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A freelance journalist, the link with boro made me laugh.. 

A freelance journalist, the link with boro made me laugh.. 

A freelance journalist, the link with boro made me laugh.. 

Indeed... I'm not sure if this journalist has quite read the room! 

A freelance journalist, the link with boro made me laugh.. 

A freelance journalist, the link with boro made me laugh.. 

Having being trying to catch up with this thread, almost impossible due mis/information. The reality is:-
a) the takeover is being hampered by spurious claims,
b) those claims are from Middlesbrough/Wycombe,
c) Gibson is trying to suggest he is compromising a good claim,
 
d) reality is, he is a charlatan trying to make the best out of a bad claim by putting pressure on the administrators.
e) he panicked and got caught out and sent a less than professional PR message to the press. 
 
All the above and probably more,

I do think that the EFL want (need?) these claims to go away as much as we do.
But they have taken legal advice which probably tells them it is outside their remit to make that call so they have been pushing us to go to arbitration. We appear to have somewhat reluctantly agreed to this at last.
I now hope that right-minded independent legal experts will agree with us and the growing media calls for common sense to prevail.
Although I am anxious about it, I do think it's the only way we will move on from the current situation.

EXCL: #ssn can reveal Derby County have appointed Wayne Rooney as manager on a 2 and a half year deal which run until the summer of 2023. 1 source claims he's never seen a better appointment.

Yeah, this has been known for months.. How can he say exclusive!? 

What a statement from Rooney, so refreshing, simple and honest. If only our manager in early 2015 had done the same when we were top of the league... Hindsight. 

What a statement from Rooney, so refreshing, simple and honest. If only our manager in early 2015 had done the same when we were top of the league... Hindsight. 

#COYR

What a statement from Rooney, so refreshing, simple and honest. If only our manager in early 2015 had done the same when we were top of the league... Hindsight. 

What a statement from Rooney, so refreshing, simple and honest. If only our manager in early 2015 had done the same when we were top of the league... Hindsight. 

6 minutes and 25 seconds of nothing, I am no more or no less the wiser as to what the meeting was about, A very pointless excersize from a fans POV.

I just keep thinking that the EFL has the power to say Boro and Wycombe are not football creditors which would allow the sale to be completed. Is that correct? If so, shouldn't we be pressing MPs to force the EFLs hand?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/17448932/nottingham-forest-joao-carvalho-olympiacos-championship-2/
 
Forest are conveniently 'selling'  carvalho to olympiacos according to the Sun.. Undisclosed amount ?

Well somebody tell the Administrators to pick it up off the table and read it. Sheesh.

Not the number of months we've been under embargo over the past 4 years (which is almost 30 months), but the number of months since our U18s won the 18/19 League title, after beating an Arsenal side featuring Bakary Saka 5-2 in the Final. The young Rams also finished 8 points ahead of a Manchester United side which contained Mason Greenwood.
 
From that squad, 11 have played for our first team making a combined 419 appearances.
Those still with us and are in and around the first team:
McDonald - 8 first team apps.
JBrown - 4 first team apps.
Cashin - 3 first team apps.
Buchanan - Still only 20 but has already played 60 times.
Bird - With him making 97 appearances for the Rams, he'll be hoping to make his 100th app for the club in Feb
Thompson - Missed just 12 minutes of football since coming into the side against Bournemouth, the first of his 11 appearances.
Knight - An almost ever present in the first team since the start of the following season. He has already made 100 apps and scored 11 in the process.
Sibley - Still only 20 but has 7 goals and 4 assists in his 65 first team apps.
Festy - Already a fan favourite after 23 appearances.
Stretton - Limited to just 15 appearances given his injury troubles.
Some are still with us but are yet to play for the first team:
Dixon - Named on bench twice.
Wilson - Named on bench twice.
Matthews - yet to feature in a matchday squad.
Notable players who have since departed the club:
Whittaker - 32 appearances for Derby before moving on to Swansea where he scored 5 in 22 apps. He's currently on loan at Lincoln City where he has scored 1 in 3.
Delap - Left the club in summer 2019 for Man City, he has played for their first team on 3 occasions scoring once.
And the handful of others who have left:
Charles - Joined Mansfield and played twice, who loaned him out to York City where he made 4 apps
Archie Brown - Move to Switzerland in the summer just gone to play for Lausanne-Sport. Has made 2 apps, and a further 2 out on loan.
French
Foster
Minkley
Nto
Splatt
Greco

Got to drive to pick the missus up at 5.20. After that, ill be pulling a beer up and spamming Boro fans all ducking evening.
I imagine the single malt will be about by 9pm and ill be banned form multiple sites by 10pm.
 

Here's a copy of the letter I sent earlier 

I don't post that often here but I honestly think as fans we should email /phone middlesbrough football club en masse and politely appeal to their human instincts and ask them to stop this madness. Their fans can see it, surely the staff and even players can see it, it's like there is one megalomaniac at the top that will not budge but nobody wants to upset him in case he tells them off! 
Has anybody sent an email to them? have we got a temple with the key points and facts? Sorry if something has already been posted 

You know, I’m getting more and more inclined to favour liquidation rather than pay those two anything at all. Am I bad?

What have Quantuma done? They didn’t just release a statement on Friday night, they released a hand grenade which has exploded spectacularly, fans have latched onto it creates momentum and within 2 working days parliament are involved. They’ve not spoken because they haven’t needed to.
EFL have nearly spontaneously combusted with their statement last night. Basically implied their insolvency rules are open to interpretation and subject to change, in other words they make it up as they go along ???
Boro come out today citing systematic cheating as the basis for their claim on a set of arguments already settled and ruled upon by disciplinary commissions (ie stadium sale) and also the same arguments as the case they brought to the LAP which was ruled against, no systematic cheating was found in ANY of the judgements in the original IDC, subsequent LAP, and final IDC ruling, all they have is subjective opinion.
Wycombe, while RD gave Couhig the platform to prove he’s a sharp lawyer, they also let him reveal his reasons for the action, which proves they absolutely have no case at all because the IDC did not rule on the Derby sanction, the fine of £100k and the restatement of accounts until after the season had ended, therefore there is no way the points could have been applied earlier, the whole process we also know was delayed by Boro’s failed action, the LAP judgement told us this.
They have all questioned the actions of Quantuma, of course they are going to!! They want to deflect from the weakness of their arguments and all those parties are concerned about how they’re being portrayed. Are Quantuma bothered, maybe/maybe not but it’s not about saving public face it’s about getting a deal done no matter how dirty it gets. They’ve not spoken to Boro and Wycombe because they don’t believe the claims and have a legal way around them potentially, so they weren’t priority, doing a deal with HMRC was absolute priority, while Pauline Latham said we wasn’t entirely happy about her meeting with the administrators, I’m sure I read another post say she believes it has implied Quantuma have a deal with HMRC. In fact we go back to Quantuma’s statement last Friday and that also implies they have a deal in place with everyone (or at least a route forward) except Boro and Wycombe. The events of the last few days have refocused everyone and led all parties to say they’re willing to come to the table to try and sort this out - maybe that is what they wanted and exactly what was needed.
The MPs are now challenging ALL parties to get this deal done and that is the right approach and Quantuma will be under pressure to deliver on their requirements.