Oldben

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Click bait from the det, I doubt most are expecting an easy ride in League one.
Rooney admits a massive team rebuild is needed.
I thin most people will acknowledge there are some tough teams in League one.
 

“The Reds have seemingly played a blinder here.”
Yeah. Like picking the pocket of a heart attack victim. Opportunism and greed at our expense. What a blinder. Well done, everyone. 

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/05/19/liverpool-have-recently-made-a-decision-that-will-save-them-millions-of-pounds-our-view/

You're just being ridiculous now.
Food banks and energy companies have absolutely no relevance to the point at hand,  bringing such emotive issues into the conversation is rather crass and does you no favours.
As they say on Dragons Den "...and for that reason, I'm out"

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to not have the 15 point deduction for next season, will be awesome and if we don't have that plus 3 points ... awesome.
I think 18 points could easily relegate derby from league one.
A big thanks to ck for preventing that from happening.

https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/derby-county-news/derby-county-rams-takeover-deduction-kirchner-news-updates/
to not have the 15 point deduction for next season, will be awesome and if we don't have that plus 3 points ... awesome.
I think 18 points could easily relegate derby from league one.
A big thanks to ck for preventing that from happening.

https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/derby-county-news/derby-county-rams-takeover-deduction-kirchner-news-updates/
to not have the 15 point deduction for next season, will be awesome and if we don't have that plus 3 points ... awesome.
I think 18 points could easily relegate derby from league one.
A big thanks to ck for preventing that from happening.

Hm ... i wonder, did the club keep running with joswiaks sale, and there's still money owed to poznan?

Is there an assumption that the 2.5 million wasn't spent on keeping the club running?

Alright Wiki, the Polish squads like league one anyway, I mean, that have Joziak in it.
I’ll admit that striker they have is ok, I recon we could get him when his contract runs out. Swap for Bielek maybe?

Per the administrators original statement of affairs, dated September 2021, there were £8.3m of transfer fees outstanding, the same figure was still outstanding in the Administrators Progress Report in March 2022.
What the £8.3m is made up of is not apparent.

With us owing arsenal 8 million for Bielek there's zero reason to sell, we simply wouldn't recover the money or even break even.
We will need his skills in League one.
He's still under contract next season, why would dcfc sell.
He's one bright light in a team that's decimated by free transfers during the summer.
Loaning him out, doesn't help derby, since it means the loss of a great player and so where would the benefit come from.
You couldn't do a loan swap deal either, who would join derby in that sort of swap deal.
 

This season was a weird one, coming out of the pandemic + the administration/uncertainty made it harder to fill the ground
That said - I don't think we can assume we will fill the ground in L1, unless we get off to a flyer and are thumping teams left right and centre, new investment, exciting new players etc
Attendances in the 3rd tier back in the 1980s dropped pretty low
Our first season we finished 7th and our average attendance was just under 11k. Highest was 16k and lowest was 8k
Even the following season when we finished 3rd and got promoted - our average attendance was 12k (highest 21k and lowest 9.5k)
I doubt we'll drop attendances that low, but the cost of living crisis won't be our friend in that respect either.
I think 20k next season will be considered a decent crowd

I have yet to see rooney winning enough games that he could win enough games to break the 80 points required just to reach the play offs.
I don't under estimate the quality of the teams or managers in League one.
There are some ex Premier league teams in League one.
How many of the teams at the top of league one are mostly made of older and youth players.

I have yet to see rooney winning enough games that he could win enough games to break the 80 points required just to reach the play offs.
I don't under estimate the quality of the teams or managers in League one.
There are some ex Premier league teams in League one.
How many of the teams at the top of league one are mostly made of older and youth players.

