Sparkle

Fair enough on your opinion, my opinion is that Mel Morris spent £200 million of his own money supporting various managers wants and unfortunately most of that has been spent on average players with little sell on reality which results in our situation. All of that is a big shame which has been sprinkled with some bad luck at just the wrong moments but we are where we are.

Fair enough on your opinion, my opinion is that Mel Morris spent £200 million of his own money supporting various managers wants and unfortunately most of that has been spent on average players with little sell on reality which results in our situation. All of that is a big shame which has been sprinkled with some bad luck at just the wrong moments but we are where we are.

Fair enough on your opinion, my opinion is that Mel Morris spent £200 million of his own money supporting various managers wants and unfortunately most of that has been spent on average players with little sell on reality which results in our situation. All of that is a big shame which has been sprinkled with some bad luck at just the wrong moments but we are where we are.

Actually I don’t agree - when an organisation appears to be failing its members somebody has to take a stand and tell them and the members that they should be doing a much better job and if they choose to ignore the members don’t be surprised when you start to lose your membership.

Every team needs a goal scorer and if we had one last season we would have been comfortable in mid table  

Every team needs a goal scorer and if we had one last season we would have been comfortable in mid table  

Actually I don’t agree - when an organisation appears to be failing its members somebody has to take a stand and tell them and the members that they should be doing a much better job and if they choose to ignore the members don’t be surprised when you start to lose your membership.

Actually I don’t agree - when an organisation appears to be failing its members somebody has to take a stand and tell them and the members that they should be doing a much better job and if they choose to ignore the members don’t be surprised when you start to lose your membership.

Yes but when the loan fee from that Greek side for one player is £13 million it all works out and is jolly fine 

Well most of the football domestically on sky is the championship or am I missing something 

Unless that advantage was being one of the top 3 spenders on wages in each of the seasons being looked at we haven’t pished it anywhere.
We’ve ran an (unsustainable) wage bill that has probably ranged from top 4 to top 10 in the division and have more often than not been a top 6 team in that time period. Few unlucky defeats in play off games to teams that have spent more than us / have gamed the system to a greater extent than we have (delete as appropriate) has meant we haven’t gone up, so be it. When football comes down to one off games it can at times be luck based and that’s why we all love it. We’ve now tightened that wage bill, understandably, but I get the feeling that won’t or indeed hasn’t stopped you moaning that we will be less competitive in the league now.
Don’t think we are “victims” as such but it is curious that just winning one of those set of play offs would see our strategy highlighted as a great success story and have fans of other clubs saying “wow look how well Derby are run” like you see from some on here re. Leeds, Villa, Wolves, Bournemouth and so on.
Unfortunately by not going up due to these fine margins we have found ourselves in the cross hairs of the EFL who’s rules are so clear that they are now seeking to change or clarify the rules that supposedly found us guilty. We are not victims of other teams cheating, in my opinion, but we have been victim of the EFL going on a crusade after the football club and creating a narrative that we are the villains of football with their vindictive, unclear statements and obvious leaks to the press.
Yesterday’s news should have been celebrated across football, that no precedent was set to retrospectively relegate a team for off field matters that were signed off for three years by an organisation that didn’t understand their own rules. I get the feeling it wasn’t though, because a narrative has been created that if you push spending limits and do not get promoted, you are worse than those who push limits and do.

All the best to him - yes we paid to much but yes at least he actually tried his best for us unlike far too many in my opinion 

All the best to him - yes we paid to much but yes at least he actually tried his best for us unlike far too many in my opinion 

Just seen the news and whilst I have had a few sherbets I consider the EFL decision to be the only sensible one available I also consider their statement to be utterly disgraceful and I would like to remind them that one of their members Derby county deserve their care and protection which they are not interested in giving which highlights their complete and utter shambolic dereliction of duty 

All the best to him - yes we paid to much but yes at least he actually tried his best for us unlike far too many in my opinion 

Every single manager at Derby said the same - he isn’t fit enough to be selected or start ! 
 
the most annoying thing about this is the fact that the EFL have made us lose this financial asset regardless of us wanting to play him and I think their actions on this are nothing short of disgraceful and it needs broadcasting very loudly around football circles 

All the best to him - yes we paid to much but yes at least he actually tried his best for us unlike far too many in my opinion 

For them to use the word regrettably when their own legal counsel told them there are no grounds for appeal is ducking outrageous, unprofessional and proves they are out to get us based on some twits opinion rather than cold hard evidence.
bankers  
 

Would make a refreshing change from paying £20million for players who are worth 20p

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Not wasted he gave us that moment in time at Leeds to be forever treasured ??????

I really don’t think the EFL will appeal mainly because they think we will be toasted when those 3 years of revised submissions are put in.

Proper Warnock style forward

I thought it was a desperate move by us but worth the risk but I personally think it should have been just one year pay as you play incentive contract. Never mind and move on - we need players who are fit and well enough to play as a basic requirement 

Not wasted he gave us that moment in time at Leeds to be forever treasured ??????