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Fingers crossed he accepts.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/next-everton-manager-roberto-martinez-25963084

1 minute ago, Yani P said:

Martinez 6/4

Rooney 4/1

 

Even better news..

I think Everton have bigger ambitions and will want a manager with a bit more of a proven record of success. Hiring Ancelotti was an example of this, so Martinez makes more sense in this respect.

7 minutes ago, Ewe Ram said:

Twitter is actually worth reading today. There seems to be a groundswell of support, and not before time 

Yeah, the support is everywhere today, it's really heart warming to see.

North West Leicestershire MP.

Seeing a lot of non-Derby fans also coming through with their support. Nobody in football wants to see any football team disappear.

I've seen some true Forest fans backing us, thing is whether they like it or not Derby is part of their history as well.

21 minutes ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

23,319 dickpics will do that

23,320 now as I've just sent this. 

34 minutes ago, DCFC1388 said:

So I sent an email to the supposed Rick Parry, reply seems legit like others have said with the efl advertising on the bottom.

My email - 

Hi Mr Parry,

 

I am sure you have received plenty of emails from worried/angry/upset Derby fans.

 

I would like to think as a founding member of the football league the EFL would be doing as much as they can to stop us going into liquidation.

 

There have been many articles & statements, resulting in a lot of anger, confusion & contradictions.

 

Can you confirm the following -

 

1. Has the club been given a deadine of 1st Feb to prove funds? And will be removed from the league if not provided?

 

2. Have Middlesbrough & Wycombe both officially made claims against us or are they still only threats that they will? Do you know the value of the claims?

 

3. Can a preferred bidder be named & we exit administration with the Middlesbrough & Wycombe claims still ongoing? Providing the new owner is happy to take these claims on.

 

Any clarity for us Derby fans would be greatly appreciated.

 

Many thanks

The below is my response - 

 

Well that's positive, hope it's genuine. It wouldn't surprise me the amount of rubbish coming from the media (local papers don't help as well, thought they actually supported Derby). I wonder if that the fact we have Rooney as our manager is causing all these rumours, don't get me wrong I am more than happy with Rooney but it makes you think would the papers and media in general be spilling so much bile if say Liam Rosenior was the manager?

Rooney = Clicks

Scaremongering =  Clicks

Rooney + Scaremongering = ££££££££££££

Personally I'm a fan of Derby City if anything we don't have to change the domain name here :)

But seriously I joke to hide the tears, I'd be heartbroken if it came to this. 

Maybe Bradley Johnson has a DeLorean and we become Derby City

21 minutes ago, StrawHillRam said:

It seems to me that the potential buyers want the stadium at less than market value, that’s were they see   the real value, not in the club itself. I may be wrong 

Mel saw this too.

Possible but at present what is the stadium without the football team? I actually hope in the future we do utilise the potential revenue the stadium could generate a bit more.

Bring the stadium bands back, it's been 15 years since Red Hot Chili Peppers played there, would love to see a return to this along side the football of course.

6 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

Agreeing to pay them off would be the end of the football league as an entity. The competition would have no integrity and on a practical level, who's going to do stuff like referee games in an environment where some chancer could throw a lawsuit at you for wrongly awarding a corner etc?

If Gibson succeeds, the whole edifice will crumble.

So A.

This is actually a very good point, think of all the wrong decisions in football. Should have been offside, was a clear handball etc. 

If this was to go ahead it would open the doors to suing every wrong decision in football.

From Sky Sport regarding Mike Ashley.

On Christmas Eve, Quantuma announced that a preferred bidder was "imminent". Sky Sports News has been told this announcement could happen in the next 48 hours.

48 HOURS??!!

5 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Still asking for the highlights of what it is you are objecting to with Ashley?

The glass half empty is he offers millions of zero hour contracts and minimum wages to his staff.

The glass half full is he offer millions of jobs to people across the country.

Thing is working for Sports Direct is nobodies dream but it's a job at the end of the day and I think people will be hard pushed to find any owner / CEO of the any chain on the high street that is any different.

Does it make it right? Nope but being a chain on the high street is not what it was in the 70s, 80s and 90s, ironically same can be said about Derby haha ;)

4 minutes ago, IslandExile said:

 

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I get that everyone is excited about the club being saved but does that mean we turn a blind eye to anything and everything?

