Mihangel

4 minutes ago, Animal is a Ram said:

My guesses would be Buchanan and Bielik.

I hope for whichever players sake their names never come out. Some 'kin footballers ?. Vultures.

49 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

"Andy Appleby says his bid for Derby County is in its "final strokes" as he looks to save the club's future and seal a return to the Rams.

The American businessman conducted an interview with Crain's Detroit Business amid plans to expand the United Shore Professional Baseball League. In the piece, printed earlier today (Tuesday), Appleby did not go into full detail over his bid for Derby but told Crains in a six-word update: "It's down to the final strokes."

The publication also said that Appleby was optimistic about his bid and expects to learn the outcome this week."

This would make me happy.

24 minutes ago, Crewton said:

I agree. Whilst we all have a favourite perhaps, none of the reportedly interested parties are fronts for oppressive regimes, convicted criminals or have even been accused of drug smuggling, arson or match fixing, so I doubt anyone is going to have a mard-on if their own preference isn't successful. 

In fairness, it's a little more nuanced than that - It's no secret that I despise Mike Ashley and his terrible employment practices but then I'm also no fan of CK's apparent alt-right tendencies. In the context of my football club though, I can only focus on what said person will do for the football club. A lot has been said about Ashley and his job at Newcastle but the facts are that in the season before he bought them, they finished 13th in the PL. In the last season under Ashley, they finished 12th in the PL. So in a very simplistic, non scientific football only analysis, he left them where he found them. That wouldn't be good news for us.

In terms of infrastructure spending, Newcastle under Ashley between 2010 and 2020 spent £7m on repairs on maintenance, comfortably bottom of the PL table, the academy there is apparently not fit for purpose. A repetition of this would be a disaster for us.

In short, I would be disappointed if Ashley is are new owner, will be mardy about it? Probably. I certainly would love to see some commitment to infrastructure spending.

1 minute ago, TuffLuff said:

There is a Rams Review interview with Andy Appleby probably from a year ago saying he wasn’t interested in buying Derby at the time but was setting up a business with the intention of buying failing sports teams and turning them round. I’ll link it (if I was Rams Review I’d currently be ramming it down everyone’s neck) on a separate post in a minute 

Yeah, I think that's a pretty succinct description of where we are!

I would be very happy if Appleby and co get the gig. They will have a very steady hand at the tiller, we don't need loads and loads of money spent, this club will be competitive in L1 with a strong academy and decent crowds.

17 minutes ago, cosmic said:

Am I missing something? What are they angry for? 

Probably how we've engineered a situation where we've got no players, have been relegated, on the cusp of going out of business. You can see their point, they've all been hard done by and we've been shown such favouritism.

3 minutes ago, kevinhectoring said:

No way will Ashley pay creditors 90%

Very smart, cap doffed.

6 minutes ago, I DONT MIND said:

He is not the registered owner on the paperwork, believe me i have access to the database. EJM operate an exclusive lease system a little like buying a car on PCP.

No. The have owned planes placed with them. They do also offer charter services but this isn't the case with CK. Have a look around at all the very wealthy and who their jets are registered with, Bill Gates as an sample...

You do realise that these registers are in the public domain right? You have access to the 'database', so does everyone else on the planet with internet access!

3 minutes ago, I DONT MIND said:

I Don't believe he actually owns the plane, it is on lease i believe from Executive Jet management Inc.

Still not cheap.

He does, EJM are are a jet management company (the clue's in the name), they handle licensing, registration, maintenance, flight planning etc etc because people who aren't aviation professionals don't tend to know how to do that....

15 minutes ago, Gaspode said:

Mate - we've got the message that you don't like Ashley - how about you give your crusade a bit of a rest now?.....

Point taken. This was more of thing about the EFL but maybe didn't read like that ?

Somebody has got their hand up the EFL's backside, I sincerely hope that CK trumps up the money soon so that whoever it is (and I think we'd all have our suspicions), disappears.

1 hour ago, Ramarena said:

To be fair I think everyone is well aware of Ashley’s employment “practices”

Fair point, agreed.

1 hour ago, Mckram said:

I worked for Mike Ashley for 5 years so can form my own opinion of him. 

Indeed but, literally, thousands of employees think negatively of his employ, whereas, literally, a handful of negative reviews do Slync have to turning against CK. Just saying you should judge them on the same merits.

