Oldben

Ebou Adams was brought in to cover Bird position wearing our team when we are often losing the midfielder battle. The teams become weaker. Its not as if Ebou Adams was even a primary pick, hes come on loan. How many loan players have worked out for us in recent years. Adams was signed as the club knew Bird was being sold on. Adams was signed not to improve the squad but for cover. Adams club moved him on because he wasn't getting game time. He was a failure at the African nations club, checked his stats for that. We are hoping the club's trying for promotion. We know we are not looking great against weaker teams, tactically we look poor. I think teams around us have strengthend.

https://www.whoscored.com/Players/342794/Show/Ebou-Adams

Your assuming it would be reinvested back into rebuilding the squad

https://www.derbycounty.news/opinion/derby-county-must-pounce-on-in-form-reading-star-before-deadline-its-not-savage/

https://the72.co.uk/2024/01/29/the-cost-free-key-to-solving-derby-county-midfield-conundrum/ Good article

If we were odds on for auto promotion I'd be happier

Our teams highly defensive 4-1-4-1 system is both a strength and a potential weakness, as it can limit offensive transitions

Assuming we are promoted how good is our current geriatric army expected to be at the championship level. Why is smith not in Sheffield Wednesdays plans, probably because he's the wrong side of 30 and not of the quality needed at that level like much of our current squad. Yet smith is supposedly a prime target for us and is the same age as the most of the other strikers we have. Before they even joined us their record read Injury prone. They have very little resale value. Our salary budget is high because we are paying their championship level wages. last season those older players ran out of steam towards the end of the season. In my opinion, We lack a team capable of successfully competing at the championship level. Should we not have looked for younger talent from the lower leagues that might have a resale value in the future and perhaps wouldn't have us on such high wages. Has warme changed from his Rotherham teams, did he promote similar teams to ours in the past, only to find they couldn't succeed in the Championship once promoted?

I agree but wonder if a proper analysis of warne can be done if it the players he wants to bring in the club can't afford. He's dependent on what he's allowed to bring in based on budget. If your budgets restricted how can he strengthen the team in the way he might like. I do think he's narrow minded on tactics. That might work in League one, and the current team might do OK in league but if we reach the championship. He got Rotherham promoted to the championship, 3 times but he was also the manager when they were demoted twice from the championship. It might be possible to argue that Rotherham didn't have the strongest team and also didn't spend enough to strengthen when in the Championship. Would derby be in a position to strengthen enough once in the Championship or will we do a Rotherham, a promotion followed by a demotion. Many of the teams promoted via the play offs from league one were demoted very quickly.

Is there any interest in us signing Tom McIntyre from Reading.

After the last couple of games it seems obvious we are not where we want to be yet as a team. We still need further reinforcements. Our away record on defence isn't something to boast about. We are still not as good as the best teams in the division. I'm not convinced we will be automatically promoted this season, the journey continues. I'm concerned we might be loss making in this division, we are a business and that means we need the Championship to get more money. Here's an article about promotion from league one to the championship ... what is promotion from league 1 to the championship worth ... "Promotion from League 1 to the Championship is worth a significant increase in revenue. League One teams receive a basic award of £732,000 and a solidarity payment of £675,000, totaling £1,407,000. In contrast, Championship clubs receive a basic £2.3 million plus a £4.5 million solidarity payment, totaling £6.7 million, nearly five times as much as a League One club[2]. Estimates suggest that the total revenue increase for promotion from League One to the Championship is around £8 million, linked to the Premier League TV deal[3]. Winning the Championship play-off final and earning promotion to the Premier League is understood to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds, as it provides access to the significant broadcast revenue and other financial benefits of the top division[5]. Citations: [1] EFL League One play-offs - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFL_League_One_play-offs [2] How much Championship promotion is worth to League One teams https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/league-one-promotion-championship-worth-1396662 [3] How much SAFC will gain following promotion to the Championship and what it could cost to be competitive https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/football/sunderland-afc/how-much-sunderland-will-gain-following-promotion-to-the-championship-and-what-it-could-cost-to-be-competitive-3705330 [4] How much is winning the League One play-off final worth to Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday? https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/football/how-much-is-winning-the-league-one-play-off-final-worth-to-barnsley-and-sheffield-wednesday-4159324 [5] Championship play-off final: How much is winning Premier League promotion decider worth? | Goal.com UK https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/championship-play-off-final-how-much-premier-league-promotion-decider-worth/17nz5miq9ytix1wkm1w5q2kozd By Perplexity at https://www.perplexity.ai/search/c53f3622-6cab-435f-bad0-f06f40354df7?s=m"

