Seth's left foot

20 minutes ago, Ram1988 said:

It's not relegation which worries me but how it looks like we are on the road to liquidation. Rejected bids, no developments and the same old washed up statements from the administrators.

I think most fans share that mentality, when we lost at the Red Dogs it didn’t seem to matter as much as usual because of the more important issues we face.

I believe we’ll survive but next season will be another struggle, we’ve lost too many players to be able to replace them all.

Ashley would’ve dropped out by now if the club was a lost cause.

I can see why people are so disillusioned with modern football, I’m one of them.

however, if there’s one thing positive to take away from this whole situation we find ourselves in it’s how it’s brought us all together.

The March to the stadium, paying off (and over) the St Johns Ambulance debt to name a couple of occasions where Derby fans have shown how much the club means to the area. If we start next season in League One on -15 points at least we’ll have a club to support and we should keep this Us against the world mentality ongoing.

Keep supporting the club and don’t let the fat cats ruin your love for football. I never wanted us to get promoted because of what the Premier League has become.

Todays result coupled with Reading’s win seals our fate in my opinion, it’s been a valiant effort but there have been too many obstacles thrown at them.

I’m assuming our impending relegation has maybe made the prospective owners really tighten up their offers?

1 hour ago, BramcoteRam84 said:

People are willing to buy Chelsea for billions. People do not want to buy Derby for £50m! That’s the problem and that’s why it’s taking so long.

If it was £30m or £40m with the stadium we’d have been bought by now and probably wouldn’t have gone into administration 

This just shows how much the ridiculous amounts of money at the top of the game have ruined football.

Parker v Andrade has been announced for May 21st at Pride Park.

59 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

That's a good point.

If it is Ashley, he may have said, I'm taking over at the end of the season anyway, so I'm not funding the rest of this season. 

We haven't sold anyone that we can lose any real sleep over, except for Shinnie I suppose.

The problem comes in the summer though when Lawrence, Ebosele etc leave and the new owner needs to build up the playing squad under a strict business plan. 

3 minutes ago, CBRammette said:

Must be why he cant get to matches as would cause a stampede of female fans ??

Get him to PP with Niall and Jack, guaranteed sell out every home game 

3 minutes ago, Ted McMinn Football Genius said:

Todays update involves the same regurgitated poo

Q “we remain confident nat we
will be in a position to name a preferred bidder shortly.”

Even they don’t believe that, for me the reality is another month another £1m in their account.

We suffer whilst they prosper, it’s not in the administrators best interests to get this done sooner rather than later.
 

Our interests aren’t matched by theirs! I, as I am sure many of you came to this conclusion months ago ???

 

But we don’t know how the interested parties are being during the PB process, Ashley was going to be announced last Friday according to some reports.

I can see how difficult this process is for Q with so many issues to address. 

I see the positives in that statement.

We have received bids, more than one gives Q a better chance of securing the right owner for our medium to long term rebuild.

We don’t know how receptive the prospective PB’s are being, after all the club is in a mess with massive debts so I say fair play to those bidders who are willing to save the club but they will be playing hardball.

Q could have communicated better with the EFL (leaks or not) it appears but the end of this exhausting process seems close.

53 minutes ago, curb said:

Yes, it’s very odd being on the wrong end of it, the only ones who seem to have any empathy are those who have been through similar themselves, although you do sometimes get the odd one or two who see the bigger picture, but they get shouted down pretty quickly.

Id also say there was no way we could have done anything about it when Morris was in charge either, you’re never going to get an angry mob marching on the stadium demanding their owner stop spending money on players. IIRC there were many times questions were raised at the fan forums about the amortisation policy, but we were assured it was all above board (and I believe they genuinely thought it was), then by the time of the stadium sale Morris had pretty much gone to ground and we didn’t really have a voice any more, although plenty were against it on the forums.

Your first point makes it baffling to me that so many Brum and Coventry fans want us to fold, sums up their IQ I suppose.

44 minutes ago, atherstoneram said:

God knows how some people would have gone on in pre internet,social media days,all we had was local radio and local/national rags.

Forest, Leeds, Brum and Boro fans would’ve had to have bunked off school to hang around PP instead of trolling our Twitter feeds. 

54 minutes ago, nogbad van 50 said:

Forgive my ignorance but who is on Team Derby?

