Oldben

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/portsmouths-goal-conversion-rate-compared-to-sunderland-sheffield-wednesday-and-new-championship-rivals-4633156
If we want to be top 6, we are likely to need a conversion rate of circa 10%.
If we want to be mid table, starting at around  10th place, we will need an estimated 9% conversion rate.
In my opinion we need a higher quality, younger striker.

Hello.
I’m by no means an ITK Alan Nixon impersonator and i’d only come on here and say owt if i believed there was any sort of legitimacy.
Chap who told me we’d want Adams permanently in the summer when we signed him, I had a chat with him on Friday, fee is the stumbling block. all parties want the move but Cardiff want a decent fee.
Sibley deal - apparently it seems to be length of the deal holding it up. we’re offering a shorter contract than desired. hopefully can be resolved.
Collins - same as above. we want a 1 yr deal. his camp want 2.
Herbie Kane - haven’t entered discussions, doubts that we will.
 

How could any of the answers in this thread be more than hope? We are missing around 7-8 first-team players at the moment and I haven't got a clue who is available, never mind we are being able to sign.
 

Ipswich had a ready made team, built over two seasons without restrictions on wages or fees, that they were able to tweak successfully and managed to exceed everyone's expectations, including their own and the bookies.
We aren't in that position, having to move on from most of the players that were hurriedly signed after Administration. So anyone with an expectation of challenging for the playoffs or better this coming season is setting themselves up for a season of disappointment or, more likely in some cases, laying the ground to jump straight back on the Warne Out bandwagon at the earliest possible opportunity. 

Exactly this.
Generate an atmosphere at Pride Park, have some good results and performances that fans can get behind. You want to see us sell more season tickets for 25/26 than for 24/25.
I think avoiding relegation is too low of a bar to set, we need be comfortably mid table and look more like we’re pushing ourselves into the top six than keeping our heads above water.
Play better football and win over the fanbase.
Warne has such a task on his hand to get results and improve the product on the pitch. Last season was my first in about a decade without a season ticket, i sat in the east stand for the final game and shocked how many people around me were moaning about the manager/football/players *as we got promoted in front of their very eyes*
If he’s going to stay the long course here, which everyone should be hoping for as you always want your current manager to be the one who’s capable of taking you to the Premier League, he needs to not only step up to the championship but show signs that we can play good football in the Championship.
Anyone talking about pushing for promotion needs a reality check, we’re probably going to have to sign over 10 players to compete in the Championship next season and if we don’t it will be because we have the likes of Collins and Hourihane still at the club.
A lot of change coming, you can’t expect a promotion push immediately, Ipswich are a huge, huge outlier who have one of the best young managers in the country and spent approx 10 million in League One before they came up.

Honestly,I'm anticipating a slow start,as per this season,as the new squad gels under warned and gains it's fitness,then a consistent run from December onwards,leaving us in the playoffs.

Going into the last day with no possibility of going down would be good.
Introduce some key players that can be part of the squad for many years, rather than one or two year plans we’ve been forced to work with recently.

survival

Depends on our approach, I’ve just seen Bolton’s chairwomen openly announce that they would need an additional £20m from their investors to compete in the Championship. The gap is huge and we’re essentially starting from square one. 
As nice as it would be to aspire to be a boring midtable Championship side, part of me just wants us to go into the season in better condition than Plymouth, Bolton/Oxford, Portsmouth, Wednesday, Blackburn & QPR. 

I disagree. There was a home game mid season and Fozzy was in a race for the ball with a younger attacker, can’t remember who, no half yard, right foot advantage. He won it, (just !)
Also .. watch how he heads a ball .. one of the few who can direct a defensive header to a white shirt. He’s also cute enough to play the line ball inside or outside to a runner he has actually seen. No he isn’t the dynamic striding forward man that he was 10 years ago but he is an able and intelligent footballer with another season in him. Not retrograde .. intelligent use of a loyal and experienced player. 

