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33 minutes ago, Magicman said:

You would get keogh, buxton, bryson, hughes, hendrick, ward, martin, russell, dawkins, thorne ( 5 mins ) many som I have overlooked. 

As well as those on his recent stag event I suspect - I believe wieman, Waghorn Johnson may well have been there? 

3 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

Should have come back to play for us after the World Cup. Very disappointed he didn't. I'd have thought that would have made a big difference to our finishing position, even if we'd never have caught the top 2 considering what they ended up with. But I'd happily see him turning out next season, as we will need consistent quality to make the automatics.

I am sure it would have helped if he had returned but contracts are signed so that’s it really - still our player unless someone buys him 

Always welcome back to Derby County especially when you gave everything in every circumstance 

Captained the club in the right way all the time as well and I am proud that you played for my football club. 

Excellent decision to extend as always - really deserved testimonial and already looking forward to who we play and who he invites to play.

Totally deserved extension as should be the case - I look forward to his testimonial especially with who we play against and who he invites to play with him as it should be a great day ⚽️🍺⚽️

2 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

Now that the umbongo restrictions appear to have been eased, DC has options.

1. Continue with an austere approach for this season whilst building a fulsome chest (the "Katie Price" option).

2. Allow earlier access to a chest which, whilst pleasing in it's own right, is more modestly proportioned (the "Kate Middleton" option).

 

Katie or Kate? Let the dice roll........🤣

With my money I’d want both without the actual liability 

1 minute ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

I know, that’s what I mean. Rather than bringing in a new keeper to replace him when his loan ends, sign him on a free to be back up/compete with Wildsmith. You then have another member of the squad who has settled in already having spent the last 4/5 months here.

Relatively low risk option.

Maybe there is a case to bring through the youngster we have who’s promising 

His goals were genuinely of the highest order of individual brilliance - not sure what that means for his team play or involvement or what he would be like in a side that made plenty of chances ?

15 minutes ago, Needlesh said:

Florist won't get another point. 

Might be the case for leeds and Leicester 🤷‍♂️

Anyway this is positive news whilst I am not expecting anything major 

28 minutes ago, inter politics said:

The best thing about missing the play-offs is we have more time to focus on our squad plans for next season.

I think we could manage a few more games 

We broke no actual rules - end of story - the administrators accepted a punishment of minus 9 points or we couldn’t move forward  - Mel Morris gave us the extra minus 12 points for administration - the real punishment was having embargo after embargo and restrictions after restrictions while the EFL tried to worm a case against us to please outside parties which cost us a fortune in player sales or lack of player sales. 

1 hour ago, simmoram1995 said:

Sorry to burst your bubble but Osborn is not a shout sadly he’s co owner of a bar near me and allegedly is being pursued by Villa 

Was it Pancho Villa ?

1 hour ago, Ambitious said:

The anticipation is that he’s likely to drop a level according to Exeter fans. Surprising as he’s been very good in both games against us. 

He lost his place in the side - is that due to someone being better? Or he wanted to leave?

With his injury record it would be a concern - my feeling was always we should target him when he was an opponent so I am not sure we should be signing him 

22 minutes ago, ziggyram59 said:

Does anyone know what date players will be let go and other players offered new contracts? 

The manager probably needs to know what budget he has to work with, who he might be able to get in and will they make us better. Also who wants to stay and who wants to move on.

I suspect a lot of conversations will start this week and carry on for a while yet 

The likes of  Ebewobi  and Plange this season suggest that the grass is not always greener away from Derby (probably better paid) 

I have no idea if the club wants to keep Davies if we could but we probably should try especially as Stearman is effectively finished and Chester is simply never available and given a decent run of games is very dependable 

1 hour ago, Kokosnuss said:

Marvin Johnson needs to read that, understand exactly what it is he's done, and hang his head in shame. The diving b******.

Hopefully they won’t mind if the same thing happens to themselves in the play offs or at Wembley 

31 minutes ago, BramcoteRam84 said:

 

But we could probably cope with his wages, and we don’t need the money, we’re in a much stronger bargaining position than we have been previously. If it is a loan then we should be pushing for a decent loan fee. I think after his performances for Brum we might get a couple of offers hopefully. 

I don’t think we got a loan fee from Birmingham this season and only around 80% of his wages paid from what I heard - anyway if it’s the best deal we could get that’s it really 

I can cope with decisions going against us but what is unacceptable to me has been the the decisions awarded against where there is simply nothing to discuss - not even any physical contact at all - now the players are to blame because they are nothing but cheats and they will forever know that they are cheats, it’s not simulation because it doesn’t exist in the rules it’s cheating and I want those players shaming every week with at least the same punishment as violent conduct 

3 hours ago, Needlesh said:

Part of that plan though is that we can't pay transfer or loan fees or agents fees for another two windows. At least that's what was widely reported.

Free transfers with no agent fee is a tough market, although LR did brilliantly IMO.

I'm guessing that there won't be any meaningful action in this thread until August.

 

You could tell McGoldrick had no agent 👍

Make that 0-3

Forest only beat Brighton after they had 120 mins at Wembley 72 hours before whilst Everton are playing Brighton who are 3 games in 9 days 

5 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

Hope Everton don't come to regret missing these chances

2 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

WOW!

2-0

🤷‍♂️