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Why do you even bother if that's all you can come up with 

He might come in and score 10 goals you never know but I know if Bolton Pompey Peterborough or Barnsley we’re signing him I wouldn’t be fearing them anymore with him in the squad 

Rather of kept brown 

Rather of kept brown 

Lee Gregory would be fine if there is nothing else we can get in. He's experienced, will be a handful and I'd fancy him to chip in with a few goals.
What annoys me is I am reading some fans on twitter using this as a stick to beat Warne with. "I'm worried about Warne and our transfer policy if this is what we're doing"
Do you think if we sat Paul Warne in a room he'd say that Lee Gregory was his number one target and one he has always wanted?
No he wouldn't. Ideally he'd want a 24-27 year old proven league one striker who's ready to go and good enough to step up to the championship but if there are any available then 1. They aren't going to be sold and 2. If they were, we can't afford them. At all.
It's like our fans have seen that we have next to nothing, had to dip into a loan pot for CBT and are just ignoring that. 
If Gregory comes in he'll get my support, he's a stop gap for the season. Gives us an option. Is he what I want? No. He's not. But he might be the best we can get given our budget.
I've seen people say they'll be livid if we sign Gregory and we should have kept Brown. Livid? If be more livid if we didn't bring someone in.
Brown is nowhere near ready yet. Thrusting a young player in early can ruin them. 
I remember when we got linked with Jordan Rhodes and people were kicking off then. He's second top goalscorer now.
But alas, it's all Warnes fault. Warnes fault we've got no money, Warnes fault our midfield is poor when half of them are out injured. 

Rather of kept brown 

Rather of kept brown 

Plus he’s hardly going to go there and say Portsmouth’s a s**thole but the money’s good.

Pompey buying a reading defender for 75k surely se could go and rinse for them for Knibbs and smith 

Tricky though in January.
 

Depressing seeing players go elsewhere but not much we can do with the funds we have available 

Would it have ? Has played 4 professional games since 2021/22 season and we have 3 right backs and Korey smith to cover the position.

Bolton close to bringing in a 2nd and 3rd signing. Portsmouth have 2 in the bank and are linked with another 2. Posh nobody but keeping their players is as good as signing somebody. 
 
All eyes on us. Currently linked with nobody.

They're nearly all random names on this thread from my perspective. I obviously don't watch and analyse enough games not involving Derby 🙂

Big couple days ahead to push us toward 

Vickers makes me uncomfortable found in no man’s lane a lot, probably makes the defence less comfortable aswell…

I watched wba game today and watching Swift play for the baggies he is exactly the type of midfielder who would make a massive difference ( I’m not saying Swift himself as out of our range ) but a player like him who constantly wants the ball drives forward has great range of passing and mixes his game up plays one twos and sometimes goes direct 
if Bird is not signing let’s get him gone get Arblaster and offer cash plus a fringe player for Brannigan or someone decent who scores from Midfield use Fornah as a CDM 
do a loan with view to buy on Al Hamidi or the Newport striker and all of a sudden we’d look much stronger 
I still see the same problem though even if we did sign some decent players ….we don’t play through the thirds so we don’t control games anyway 
realistically though I don’t think we’ll sign anyone significant enough to make a difference maybe a striker on loan who we’ve never heard of 
at least it won’t be springett as he’s gone to the cobblers 

Wildsmith is our No 1 for me…

There'll be lots more slagging Management/Players/Ownership/lack of investment etc. Then if anyone signs they will be "hopeless, useless, too old, too young, he's no good on Football manager " etc.

I feel firmly stuck in the ‘I don’t want Derby to sack Paul Warne but am concerned about how bad the football is’ corner.
The league table does not lie but the performances across this entire season as a whole have been pretty abject. I am very, very concerned that we would not survive in the Championship under Warne. We absolutely won’t playing like this. 

Been better since the 5 at the back

Been better since the 5 at the back

Two beauties for the goals, otherwise garbage.

Shout out Sonny Bradley, did well when he came on.

How anyone can say Collins isn’t a natural goalscorer is beyond me, what a finish that is 👌