Pretty gutted about this, the only player that has left from the retained list that I would have definitely kept. Wages, wanted to join a new club or falling out with manager, probably will never know.

https://sportsologygroup.com/articles/the-championship-what-it-takes-to-get-promoted
In the last three seasons, the two highest-spending teams (on player and staff wages) received automatic promotion on two occasions with the first and third highest-spending teams achieving promotion in the other season.
No team outside of the top five highest-spending teams has been promoted in the last 3 seasons.
The lowest wage bill of a promoted team was Brentford (£41.4m) in 2020/21 and the highest wage bill was Fulham (£90.4m) in 2021/22. The average wage bill of a promoted side over these three seasons was £67.1m.
No promoted team in the last three seasons did so without exceeding a 100% wages-to-revenue ratio.
Sources of Talent
Our analysis found that on average the Premier League (27%) was the predominant source of talent for promotion sides followed by other European leagues (25%).
The Championship (18%) itself was surprisingly only the 4th most popular source of talent despite the common narrative around the importance of Championship experience to success in the league.
Squad Construction and Allocation of Minutes
Promotion teams in the last 3 seasons had spent an average of only 1.5 seasons playing together prior to promotion.
Promotion teams had a high influx of new players in the season of promotion, signing an average of 9 new players.
Promotion teams had an average of 3 new signings in their most used 11 players during the season of promotion.

My take on the Dutch players mentioned by Ghost of Clough...
Matty Ryan would be a good shout as keeper, however, although he's "out of contract", AZ have qualified for Europe again and I reckon they'll make the lad an offer
Syb van Ottele has been a regular for Heerenveen this season. Reasonable defender but less capable than Nels/Cash and comfortable on the ball, possibly not physical enough for the SBC. 22 years old and 6'1"
Shawn Adewoye has been a regular for RKC Waalwijk this season but not physical enough for the SBC. Results this coming weekend could see RKC in the relegation playoffs. 23 years old and 5'11". 
Deroy Duarte has been a regular for Fortuna Sittard this season but, imo, isn't good enough for the SBC despite being a Cape Verde international. Results this coming weekend could see RKC in the relegation playoffs. 24 years old and 5'10".
Lazaros Lamprou has been a regular for Excelsior this season but, imo, isn't good enough for the SBC despite 8 goals and 5 assists this season. He'd be up against better defenders most weeks. Results this coming weekend could see Excelsior in the relegation playoffs. 26 years old and 6'0".
 

Watching Celtic v Kilmarnock last night and Kilmarnocks right winger Danny Armstrong who I’ve suggested here before was very good. Was causing a good quality left back in Greg Taylor a lot of problems and had a great goal disallowed for a marginal offside by VAR.
He is 26 and has 1 year left on his contract. He can play on either wing and gets goals and assists in an average team for fun.
This season in 46 games he has 10 goals and 14 assists following on from last seasons return of 12 goals and 9 assists in 47 games. 
 
He has also played as a wing back this season so obviously isn’t the worst defensively which will suit our system considering how much running and work on both sides of the ball you’ve to do.
Positives are he won’t be expensive, he’s coming into his prime years, creates chances aswell as scoring goals and he works hard. 

I enjoy going to away games to small League One grounds than I do bigger clubs in the top two divisions.
It's been by far the best aspect of the last 2 seasons.
 

- Ed Dawes is a high quality local radio commentator and critics are ignorant to the standard of local commentary around the country
- Graham Richards became a bumbling confused and inaccurate local radio commentator for the last few years of his commentary
- Derby fans have been generally spoilt/blessed over the last 40 years by the sheer quality of coverage provided by BBC Radio Derby
- Gary Teale was underrated and would easily be our star player right now
- "Legends" Bobby Davison and Igor Stimac couldn't wait to get away from Derby County and lacked loyalty

Mel Morris threw in the towel far too early and in a string of monumental bad business decisions - that was by far his worse.
He would’ve won the appeal against the amortisation charges, as there was nothing within the rules about the straight line concept and what he adopted was a tried and tested accounting method albeit not done in football (to that point). We wouldn’t have had the 21 point deduction and would’ve stayed up that season. 
The academy infrastructure he put in place would’ve eventually paid him back more than he ever got and then some. We ended up losing an incredible amount of talent for pennies in the pound because of his decision to throw the towel. He just needed to bring someone in who could control the football operation - Cocu was ideal for bringing on players technically and the developmental angle should’ve been persisted with but like his decision to call in the administrators. I think that was also a very bad, early decision. 
He then fell in love with the Hollywood aspect of bringing big names into the club and the circus that would follow. Lampard was a good hire for the club, but ultimately it changed the mindset and from that point he was on a path to ruin. While he was fundamentally bringing things along nicely in the background, he was his own worse enemy. If he had just focused more so on what was working in the academy and replicated it into the first team then he would’ve realised his vision of having a first team heavily subsidised by the academy and in doing so would’ve been able to bring more talent to the academy to continue the flow of progression as opportunity attracts talent. 

