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2 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:
After two years, De Zerbi is leaving Brighton, apparently by "mutual consent". They're a good club in terms of succession planning, and he was an amazing candidate to take them off after Graham Potter left. Now he's being linked with Bayern or Barca and they're not standing in his way, showing other managers who might look to come next, that they understand they're a stepping stone to a bigger job, but it can be a win-win for both parties.
Wonder where they'll find his replacement?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjeed3g258eo.amp
PW !!?? 😂😂
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12 minutes ago, Elwood P Dowd said:
Sorry simply because Bolton went through similar issues to ourselves.
But they have bucket loads of cash now ..🤷
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And they spent 2m on their strike force ..🤷😳😎
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18 minutes ago, Alty_Ram said:
I've no particular beef with Bolton but they just didn't turn up here. Oxford are worthy winners.
I have no beef with them. But they are arrogant w@nkers.
Big club my arse- u can’t live on the Sam Allaryce years for ever..
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9 mins seems a bit excessive
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Thomason booked 22 times this season !! How is that possible !? Grief.
And we thought Sibs was a bad tackler … 😳
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Charles and Sheehan both taken off! Shows how bad the Bolton plan has gone !
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Desperately want BW to screw this up…. But don’t think this is anywhere near over. Oxford can’t press so well for a full 90 and Bolton will score…
Come on Oxford !!
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3 minutes ago, Andrew3000 said:
Dignified exits for Smith & Hourihane, two model professionals who would not really contribute in the Champ. Wierd exit for Wildsmith.
I honestly dk how Forsyth gets an extension triggered from last seasons appearances.
I think he had the option of a one year extension…
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Just hope that the thinking isn’t that Vickers becomes the number 1- but knowing his connection with PW I suspect this may be the case. Even more so with Loach leaving- so a new number 2 (only) required ?
JW clearly didn’t want to be part of the ongoing project- maybe he just wanted or felt he deserved more money. At the end of the day he did well for us and we wish him well- but it’s not a disaster.
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We seem to have become obsessed with signing players in the 22-28 age group and with good sell-on credentials…
All well and good, but to me the priority is getting players in who can keep us up/make us competitive and maybe in the second season make a run for promotion…
30 year olds will work just fine- if we go up we build again….
Jim Smith took us up and competitive with some older players…
Champo emphasizes more skill/composure than outright athleticism for 90 mins unlike L1….
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Surely a relegated Rotherham !???
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5 hours ago, Abu Derby said:
When Bolton fail to get promoted they’ll have a few players who may interest us. That Dion Charles for one and that other bloke - Collins.
Sheehan !
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On 05/05/2024 at 11:55, Mucker1884 said:
Interesting!
Maybe we don't need such a massive rebuild after all.
You 'avin' that, Dave?
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They are much better than us.
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It’s going to be a massive rebuild and with it comes massive risk. The new players ( of which there will be many) will probably take a good while to gel and that could quite easily lead to a bad start to the season results wise. A bit like the past season but maybe worse…
Not all the signings will be a success cos that’s how football works.
We will need to be patient and understanding. If CBT can find his feet in the championship that would be a massive plus and almost like a new player on the books given how little he contributed last term.
Ditto to a slightly less extent Bradley- cos if he’s not up to the Champo we will be desperately short of central defensive players. Mind u, I am still hearing that Fozzy will be with us for another year….(hopefully then coaching staff )…
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Is it confirmed that Wildsmith didn’t join the lads on the Vegas jaunt ?
If so then that would definitely suggest he’s on the move…. I think Johansson is probably as good but will cost us- mind u, JW would now require another signing on fee if he did stay with us- and that could be expensive.
Several players haven’t been seen in the sneak vids and postings from Vegas… anyone else we definitely know didn’t go !!?
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17 hours ago, TomTom92 said:
Was just starting to go through the gears and then he missed that sitter at Wycombe. The fact we drew and at the time it looked a costly error probably didn’t do him any favours.
Then he fell out the team and the nature of the rest of the matches meant he hardly got a kick.
Clean slate for next season and hopefully he can do a job in some capacity.And what a miss it was 😎
What was out worst miss in the season ? Waggy pushes for the top as does Collo ..😊 Some real clangers in there 😂
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49 minutes ago, sage said:
Foul. I agree with Brian.
Obstruction rule completely ignored and forgotten by refs. All the goals in the Ars vs Spurs game were blatant blocking/fouls on the Spurs keeper…
Interesting that Nelson started doing it for us as well in the closing games of the season..
They are fouls, pure and simple.
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Wash was barely adequate for L1 and certainly not good enough for the Champ. But hard to see who would take him off our hands- best we can hope for is a loan out for the season where we still pay a good proportion of his wages.
Love Waggy but he has to go too. Same with TJJ. We need some real quality strikers… probably two.
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I do worry that going forward we just won’t have the resources to effectively compete in the Champo. Obviously we don’t expect top 6 straight away but the fact is we need to replace a number of players and move on some who are only really L1 level. We have some catching up to do and it’s going to cost.
Clowes has talked of trying to attract new investment and us getting promoted should help with that. But it seems to me that we need someone else to come in and assist money-wise and in truth that is in reality putting in their own money and not looking for a return- just like Lionel Pickering did (why isn’t there a statue of him by the way !!??).
We can be clever with frees etc but the bottom line is that we will have to pay fees for most of the quality players we need.
With our current (and it’s a sensible ) business model of only funding expenditure from direct revenue I just don’t see us having sufficient resources to get those players we need. Time will tell of course….
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Summer transfer suggestion thread
in Derby County Forum
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Danish goalkeepers all over the place it seems ! Must be the Schmeichel effect…