jimtastic56

On what are you basing that assertion?
22/23, we lost £10M, some of which was due to the mess MM had put us in and the costs of getting us out of Admin. Virtually the same average gate in 23/24 and other income is likely to have been similar as the one before. I expect us, based on that, to have a loss on last season but a lower one than the season before. That would mean we lost £10M in 22/23 plus maybe half of that again last season.
Your statement that we can "spend £8m more on wages to have the same revenue/spending point" doesn't seem to add up. Sending the extra gate/TV money would likely see us make yet another loss. That's David Clowes' money we'd be losing. He might be said to be "worth" £250M but what most people fail to understand is that the vast majority of that "worth" is land, buildings, plant, machinery, a football ground etc.  Unfortunately it is NOT liquid assets he can fritter away.
If I've got this all wrong, I would be ecstatic if someone could explain to me how/why so that I can better understand the current state of play. I would appreciate any explanation taking into account the £36M we already owe David Clowes.

I wonder why we’d do that now? It made sense with CBT because of the allocated transfer pot vs loan pot with the restrictions. But if we are going to, for example, pay £300k to loan DI then sign him for free next year, why not pay £300k to buy him now?
We have 5 available loan slots in a match day squad, it wouldn’t make sense just to use one up in that way.

As others have said Daniel Iverson is a target, believe it’s similar to CBT deal of a loan to a free

Due to the proximity of housing around Moor Farm and I’m wondering if Big Trav lives in one of those and is a voyeur with binoculars and telescope. 
If I lived there I’d be peeping out from the curtains at every opportunity and then producing a daily report and publishing it on here. 

Regarding posh. Derbys best tactic would be to plant a spy on posh’s scouring network just so we can gazump them on all these small fry’s that end up being class.

Ignore the Doubters Trav. Your ITK record is beyond reproach.

Ignore the Doubters Trav. Your ITK record is beyond reproach.

Ignore the Doubters Trav. Your ITK record is beyond reproach.

He's already had two seasons in the championship where he was mostly excellent,he will actually be better in a league where there is a little more football played imo

I understand we should be harsh moving up to the champ, but sibley is a ram through and through, rarely injured and always gives 100% aswell as being able to cover a number of positions and roles. He is still only 22 and to replace desire, hard work and potential in today’s market can be costly. Definitely should be trying to keep him. 

It worked out ok for Leicester.

In Maguire's defence it was only brought up to answer a listener's question about Derby leaving administration.

Players are starting to be shown round moor farm, heard a few rumours but no concrete names

Sibley has divided opinion with us Rams fans . My view for what it’s worth - Sibley will start more Championship games next season than Bird . Hope it’s with us .( give me pelters next season if I am wrong )

Possibly a valid point about attracting players . But I would say Derbyshire is a lot better county than Derby is a city.

Possibly a valid point about attracting players . But I would say Derbyshire is a lot better county than Derby is a city.

Possibly a valid point about attracting players . But I would say Derbyshire is a lot better county than Derby is a city.

Brentford incrementally hoisted themselves from relative obscurity by recruiting players on a data based model of analysing player attributes, buying those that excel in footballing stats in relation to their playing positions and then selling them on when, surprise, surprise they repeated their statistical strengths at a higher level. 

Whilst some may scoff at this data-based approach, they got far more right than wrong and they're now in the Premier League and have made a profit on players of well north of £100m.

Bigger Premier League teams can afford to buy "off the peg" and mostly need instant results. We need to learn some lessons from Brentford if we want to slowly work our way back to the promised land. Mel mostly messed up by cherry picking some of the best players from our rivals, then trying to crowbar them into our team, ignoring the fact that we played a different style from the team we bought them from.

We've a long way to go before we can dream of a similar renaissance, but be more Brentford. Player stats are by no means perfect, but can lead you to spend your money wisely, and hit the jackpot of resales on a fairly frequent basis.

The first stat we should concentrate on is players who regularly are able to play 40+ games a year consistently.  At least you're not buying a " Maradonna for 5 games a season ".

Every penny will count this season. We're fairly lean now, with little debt. Not a time for risks.....

Whilst DC is our owner and funder, we'll always have to spend within our overall turnover budget. No sensible fan can ask him to dig deeper into his (comparitively small for this league) pockets. He's spent £50m+ saving us and we all love him for it.

Now we'll sink or swim on how wisely we spend that budget. The only way that may potentially change is with outside investment.

For now I - and I'd guess 99% of us will be happy to see what that budget will buy us in our first season back in this league.

Don't chuffing overspend though. We know where that got us. If it's not enough to keep us up so be it. I think it will be. But just accept, in our first season back, it could go either way.

Loving the ride. Within our means.

Possibly a valid point about attracting players . But I would say Derbyshire is a lot better county than Derby is a city.

Possibly a valid point about attracting players . But I would say Derbyshire is a lot better county than Derby is a city.

Possibly a valid point about attracting players . But I would say Derbyshire is a lot better county than Derby is a city.

How many teams go up and do perform major surgery though? He added 8 then 9 new signings after each of the first two promotions
For 2021/22 he kept 13 players who were part of a successful League One promotion season and added 9 new players including the likes of West Harding, that keeper we're supposedly after, George Hirst who's done well at Ipswich, Josefzoon who we signed for £3m after a good spell at Rotherham & Lewis Wing - it's not ike he had a poor squad, he also had a number of players who've since established themselves as Championship players (Wiles, Barlaser), had Ladapo probably in his prime and a couple who've just stayed up with Sheff Weds.
I'd argue that this upcoming season is the most difficult he's had in his career, this past season the most straightforward 

We need at least one and perhaps 2 top strikers, and a midfield general, and should be looking at the stats charts to find the
rest - no big names, just 26/27 yr olds, fit solid and reliable, with no major injuries,  loans  where possible 😆

That’s too weird