https://www.footballinsider247.com/medical-today-derby-county-agree-to-sign-charlton-atletic-star-corey-blackett-taylor-sources/

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/championship-playoff-final-how-much-worth-b2346962.html Ahead of the 2020 Championship play-off final, Deloitte reported that the victorious club could earn anywhere between £135m and £265m, depending on whether or not they could avoid immediate relegation from the Premier League.

Has the club revealed its transfer funds too soon. It entered the bidding for Corey Blackett-Taylor but the £250k bid was rejected. Did that send a signal to other clubs, they have a small transfer budget but its not worth us negotiating quality players release to them since the bid wasn't that high. The pw seems to want us to focus on the loan extension for john-jules who has played 10 games for us and only scored 1 goal. Are we now looking at free agents again who seem to be the wrong side of 30 and with little sell on value. Pw has talked about older players running out of steam by the end of the season. If collins got injured, we don't look like a side that would do well, given the injuries to the older players we currently have.

I remember watching Brian clough when he was our manager. Made us start to believe we could succeed.

I think pw is concerned about a repeat of the end of last season, jaded players and not enough cover. He's concerned that without strengthening the squad it will not be strong enough to get promotion this season. He recognises that the team needs at least 3 new players but is hoping to get at least 2 in. He sees the obvious like needing a new striker. That aside I don't see him as tactically astute. He doesn't seem to make enough formation changes when needed.

Looks like the kind of player I'd like us to sign ... https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-derby-county-portsmouth-and-bolton-wanderers-make-moves-to-sign-ex-birmingham-striker-ronan-hale/ "The Belfast-born ace won the Golden Boot in Northern Ireland last season with 30 goals across all competitions. He picked up a ligament injury during pre-season which forced him to miss the opening 11 games of the campaign, but the 22-year-old has gone on to score 11 goals in just nine starts. He enhanced his goalscoring reputation after he notched a hat-trick in Cliftonville’s 3-0 win against Coleraine last Friday (5 January) in the Irish Cup. Hale’s exceptional form for Birmingham’s under-21s, where he scored 28 goals in 23 appearances, earned him a promotion to the under-23s. However, his Blues contract was terminated by mutual consent in January 2019 before his return to Belfast-based side Crusaders – his first club."

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/portsmouth-derby-and-bolton-facing-battle-for-irish-sensation/

https://www.footballfancast.com/free-agents-derby-county-could-look-to-sign-in-january/#josh-onomah

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/league-one/startseite/wettbewerb/GB3

With the club having one of the highest salary budgets in League one, is it the case that players must be released/loan ended/sold on, before more players can be brought in so that's no breach of financial fair play rules for league one clubs. We have a lot of players but how many of them are currently worth the salary levels we are paying given that the club has one of the largest, if not the largest salary budgets in League one. I assume this effects January transfers

In Peterboroughs case its all about Ivan Toney, they receive 30% of the sell on fee. Assume that's 80 million or more.

I assume, that's partly because of those players being either too old or towards the end of their contracts

https://www.derbycounty.news/news/derby-county-promotion-rivals-could-be-in-line-for-staggering-40m-windfall/ https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/portsmouth-derby-county-bolton-wanderers-john-mousinho-pompey-peterborough-united-4466889 From the teams spending money above us, destined for promotion for Peterbrough and Portsmouth.