Players will go where they are paid the most.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-chris-kirchner-abuse-7089417
The social media abuse mentioned is uncalled for.
I get that fans are anxious, but the club didn't enter administration for the sake of it, its 60 plus million in debt.
There are few interested in taking over the club, and of those that are, ck might very well be our last hope.
Why do people assume, the rumour about MA being interested in taking over the club has truth behind it. For all we know it's click bate, for a name that could potentially take over derby.
If MA was interested, why wasn't his name just as heavily linked to other clubs being taken over, clubs with less debt.
Never before has a club with 60 million plus debt, been placed into administration, a club that has a former owner that crazily doesn't want to sell a stadium he owns unless he gets compensated by more than 20 million on top of the debt he owns.
A former owner who only paid off boro, in order to help to try and get himself compensated faster, by attempting to expedite the purchase of the club.
If its not ck then who?
If MA really wanted Derby, why hasn't he come out in the press and said he's determined to take over the club and is out bidding ck in order to do so.
Ck says that a deal is a close, a lot of work is bring done behind the scenes thar he can't legally discuss until if at all, until after he's signed the contract.
Non disclosure agreements in business deals are common practice.
With the amount of debt in question, it takes time to buy something the size of Derby.
I hope that the social media abuse on ck is coming from Nottingham forest fans and not derby fans. However, it's irrelevant, ck needs derby fans support and not abuse or else we will not have a club to support.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-chris-kirchner-abuse-7089417
The social media abuse mentioned is uncalled for.
I get that fans are anxious, but the club didn't enter administration for the sake of it, its 60 plus million in debt.
There are few interested in taking over the club, and of those that are, ck might very well be our last hope.
Why do people assume, the rumour about MA being interested in taking over the club has truth behind it. For all we know it's click bate, for a name that could potentially take over derby.
If MA was interested, why wasn't his name just as heavily linked to other clubs being taken over, clubs with less debt.
Never before has a club with 60 million plus debt, been placed into administration, a club that has a former owner that crazily doesn't want to sell a stadium he owns unless he gets compensated by more than 20 million on top of the debt he owns.
A former owner who only paid off boro, in order to help to try and get himself compensated faster, by attempting to expedite the purchase of the club.
If its not ck then who?
If MA really wanted Derby, why hasn't he come out in the press and said he's determined to take over the club and is out bidding ck in order to do so.
Ck says that a deal is a close, a lot of work is bring done behind the scenes thar he can't legally discuss until if at all, until after he's signed the contract.
Non disclosure agreements in business deals are common practice.
With the amount of debt in question, it takes time to buy something the size of Derby.
I hope that the social media abuse on ck is coming from Nottingham forest fans and not derby fans. However, it's irrelevant, ck needs derby fans support and not abuse or else we will not have a club to support.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-chris-kirchner-abuse-7089417
The social media abuse mentioned is uncalled for.
I get that fans are anxious, but the club didn't enter administration for the sake of it, its 60 plus million in debt.
There are few interested in taking over the club, and of those that are, ck might very well be our last hope.
Why do people assume, the rumour about MA being interested in taking over the club has truth behind it. For all we know it's click bate, for a name that could potentially take over derby.
If MA was interested, why wasn't his name just as heavily linked to other clubs being taken over, clubs with less debt.
Never before has a club with 60 million plus debt, been placed into administration, a club that has a former owner that crazily doesn't want to sell a stadium he owns unless he gets compensated by more than 20 million on top of the debt he owns.
A former owner who only paid off boro, in order to help to try and get himself compensated faster, by attempting to expedite the purchase of the club.
If its not ck then who?
If MA really wanted Derby, why hasn't he come out in the press and said he's determined to take over the club and is out bidding ck in order to do so.
Ck says that a deal is a close, a lot of work is bring done behind the scenes thar he can't legally discuss until if at all, until after he's signed the contract.
Non disclosure agreements in business deals are common practice.
With the amount of debt in question, it takes time to buy something the size of Derby.
I hope that the social media abuse on ck is coming from Nottingham forest fans and not derby fans. However, it's irrelevant, ck needs derby fans support and not abuse or else we will not have a club to support.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-chris-kirchner-abuse-7089417
The social media abuse mentioned is uncalled for.
I get that fans are anxious, but the club didn't enter administration for the sake of it, its 60 plus million in debt.
There are few interested in taking over the club, and of those that are, ck might very well be our last hope.
Why do people assume, the rumour about MA being interested in taking over the club has truth behind it. For all we know it's click bate, for a name that could potentially take over derby.
If MA was interested, why wasn't his name just as heavily linked to other clubs being taken over, clubs with less debt.
Never before has a club with 60 million plus debt, been placed into administration, a club that has a former owner that crazily doesn't want to sell a stadium he owns unless he gets compensated by more than 20 million on top of the debt he owns.
A former owner who only paid off boro, in order to help to try and get himself compensated faster, by attempting to expedite the purchase of the club.
If its not ck then who?
