Nuwtfly Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Surely I'm not the only one who heard this and thought....wtf is it then? We've spent £25m and sacked a manager who has us in the play-off places...if promotion isn't the target then what are we doing? The rhetoric around this sacking has been the most concerning thing about all of tonight's business. Clement sacking I can understand, but the reasons given for it and the presumption that we've got NO ONE lined up to replace him is seriously worrying. Fingers crossed for our football club. We could be in trouble. Next appointment is massive now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North_Stand_Ram Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 So bizarre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwram1973 Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I think he initially said this to take pressure off clement, it's obvious he'd want promotion, only an idiot would think otherwise. 90 odd mill for coming last?? yes please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I suspect we'll have to wait 15-20 years and the publication of a "no holds barred" autobiography for the truth to come out. in other words when there is no prospect of being litigated against. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papahet Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Mirror Sport understands Derby face a potential fine next season from the Football League under financial fair play rules due to their wage bill if they do not go up. Could be bs, but going up this season surely was the objection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Promotion was a by product of the continuous improvement of the squad, can anyone really say that's occurred? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDeadlySaul Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Just now, Papahet said: Mirror Sport understands Derby face a potential fine next season from the Football League under financial fair play rules due to their wage bill if they do not go up. Could be bs, but going up this season surely was the objection. Now we are paying all the compensation for sacking the staff and if rumours were true Clement was on massive wages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duracell Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Well if promotion was the aim, sacking him would be bizarre too - we're still more than in the race. If it was just the dull football, maybe he wouldn't be sacked. The football has been dire lately, but it's not in itself a sack-able offence - the Fulham game in particular wasn't a game where you'd expect the manager to lose his job. We've undeniably lost something in that team - how much of it is Clement's "fault", how much of it was just Clement building a new side, or how much of it was a shortage of confidence is up for debate. Clement wasn't getting it right, but it's such early days for him as a manager, and all the spiel from Mr Morris suggested he would be given time pretty much no matter what. Clement not sticking to Morris' vision. That's what we've been given as the reason. But while I believe that it is a factor in his sacking, there must be something else. And whatever it was, it must have happened very recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDeadlySaul Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 8 minutes ago, Duracell said: Well if promotion was the aim, sacking him would be bizarre too - we're still more than in the race. If it was just the dull football, maybe he wouldn't be sacked. The football has been dire lately, but it's not in itself a sack-able offence - the Fulham game in particular wasn't a game where you'd expect the manager to lose his job. We've undeniably lost something in that team - how much of it is Clement's "fault", how much of it was just Clement building a new side, or how much of it was a shortage of confidence is up for debate. Clement wasn't getting it right, but it's such early days for him as a manager, and all the spiel from Mr Morris suggested he would be given time pretty much no matter what. Clement not sticking to Morris' vision. That's what we've been given as the reason. But while I believe that it is a factor in his sacking, there must be something else. And whatever it was, it must have happened very recently. The style of football has been poor recently, but when we were on our good run of form that didn't seem to matter for Mel as he went out and said the Clement could be our Ferguson. Only when we went on 1 poor run of form we get the complaints about the style of play leading to his sacking. Either something behind the scenes happened or Morris has just had a big tantrum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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