Team Derby are releasing a statement tomorrow then, after a meeting with Quantama. 
it’s going to be a very interesting day… 

4 minutes ago, Gritstone Tup said:

No of course we haven’t and I very much doubt we will! As I’ve said for weeks we needed someone prepared to set fire to 10s of millions, not chancers looking to pick over a carcass.

So you have no faith in Mike Ashley getting his PR man to give an interview confirming his interest? At this late stage he will be well aware of what it will take to steady the ship.

I expect his announcement as the PB tomorrow ?

What happened to the Morley Hayes meetings, was that just a Mel thing? 
seeing prospective buyers in the Directors box is so boring.

4 minutes ago, Big Trav said:

take this with a pinch of salt but ive heard from my source thats usually correct (can go through my history to verify) that mike ashley and binnies are the 2 confirmed bids. Appleby and his consortium backed out. Personal opinion is that Ashley will be the new owner 

As I expected.

If it is between those two then Ashley will be the PB, I hope he is too.

5 hours ago, PistoldPete said:

It’s renewals of existing contracts I am most concerned about. 12 weeks or so from now takes us to end of season and near the end of a lot of player contracts.

Lawrence surely has to leave, he will get far greater offer’s from other side’s regardless of which division we are in. 

1 hour ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

I think it's a case of "last chance to up your bid before things are final, updated with regards to Middlesbrough and Wycombe attached"

It's a case of much of the work has been done on each side and getting to who has the best figure for the creditors.

10 days might still be optimistic from quantuma but the process isn't starting from scratch either.

Preferred bidder before the end of march (possibly with a very clear indication well before) is my guess, takeover complete by end of season.

Ashley’s PR guy said that it would be 12 weeks for the takeover to be fully completed. not a problem as long as funding is guaranteed for this season and Rooney can add some free agents to the squad, discuss contracts etc 

1 hour ago, Yani P said:

Pressure is growing on the EFL to agree new 'force majeure' Covid allowances and Bristol City, who last month admitted that they may be forced to take a points deduction next year, think they might not be the only club who will be affected.

The report adds that Middlesbrough and Stoke are among other sides facing scrutiny as the EFL enters the next 12 months of its three-year "profit and sustainability" cycle.

"I'd have thought there will five, six, seven in our league in a similar position as we are and there will be others that are struggling," City chairman Jon Lansdown said.

Please be Boro, Karma is a bitch! 

2 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

What, just as things are getting juicy!  ?

Can't we just change the thread title to "The Rooneys"!   ?

Exactly, it’s got to stay in here purely for Wagatha Christie ???

10 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

So let me get this correct - one club can hold a complete stranglehold on another club if both clubs don’t agree on a solution because the governing body won’t have anything to do with resolving it - ultimate BS don’t you think? - so we can have an obvious claim against QPR under that then !

And Villa, escaping to the Promised land shouldn’t make them immune. 

24 minutes ago, WestKentRam said:

I find it hard to get my head around us getting sued by Boro and Wycombe in this way, but not putting a claim in against QPR for similar that occurred in 2013/14. I know I've read before that Mel Morris said he wouldn't pursue such a case, but is it too late, or would the administrators take it upon themselves to do so on behalf of the club and the creditors?

On the downside, of course a legal case like this would normally take a long time to deal with, and time is one thing we certainly don't have at the moment. On the other hand, can cases like this be taken in tandem so if we lost the case against Boro and WW then we would win the case against QPR for what I'd imagine should be a similar sum to help make the club more saleable?

Forget QPR, Villa posted a £68m loss when they beat us at Wembley. And based on Boro’s claim why can’t we also sue Wolves amongst others?

Take them to court… the EFL will be bricking it then.

When we survive this (fingers crossed!) we need to have an anti EFL presence at every game from now on.

As for Boro away, chants are not enough. Throw tennis balls on the pitch, don’t buy anything in the stadium, try and make enough of a statement during the day.

19 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

I do understand your point and let’s say we agree to pay over millions of pounds to the owner of Middlesbrough football club for what becomes an agreement then we would expect the Middlesbrough players to put claims in against Derby county for lost promotion bonuses and expected contract increases, what would your view be? To pay them as well? - it’s never ending and has to be stopped at source which is where the EFL are failing. I want what is best for Derby county but paying anything to Middlesbrough and Wycombe on these supposed claims is a dreadful thing to do.

Their claims should be against the EFL who are happy to stand aside as it keeps them out of the firing line.