It's not that long ago when the majority on here were calling out Newcastle fans for welcoming new owners with 'questionable' backgrounds/associations.

Fine, rah, rah, rah Mike Ashley, rah, rah, rah.

are you really comparing zero hour contracts and/or minimum wages to the abuse of human rights?

From what I gather these were Newcastle's biggest gripes with Ashley:

• Sports Direct everywhere (I'd rather visit the Sports Direct Stadium that we own, rather a stadium we don't)
• No ambition (Got close in the 90's now a mid-table Premier League, my heart bleeds...)
• Didn't spend big on players (They were record holders with Shearer and I think it went to their head, let's be honest even at Derby's peak for anyone under 40 we hardly splashed the cash. Stimac, Poom, Wanchope, Baiano, Eranio etc hardly broke transfer records but what excellent signings they were)

Bottom line is Ashley or no Derby County, I'd take Ashley.

Besides people wanted a billionaire takeover well...

BUT THAT'S NOT THE BILLIONAIRE I WANTED!! please... at least he's visited Derby, I'd imagine the Sheik thought we had something to do with either The Kentucky Derby or Demolition Derby on the ps1. 

4 minutes ago, NottsRammy said:

Come on RADIO Derby do you job and push on this

Just goes to show the calibre of local news, they should be pushing hard for answers, news that people want.

Yet they seem to be content on recycling the major papers rumours and/or making a whole article out of a couple sentences on Twitter:

How many times have we woke up to a post on our social feed with "Major Update" the first 3 out of 4 paragraphs are padding talking about the same stuff we've known for months, the point deduction, Kirchner pull out etc. Then at the very end of the article the "new" information on what Wayne Rooney tweeted about his dinner.

Local media is basically a glorified Press Gang now.

18 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

https://twitter.com/dcfcofficial/status/1479105480320499713?s=21

Good to see him back, not sure how ready he is but might be good idea to give him 10-15 mins against Cov.

I would say this is like a rollercoaster with many ups and downs but that would indicate some excitement is involved. It's more like queuing for the rollercoaster, you get near the front only to be told it's closed, try again tomorrow.

I wouldn't be too concerned about the quietness of remaining parties as well as the admin team regarding the preferred bidder, it's called professionalism (however I as well would like to see some movement very soon).

Let's be honest we wouldn't even know about the Chris "Like, Share & Subscribe" Kirchner bid and his withdrawal had it not plastered it all over Twitter.

The admins came out ASAP and nipped in the bud any media sensationalism who probably would have alluded to that we're finished as a football club and/or the admin team are farting around based just on Kirchner withdrawal tweet, when the reality is he got out bid, took his toys and went home.

DC United links wouldn't surprise me, nowadays it's becoming more common that owners have a sport portfolio of owned teams, especially if the name of the clubs are similar naming format (see City Football Group) so much better for branding purposes.

Rooney is currently in a no loss situation, we get relegated it was to be expected, if we stay up he will be a club legend, a miracle worker.

That said, it's just media clickbait rubbish, last month was Man Utd, this month Everton any guesses for Januarys linked club?

I like Rooney but should he go would it bother me? Not really, slight disappointment but if we could get Curtis Davis in as player/manager should that happen, along with the compensation we would receive from Everton it might actually work out well for us.

17 hours ago, B4ev6is said:

Next up QPR at home after that Blackpool and then we got Bristol city away. I think we could get at least all 9 points from these games.

What could we get a most? ?

In all seriousness, it's good to be confident but we have to be realistic it's a hell of an ask but if we pull it off this team and Wayne will probably go down in Derby County history.

19 questions and "answers" from the EFL, bloody hell that's means my social media feed is going to be swamped with at least 38 individual articles from both the Telegraph and Derbyshire Live on this matter.

I wrote off these past 2 games, so will be very happy with a point tomorrow. 4 from 6 against the two teams that seem to be steamrolling the Championship I'd take any day.

That said I probably would have took 3 from 6 but don't want to be that negative for tomorrows game.

Never really thought you could be offside in your own half about, so technically if it's a goal kick the opposing team all could all just stand on the goal line and any pass to an outfield player would be considered offside at that point?

I presume this could be legal as you can be offside for other dead ball scenarios such as a free kick.