If MA really wanted Derby, why hasn't he come out in the press and said he's determined to take over the club and is out bidding ck in order to do so.
Ck says that a deal is a close, a lot of work is bring done behind the scenes thar he can't legally discuss until if at all, until after he's signed the contract.
Non disclosure agreements in business deals are common practice.
With the amount of debt in question, it takes time to buy something the size of Derby.
I hope that the social media abuse on ck is coming from Nottingham forest fans and not derby fans. However, it's irrelevant, ck needs derby fans support and not abuse or else we will not have a club to support.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-chris-kirchner-abuse-7089417
The social media abuse mentioned is uncalled for.
I get that fans are anxious, but the club didn't enter administration for the sake of it, its 60 plus million in debt.
There are few interested in taking over the club, and of those that are, ck might very well be our last hope.
Why do people assume, the rumour about MA being interested in taking over the club has truth behind it. For all we know it's click bate, for a name that could potentially take over derby.
If MA was interested, why wasn't his name just as heavily linked to other clubs being taken over, clubs with less debt.
Never before has a club with 60 million plus debt, been placed into administration, a club that has a former owner that crazily doesn't want to sell a stadium he owns unless he gets compensated by more than 20 million on top of the debt he owns.
A former owner who only paid off boro, in order to help to try and get himself compensated faster, by attempting to expedite the purchase of the club.
If its not ck then who?
If MA really wanted Derby, why hasn't he come out in the press and said he's determined to take over the club and is out bidding ck in order to do so.
Ck says that a deal is a close, a lot of work is bring done behind the scenes thar he can't legally discuss until if at all, until after he's signed the contract.
Non disclosure agreements in business deals are common practice.
With the amount of debt in question, it takes time to buy something the size of Derby.
I hope that the social media abuse on ck is coming from Nottingham forest fans and not derby fans. However, it's irrelevant, ck needs derby fans support and not abuse or else we will not have a club to support.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-chris-kirchner-abuse-7089417
The social media abuse mentioned is uncalled for.
I get that fans are anxious, but the club didn't enter administration for the sake of it, its 60 plus million in debt.
There are few interested in taking over the club, and of those that are, ck might very well be our last hope.
Why do people assume, the rumour about MA being interested in taking over the club has truth behind it. For all we know it's click bate, for a name that could potentially take over derby.
If MA was interested, why wasn't his name just as heavily linked to other clubs being taken over, clubs with less debt.
Never before has a club with 60 million plus debt, been placed into administration, a club that has a former owner that crazily doesn't want to sell a stadium he owns unless he gets compensated by more than 20 million on top of the debt he owns.
A former owner who only paid off boro, in order to help to try and get himself compensated faster, by attempting to expedite the purchase of the club.
If its not ck then who?
If MA really wanted Derby, why hasn't he come out in the press and said he's determined to take over the club and is out bidding ck in order to do so.
Ck says that a deal is a close, a lot of work is bring done behind the scenes thar he can't legally discuss until if at all, until after he's signed the contract.
Non disclosure agreements in business deals are common practice.
With the amount of debt in question, it takes time to buy something the size of Derby.
I hope that the social media abuse on ck is coming from Nottingham forest fans and not derby fans. However, it's irrelevant, ck needs derby fans support and not abuse or else we will not have a club to support.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-chris-kirchner-abuse-7089417
The social media abuse mentioned is uncalled for.
I get that fans are anxious, but the club didn't enter administration for the sake of it, its 60 plus million in debt.
There are few interested in taking over the club, and of those that are, ck might very well be our last hope.
Why do people assume, the rumour about MA being interested in taking over the club has truth behind it. For all we know it's click bate, for a name that could potentially take over derby.
If MA was interested, why wasn't his name just as heavily linked to other clubs being taken over, clubs with less debt.
Never before has a club with 60 million plus debt, been placed into administration, a club that has a former owner that crazily doesn't want to sell a stadium he owns unless he gets compensated by more than 20 million on top of the debt he owns.
A former owner who only paid off boro, in order to help to try and get himself compensated faster, by attempting to expedite the purchase of the club.
If its not ck then who?
If MA really wanted Derby, why hasn't he come out in the press and said he's determined to take over the club and is out bidding ck in order to do so.
Ck says that a deal is a close, a lot of work is bring done behind the scenes thar he can't legally discuss until if at all, until after he's signed the contract.
Non disclosure agreements in business deals are common practice.
With the amount of debt in question, it takes time to buy something the size of Derby.
I hope that the social media abuse on ck is coming from Nottingham forest fans and not derby fans. However, it's irrelevant, ck needs derby fans support and not abuse or else we will not have a club to support.

Permanent transfers since Cocu joined:
19/20 - Bielik, Shinnie, Rooney
20/21 - Jozwiak, Ibe, te Wierik, Byrne, Marshall, Kazim
21/22 - Baldock, Stearman, Allsop, Jagielka, Ravel
I think on the whole, that's not bad given our restrictions

I'm not looking forward to League One.
I'm not looking forward to the team we are likely to be able to afford to field next season.
I'm not confident we will be promoted in the first season in League one.
I'm looking forward to seeing the team saved, and a huge rebuild.