5 minutes ago, Abu Derby said:

If Kirchoff has his own aeroplane then I doubt if baggage allowance comes into play. Then why didn’t he fill several suitcases with £50 notes, fly directly to EMA and then get the DCFC minibus to collect him?

It’d all be sorted by now. Anyone can see how easy things can be - if only he’d thought things through properly. 

He'd have to be careful, EMA from Fort Worth is at the upper end of the G550 range, £20,000,000 in £50 would weight approximately 400kg, plus the suitcases, with wings full of fuel, he might need to empty the drinks cabinet ?

26 minutes ago, Mckram said:

Not saying he’s my pick as I wouldn’t be happy with -15 points, but if he was to take over then I think I’d be optimistic in where we would be in 3-5 years time. If I’m honest, Kirchner scares me a lot as it’s just all so unknown and if you read Slync’s staff reviews of Kirchner on Glassdoor it’s concerning. Appleby is a good medium for me, tried and tested but (hopefully) without -15 points.

It seems odd to criticise CK based upon Glassdoor reviews but not to apply the same standard to, of all people, Mike Ashley?

47 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:

Good morning folks. 
 

Quick Question:

why is MA seen here as a previously successful football club owner? 
 

My opinion is that he took an established PL team down with bad management appointments. Gave out novelty Contracts. Ruined Derby’s promotion push by unsettling McClaren, stunk up the PL by not buying decent players and then finally succeeded by selling them to a country. 

He also invested 0 (zero) in infrastructure - Academy, stadium etc - That would be a depressing vision.

2 minutes ago, KBB said:

Rubbish.

Nope, that's 100% what I'd rather happen.

34 minutes ago, EraniosSocks said:

Ashley don’t need us, we need Ashley 

Nah, Mike Ashley, if you're reading this, we don't want you....

Obv he won't be, but I'd rather we go defunct and start again than have that CJTC own us.

2 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

But as others have mentioned, why has CK invested time and money coming to Derby if he wasn’t serious? Why pay for all the lawyer fees? It doesn’t make much sense at all. 

Agreed, entirely. He's either been unlucky or we're on a long list of people he's defrauded because a lot of money has been spent.

4 minutes ago, dajstrawb said:

RD currently chatting about Dinosaurs

Well we know Mike Ashley is interested!

20 minutes ago, TuffLuff said:

Bit of a strange one all round, thought he came across well on the radio but it’s all the other stuff surrounding BAWT I have no time for. 

Yeah, I found the telegram group absolutely nauseating and full of self importance.

1 minute ago, TuffLuff said:

BAWT making their founder resign should mean they lose the ‘together’ part of their name. 

What happened? I appear to have been booted out of their Telegram group? ?

1 minute ago, Animal is a Ram said:

Once again, for those at the back...

 

Filed with "How come the Chelsea purchase went through so quickly, that was worth £5 Gazillion, AML wasn't a problem for them?"

8 minutes ago, Sheff Ram said:

Looking at all these pages of posts of second guessing and speculation about the what if's, which as fans in this position we're naturally bound to do, brings one key thing home. 

OK, we all know this has been and is a VERY complex and difficult situation. We know it will take time. But what has been and is needed is a clear coms strategy. Tell us what we need to know in a clear and simple way at the appropriate time. After all, we are key stakeholders. We are the future customers that will keep this business afloat.

On this count, the two main players in this, the EFL and Q have failed. If it was a GCSE in Communication Studies, they would have both got an E grade. And don't even start me on MM.

Absolutely, the legal guardians of the club and the regulator, the EFL's behaviour in particular, continues to be shocking.

8 minutes ago, Rev said:

It only occurred to me tonight, as I was sat on the bog listening, and I use the term loosely, the present Mrs Rev moan about her day while in the bath, that as an employee of a UK subsidiary of an American bank with 20+ years service she may be able to shed some light on events.

She basically demolished the supposed reasons for the hold up, such as the crypto element, which would have been poured over by the IRS when CK cashed in his chips, delays caused by new accounts in either country, and the AML checks in either country. 

She thinks CK is full of moonshine, and his takeover isn't going to happen. 

I'd love her to be wrong, but it's a long shot if experience tells me anything.

Nah, the IRS would only have been interested, obviously, in any taxable element of the bitcoin sale. The AML part is unavoidable, whichever way you look at it, and would be complicated by all the factors you mentioned. Doesn't mean CK will turn out to be anything but they are all important factors.