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How can the administrators be accused of mismanagement, if bidders are not prepared to submit bids to clear the bar that is not their fault.

How can the administrators be accused of mismanagement, if bidders are not prepared to submit bids to clear the bar that is not their fault.

How can the administrators be accused of mismanagement, if bidders are not prepared to submit bids to clear the bar that is not their fault.

Morris has been attempting to flog the club for ages prior to him dumping it into administration. 

Not even arguably- it's absolutely right for the club to be punished further if they shaft their creditors, including the taxpayer.

We're going to have to tolerate further punishment by the EFL if the bids don't meet the threshold for creditor repayment (and arguably rightly so).

If it's Mel Morris then I'm sorry but that is the absolute final straw for me.
That man took over a club in the play off final on the brink of the premier League and had left us with no assets, no young players and on the brink of league one with a very probable 15 point deduction as well as currently having 5 players contracted to us next season.
This is a man that wouldn't answer the phone to Rooney to such an extent that Rooney had to call from the club doctor's phone and then Mel answered straight away.
This club has been rotten to the core since this man took over and the only good thing to come out of this absolute horror show is that he will no longer be anywhere near this football club.
Rooney doesn't like him and clearly has no time for him. The amount of effort, heart, passion, desire that these players, Rooney and the coaching staff have put in this season despite all the circumstances, all the issues. These have all been caused by one man.
If he was to takeover or be part of any consortium taking over that would be a smack in the face to all that these players have done. When he's put us in this position solely to reduce the debt he's caused.
The man is a spineless, gutless piece of work and I want him nowhere near this football club ever again.

It would be nice. I don't like all this hate. I'd suggest if Mel is willing to clear the debts and drop the keys to the ground off - and then physically carry the preferred bidder from the centre spot of Pride Park up the stairs to the directors box, then we should all agree to wipe the slate clean. And I hope it's Mike Ashley.

What are you expecting for the next couple of seasons?

Quite a few on here need to have a go at doing this...

He's fit as a butchers dog, ask @Mostyn6, who noted his muscular physique bulging against his clothing. 
You make it sound like he's on his last legs. 
As for the manager's, you know full well he sacked McClaren twice.
He certainly didn't put any obstacles in Rowetts way when Stoke made their move, either. He couldn't believe his luck, and probably bundled him into the car and drove him to Stoke himself.
The reality is, he got sick of losing cash hand over fist, not unreasonably, and placed us into administration to stem his losses. 
He had one job, and one job only as custodian, and that was to leave the club in no worse state than he found it.
He failed miserably in that, due to his ego, impatience and a bloody minded-ness that wouldn't accept a correction was needed. 
 

Or HMRC

What are you expecting for the next couple of seasons?

I think people underestimate just how many fans we would lose getting relegated and starting on minus points, especially as we don't know what we can anticipate to do in the transfer market. I'd imagine that starting on minus points and further restrictions, particularly financial, is going to result in further transfer embargos and restrictions. 
The four players contracted for next season: Sibley, Bielik, Knight and Bird won't want to be pissing around wasting some of their most important career years in League One when all are well above and beyond that level. I also doubt Rooney and co will be here next season too. 
A new owner unwilling (maybe even unable) to pay unsecured creditors 25p in the £1 to avoid further sanctions also worries me. I'm concerned, should that happen, that we have plenty more years of austerity ahead of us which ultimately starves fanbases into apathy.

I honest to God cannot fathom what he is up to.
Best I can imagine is, if he sells the stadium for what is being offered, he loses money.
So, if he has teamed up with someone or some people and said, you buy the club for 10p in the pound, or whatever it would be and he provides the stadium for a fair rental, he can service any MSD debt and still sit on a stadium worth 80 million.
As much as I cannot stand the man and for everything he has done, 1% of me thinks he might actually be trying to do something that helps the club.
 
 

Or HMRC

Or HMRC

Folk will only have got their hopes up if they’d foolishly read “select a preferred bidder” as “announce a preferred bidder”.
Can’t wait for the usual barrage of “another missed deadline” posts.

Rightly or wrongly I have assumed that Q know that none of the bids will pass muster so after a kind of 'Best and Final Offer' appeal to any and all bidders and interested parties they have wrung every last drop they can out of this with view to saying - here you go, this is the best we can do. I can't in truth see a bid ticking enough boxes without MM doing something unexpected.

I can't believe he's getting stick over this move. 
He's in the last couple of months under contract, to a club that can offer no guarantee of existing in a few months time, never mind being in a position to offer him an extended contract!
If reports are to believed, he's found himself a new club, picked up a €1m signing on fee, and €1.25 million in wages for the next 5 years.
We can't offer him anything, what would you do in that situation?
 

I'm actually really pleased for Festy, this is a great move at a critical point in his career. He's come in and done everything he can for us, turned down a move in Jan to help our fight for survival and has bagged a moved abroad (or to Watford via abroad, so at least he'll get to stay in the Championship as things stand).
No way could we realistically expect him, or indeed anyone else out of contract, just to sit and wait to see how this chaos (and I'm being polite) pans out as the weeks and months roll by. They've got their careers and lives to think about.
So thanks Festy, you've come in and done a great job in stupid circumstances. Good luck to you and I'm glad to see a Derby product stepping up another level. Don't worry about us, we'll survive. Perhaps.

I haven't been on too much last few days, but a quick glance here and on Twitter, it seems Ebosele has gone from the saviour of DCFC to useless and someone we can do without very quickly.
Whether he goes on to be a world-beater or fades into obscurity, he has been a breath of fresh air, exciting and given his all this season. He shouldn't be blamed for securing a new contract at a Serie A club (regardless of whether he's loaned out to Watford).
I understand the deal was signed off 2-3 weeks ago, having turned down offers personally in January. That is entirely fair enough in our current circumstances.
I wish him well, thank him for his contribution to DCFC and hope to see him go on to greater things.

Your ‘point’ is an assumption based on perception, that’s driven by media. 
Of course I’m assuming you haven’t met his agent? It’s quite possible he’s known him since he was 14. Spent time with him and his family building a relationship which is why he’s still his agent at 20. You have no solid information whatsoever that he or any other agent is greedy other than perception. 
The agents job, what he gets huge sums of money for, is to try to assist the player to have the longest, most successful and financially secure career possible and to secure that future as soon as possible.
He was faced with a player being at a club who could offer him no contract. He was also faced with sitting and waiting until they could (risking a career ending injury with no contractual cover) and then being a League 1 player, or leaving for a fee that the club receive instead of the player receiving or options limited due to the fee Derby (the business) place on his head in their valuation. 
Or….secure him a contract at a Serie A club, one of the very elite leagues in Europe, with a healthy signing on fee, with a contract paying a handsome wage and security for the foreseeable future.
Like it or not, taking the emotion out of the decision, his agent has done the very best for Festy. His client. Of course he got paid for it. He’s done his job bloody well.
 
 

I don't think the administrators could stretch the funds to buying a pair of binoculars

I wish i could really agree with you that players will want to play for us because of our name and tradition but sadly i don't think that is the case anymore, you can't live on history, all we are now, it seems, is that we are a club in trouble and i apologise if anyone thinks that is a negative view but that's how it looks. If a new owner gets the club with a -15 point start that means the EFL can still put a constraint on the wages we can offer. If we can't entice them with a competitive wage they will look elsewhere. It is not just like we need a few players to bring the squad up to depth we need virtually a complete new squad. I don't envy any manager with the task they face whichever league we are in.