0, only remember Ricky Otto), must have been 1994/95 followed by a whole load of games the following season, when we were winning obviously 

11 hours ago, TheresOnlyWanChope said:

First match... January 96. Top of the league v Reading. Won 3-0 Derby fans singing ‘we are top of the league.’ The worst thing was the view- I was too small. Could barely see. Loved the experience. The smells, the match day programme, the walk to the ground, the noise. Brilliant. 

Glory supporter

9 hours ago, rammieib said:

Do we think Wayne knows what liquidated means?

He knows there isn't a big enough blender in the world to liquidate all the players and Pride Park 

8 hours ago, Ram1988 said:

I think Tom Lawrence cerianly has the talent, but at the moment he is one of our only assets with any real value who we can sell.

…at a cut price in Jan or whoever is buying can wait until the end of this season and get him free.

Sad state of affairs when the best we can hope for is letting him go for free with the aim of just reducing our wage bill. 

1 hour ago, kingsy1884 said:

Like it or not at the moment he is our talisman.

If willing I would still try and renew his contract with a fair release clause. Would be an unbelievable asset in L1.

Not a chance, he's coming up to his prime playing days at the end of a contract on high wages and could probably get into most teams in the Champ.

I get that we have stood by him through thick and thin and made him integral to the team by giving him the captaincy but League One is not the place for him. If he stayed/signed a new contract then I would drop my (unfounded) dislike for him and hail him the new Messi(ah). 

10 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Getting a bit tired of these youngsters getting 5 years use of state of the art facilities, coaching, nutritionists,  educational welfare assistance and top end end injury treatment and contracts which they get at the expense of another would have loved it, then pissing all over it .  Wish him nothing but a crap career.  Sounds bitter, it should.  

Context: imagine working as a junior IT technician at Derby Uni, learning the ropes but with a chance to eventually be head of the computer team. Apple contact you with an offer which could potentially lead to being their head IT guy 

12 hours ago, jono said:

I just saw the one highlight .. where he came late in to the box like a seasoned centre half of old and banged a bullet header in.  He just looked so right in strength, positioning, timing and execution that in my fevered Roy of The Rovers imagination I have decided he is going to be a legend .. somewhere between Harry McGuire and Bobby Moore 

Absolutely! That’s also about as much of him that I’ve seen too but I love him already (think he did some funny Twitter/Instagram posts too when he was bored). 
 

Reminds me of Micheal Johnson in stature, perhaps a little short but makes up for it in width! 

17 minutes ago, cosmic said:

Petition to put this Petition to not petition to strip Mel of his CBE thread into the Petition to strip Melvyn of his CBE thread.

I did think that I should put it in that thread but it would just bump that thread to the top again and appear to any journos/other supporters/etc. etc. that we as a fanbase were in support of stripping the CBE.

I get the anger at him getting to walk away scot-free from this mess he's created (albeit £200MILLION of his own money lighter) but c'mon he's not Pol Pot, he's not embezzled or even done anything remotely illegal. Perhaps slightly immoral as it's put jobs at risk/forced redundancy.

The MBE was for services to business and charity, he's not exactly demanded all his charity money be repaid to him. This business (already loss making when he bought it and funded by his own money) has failed undoubtedly but that does not erase his past contributions to other business?

The petition to strip his CBE from him is petty and misguided and the small minority who have actually signed it tars the entire fanbase with looking like spoilt children.