Ramewe

The thing is we can't give up. We have to keep fighting and making sure that our voices are heard.

In my opinion, and I fight tears as I type, I think we are screwed.
I was given hope yesterday and this morning when seeing MPs and business leaders, famous people etc rallying behind our cause.
That statement says it all. 
The EFL should just realise a 3 word statement...
"Because We Can"
Boro and Wycombe are dogs with bones.
The EFL aren't growing a back bone and clearly not willing to help us.
No one wants to commit to buying us.
The administrators are proving to be absolutely terribly incompetent.
If Shinnies deal is anything to go by, we have a lot of work to do to raise the money needed in 2 weeks.
It feels like there are too many things that need to fall into place at once and the administrators are desperately running out of time.
 
 

Their rules allow them to wage a vendetta against a club but then deny they're waging a vendetta by pointing out that they're just following their rules.
Classic.

Vendetta - there are countless examples
1. Brought a case against the club for PP sale and amortisation policy after signing both off. Had incompetent experts witnesses. Were forced into doing this by the muppet Gibson.
2. LAP finds us gulity of over estimating player values without an accounting expert on the panel. 
3. Having us over the barrel when we went into admin, and having to accept a 9 point deduction. Reading only got 6. 
4. Transfer Embargo and not being able to play some academy players, when Reading can go out and get Drinkwater and Carroll.
5. Now this crap, having to sell players to survive until the end of the season, because of stupid claims.
In conclusion a vendetta yes.

Well you can see that statement's been rushed, to say the least!
Some of it we already know:
We have people willing to become a PB if a decision can be made regarding the 'Boro/Wycombe claims (paraphrasing there, obviously). Some points just beggar belief:
"Integrity of the competition"... how does effectively forcing us to sell all of our players stand alongside this? Will any teams that we've already taken 4-6 points off this season have a claim against the EFL? Also to have sections titled "Is the EFL acting unlawfully", "Is there a conflict of interest..." and "Does the EFL have a vendetta against Derby County"; this just shows how badly this whole affair has been handled. As has been mentioned by others before, a 10pm statement like that comes across as if they're scared... keep up the pressure people, it's working.

Keep pushing guys and gals. 
 
Their bottom lip is starting to quiver 

Erm...

 
then this

 
Essentially - Our insolvency policy is uselessly vague and we have no idea how to apply it.
We are a complete waste of space and we have completely destroyed the integrity of the competition through our own incompetence
 
Your Sincerely
The EFL 
 
 
 

As with all things some of us are taking the statement as a positive, some a negative, and some Sat on the fence.
For me I think it’s a great reflection on the change in narrative over the last few days. The spotlight is edging closer towards our plight and the role of the EFL around that, the increased noise on social media, in the media, from our fans and fans of other clubs, as well as MPs weighing in has forced the EFL to give their most wordy statement yet on the matter. It doesn’t tell us any solutions, it doesn’t consign us to the history books, it does show they’re rattled and need to defend their stance which is exactly what we want. Stating they have no vendetta and that they’re being fair and neutral (yeah right) should mean they now have to be, they’ve publicly outed themselves and will be rightly called out further for more contradictory behaviour. Keep the faith gang ? 

Hahahaha, I can't believe they actually did a paragraph clarifying they don't have a vendetta against us. Has any league ever had to clarify it isn't openly acting against one of it's members before? It says it all. 

Have the EFL released a statement about how they don't have a vendetta against all the other member clubs. Or is it just us?
Funny that.
They want us gone. Keep on fighting. People are seeing them for what they are. Mainstream journos will lap it up but those who aren't blinded by greed know exactly what is going on.

Yes so as their statement says  they have the right to 'review and amend' procedure for each individual case.
Get on with it then you utterly morally bankrupt bankers!

10pm statement, they're flapping. What the fans are doing is working. They're feeling the pressure. 

Nope - get up tomorrow pal and keep making noise.  It’s worth it!