Phil Brown was the best manager we recruited in the last 30 years and should never been sacked

Nigel Clough showed on a number of occasions that he could set up a team to play beautiful football. Easily rivalling that of Mac1. 
 
Just a shame he was always quick to put the brakes on to drag us to 50 points - but with a bottom 6 budget he did brilliantly when you consider what he inherited. 

Forsyth should have been moved on in after Wembley when he was hugely culpable with that half arse tackle that pulled Buxton out of position. He was the weakest player we had that season.  He was also absolutely drek against Sheff Wednesday when we had to win in 20/21 and his arse was saved by Pack and Waghorn.  He's proved a steady player at League 1 and needs to enjoy a two year retirement contract by the sea somewhere.  if he gets another contract here we are heading very much in the wrong direction.

Will Hughes is a fairly average player. Greatly overrated by most Derby fans.

We should revert to chocolate, amber and blue colours.  Black and white is a bit boring and not even unique. 
It wouldn't be the worst thing if Derby, Forest and Leicester amalgamated into East Midlands All Stars if only the fan bases bought into it - 100k capacity  stadium in Castle Donington full every week - get it done in time for the European Super League.
 

If Sam Rush hadn't sacked Nigel we would be in the Premier League now and wouldn't have had to go through administration

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/the-13-players-linked-with-moves-to-portsmouth-and-their-chances-of-arriving-at-fratton-park-including-crystal-palace-celtic-and-reading-aces-gallery-4624785
This type of player is what I'd like to see us sign:
Bosun Lawal - Celtic (on loan at Fleetwood)
The versatile Celtic man has twice been linked with a move to Fratton Park - once last summer and now a second time following the Blues’ promotion to the Championship. The News understands their credence in the reports, after the 20-year-old impressed during a season-long loan at Fleetwood, where he scored six goals in 46 appearances while playing both centre-half and in the centre of midfield. However, with the Blues set for a return to the Championship, their attention might have already shifted elsewhere.
Jesurun Rak-Sakyi - Crystal Palace
Karamoko Dembele - Brest (On loan at Blackpool)
Karamoko Dembele has been earmarked as the kind of attacking talent to spearhead Pompey’s return to the Championship. The Blackpool loanee is being viewed as the type of exciting option to bolster the Blues in attacking areas, which is set to face significant surgery this summer. The News understands head coach John Mousinho is an admirer of the 21-year-old, who made a big impact on League One this season - scoring eight goals and registering 13 goals in 39 games. There’ll be significant interest in the Brest player, though, if he’s again allowed to leave the high-flying Ligue 1 outfit this summer.
Antony Evans - Bristol Rovers
Pompey are trailing the Bristol Rovers goalscoring midfielder as they look to kick their Championship plans into gear. The Blues know they need to add forward-thinking quality to their squad - and Evans fits the bill after an outstanding campaign with their League One rivals. The former Everton trainee delivered 19 goal contributions in the shape of 10 goals and nine assists, despite his side finishing in the bottom half of the table. It’s been reported, though, that Rovers are keen to keep hold of the player and have offered him a new contract to remain at the Gas.
Michael Craig - Reading
This link appeared this week, with the Blues reportedly plotting a summer raid for Reading's Scotland under-21 international. After 36 appearances for the Royals this season, the midfielder's stock is clearly on the rise. Yet, it's doubtful he continue that trajectory at Fratton Park.
Chris Conn-Clarke - Altrincham
After 23 goals for National League Altrincham this season, it's been reported that Northern Ireland under-21 international Chris Conn-Clarke is on Pompey's radar. If true, the Blues will face competition from Ipswich, Mansfield and Peterborough for the frontman, who is expected to leave the Robins this summer. The player's profile sits nicely with what Pompey have been recruiting under Rich Hughes. However, the quality of player who sits within that profile just got higher after the Blues' promotion back to the Championship.
 

https://www.derbycounty.news/transfer-news/derby-county-set-sights-on-sheffield-wednesday-star-whos-set-to-become-a-free-agent/
I hope this stays a romour