Also an admittance, from themselves, that their “Articles and Insolvency Policy” is open to interpretation.
What are they doing? How can they have so many regulations that are open to interpretation, and if it is, how can Quantuma’s interpretation of it be wrong?!
Utterly, utterly incompetent and a stain on the sport.

Having to specifically deny that you don't have a vendetta against a member of your organisation doesn't really suggest good things about your organisation.

3 observations:
1. DCFC, MFC, and WWFC have presumably submitted cases to the EFL.  There is a hold up here whilst the EFL is considering those cases which, by their own admission in the statement, is causing a delay in a final bidder moving forwards.  If any party has failed to submit a case, I would hope that is viewed harshly.
2. Assuming the above is addressed, and I would hope this is viewed as a matter of urgency, Mike Ashley or whoever can be confirmed as the PB.  Provided they provide an initial cash injection (possibly by way of deposit - we don't know how much the club already has) then the transfer embargo would be lifted.  If the PB wished, we could then deal in the window.
3. If, as a professional body, you have to publish a 10pm statement declaring you have no vendetta against a member, it would strongly suggest there is more than a whiff of a vendetta.  If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it's a duck.

My take away from that statement is their bums have gone. Where was this energy a month ago? Why has a paragraph become an essay? 
 
I think the impending government/national coverage will cause chaos. The language used in that statement tells you everything you need to know. 

The progress we’ve made has been so impressive. Every hour I’m on here or Twitter and there’s been some kind of development. 
 
We need to keep this level of commitment. Let’s keep pushing. 

One to buy, keep and look back on in better times (?).

My email to Andrew Brigdon
Hello Andrew
 
1st off i'd like to thank you for your help concerning Derby County FC
 
It would appear that the EFL are trying to pull the wool over your eyes, Middlesboro and Wycombe have no basis for a claim against Derby County, Middlesboro claiming they lost out on the playoffs in 2019 by 1 point, Why are they claiming now?, Is it because the EFL have had our pants down, They are not creditors, They have neither served us with any goods or services.
 
Wycombe Wanderers have just jumped on the bandwagon as their owner is a USA lawyer(ambulance chaser)and clinging to the back of Middlesboro in the hope of a payout, They were relegated last season, Their case should be against the EFL not Derby County.
 
Now the Crux of the matter, There was know way on earth were we able to stave off relegation having 21 points deducted, But by some minor miracle we are making a good fist of it, This would appear to have come to the notice of the EFL, So why have they all of a sudden blocked our preffered bidder, It's because without a bidder in place, We have no funds, If we have no funds we have to sell our players, If we sell our players it weakens our squad, Which has already lost 4 players due to saving wages, If our squad is weakened there is more than a good chance we WILL be relegated, Then the EFL have got there wish, If we can't produce proof of funds by Febuary 1st the closing of the transfer window, The EFL will look to withdrawing our membership of the Football League which could lead to liquidation.
 
There is no doubt in Derby County Fans minds that the EFL are being vindictive, If we were not making a good go of it, A preffered bidder would have been in place.
 
We've been puished by losing 21ppoints, We didn't complain, We took it on the chin, Now as I said the EFL want more than a pound of flesh, They want a carcus.
 
Thank you
UnluckyAlf

Some MPs are meeting with the administrators tomorrow so they will hear their side of the argument then.
I'd personally like to see the administrators and EFL being questioned at the same time so that they could challenge each other's spin. 
I have suggested this to RT, who have suddenly now been asked to meet with the EFL again.
The MPs won't know everything about the case but they are raising awareness and getting things moving.
 

So on the one hand, the Administrators are saying "We were going to name the Preferred Bidder but the EFL won't allow us to", and on the other hand, the EFL have told Andrew Bridgen (and others) that... "the Administrators haven't named a Preferred Bidder".
Which one is closer to the truth, because at the moment, I don't believe anybody any more.

So liquidation is inevitable then?
Gibson and Wycombe won't back down.
EFL powerless/inept.
MPs fobbed off.
Bidders won't buy with the claims in place.
Mel won't help.
That's it then. Good for the nigh on 138 years that it lasted ?