MPH Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 Nigel Clough's woes at Derby are mounting after it emerged the cash-strapped club is up for sale and willing to sell any player.The Rams hierarchy are desperately trying to attract new investment into the ailing Championship club. They want to raise £8million by the end of this month to help meet various payments - including to former supremo Adam Pearson, now at Hull. But the club’s current US owners, General Sports and Entertainment, who acquired the Rams in January 2008, are reluctant to stump up any cash themselves. And Derby are now actively seeking new investors by giving a series of presentations about the club to potential shareholders. The Championship club has been put on the market for a reported price of just £30m. And in the meantime the Rams will listen to offers for any of Clough’s first team squad to generate funds. The club has been struggling financially since relegation from the Premier League in 2008 with just 11 points and an enormous wage bill. Now their directors’ salaries are believed to be among the biggest in the Championship. The uncertainty at Pride Park leaves boss Clough with more worries as Derby are just six points off the relegation zone. And there is speculation that potential new owners will want to bring in their own, more experienced, manager. But Clough’s close pal Stuart Pearce insists the Derby boss, in charge 12 months, must be given time after a rough baptism. England Under-21 boss Pearce said: “If you give someone a job and then cut their legs off by giving them no money to spend, it is very, very difficult in any walk of life, whether it is football or anything else. “Nigel has slashed the wage bill during that time and it’s important that everyone keeps a steady ship. “If you bring someone in with that proviso, you have to see it out. “You can’t just turn around after a year and get someone else in. “I’ve seen so many football clubs in the country that have a gut reaction, change managers and, all of a sudden, you are no better off in 10 years’ time. http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Derby...icle296073.html My initial reaction was to laugh and say 'shame really' and to laugh but the part about the foreign owners refusing to put in cash makes me think this could actually be us without MM - im sure he will be careful who invests but its also worrying that Derby's directors are getting paid so much...
Fosse Boy Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 Can't pretend to be unhappy about the sheep being in a bit of hot water...
MPH Posted 22 January 2010 Author Posted 22 January 2010 Can't pretend to be unhappy about the sheep being in a bit of hot water... might be their turn to be the east midlands club to be in the 1st division...
lou Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 but the part about the foreign owners refusing to put in cash makes me think this could actually be us without MM - im sure he will be careful who invests but its also worrying that Derby's directors are getting paid so much... Im not so sure!
MPH Posted 22 January 2010 Author Posted 22 January 2010 Im not so sure! if he meant to invest as to be a partner with him, he will be VERY careful... but if he means invest as in to sell the club to then he will be floating down the Khyber pockets full of pounds with a fat Cuban ( cigar) in his mouth before he even knowns their first name..
lcfc_jme Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 lol lol No sympathy whatsoever seeing as when the Yanks got on board they were loving it and predicting World Domination. This news could only be better if it were Forest, Stoke or MK Dons.
Guest Bilo Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 Let's be vultures and pick off the bones, if we don't someone will. Pick up Rob Hulse for next to nothing for a start. He might be a decent signing if he's cheap as this report seems to suggest. Shame DJ and Dickov will be back sooner rather than later though. I can't pretend I'm too upset for Derby to be honest, if you over-reach yourselves and get ideas above your station about becoming a regular Premiership club then you've only yourselves to blame. The problem is that the directors gambled with the financial wellbeing of a well-supported club and it'll be the fans who pay the price.
Guest Bilo Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 lol lolNo sympathy whatsoever seeing as when the Yanks got on board they were loving it and predicting World Domination. This news could only be better if it were Forest, Stoke or MK Dons. Yeah they seemed to think they'd got their own Abramovich when that happened. Quite amusing really. Unfortunately, Forest are owned by a fan and Franchise are owned by someone who spent the best part of his professional life trying to steal any club that he could to move to MK so this is unlikely to happen to either of them. Unless Forest get promoted, over-reach themselves and their sugar daddy turns the tap off as they're relegated.
lou Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 Get Savage in straight away.. I hope this is a joke
Spencer Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 I hope this is a joke Haha it definitely is.. I think! See how saturday goes
lou Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 Get Kris Commons in immediately. Hes the only one Id even consider worth getting in for his set pieces alone! Plus always likes to have a pop at goal from distance!
lcfc_jme Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 Yeah they seemed to think they'd got their own Abramovich when that happened. Quite amusing really.Unfortunately, Forest are owned by a fan and Franchise are owned by someone who spent the best part of his professional life trying to steal any club that he could to move to MK so this is unlikely to happen to either of them. Unless Forest get promoted, over-reach themselves and their sugar daddy turns the tap off as they're relegated. Yeah I know enough of their owner seeing as I'm constantly reminded of their success this season. Pretty annoying really and whilst they've got any realistic chance of doing well / until he goes into meltdown, they're sorted. As for MK, they will die. I'm confident they'll die. A few more seasons in League One and then relegation to League Two will aid that. I'd love them to implode and go right proper arse up. But for now, I'm going to take great pleasure in laughing at Derby County and hearing their deluded, simpleton fans harp on about how the Yanks have mis-managed their once-great club and how they should leave and they never wanted them in the first place.. lol
davieG Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 Let's be vultures and pick off the bones, if we don't someone will.Pick up Rob Hulse for next to nothing for a start. He might be a decent signing if he's cheap as this report seems to suggest. Shame DJ and Dickov will be back sooner rather than later though. I can't pretend I'm too upset for Derby to be honest, if you over-reach yourselves and get ideas above your station about becoming a regular Premiership club then you've only yourselves to blame. The problem is that the directors gambled with the financial wellbeing of a well-supported club and it'll be the fans who pay the price. As we did when Elsom & co got illusions of grandeur.
Fox You Forest Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 Get Kris Commons in immediately. Yeah he can keep Tunchev and Clemence company.
lou Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 Yeah he can keep Tunchev and Clemence company. He cant... I dont have room for anymore under my bed!
Heart-Shaped Fox Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 DJ is coming back then! Wouldnt mind Hulse and Commons if their going cheap!
Corky Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 Get Kris Commons in immediately. He's the one I'd go for.
Guest Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 The link on the Mirror site of this story seems to have been removed, couldn't see any other reports of it
Guest Bilo Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 Get Kris Commons in immediately. Only if he's cheap. Far too injury prone to warrant spending a serious transfer fee.
Tinman Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 The link on the Mirror site of this story seems to have been removed, couldn't see any other reports of it Cause it bollocks youth.
Finnegan Posted 22 January 2010 Posted 22 January 2010 It might not be a popular train of thought but I do feel sorry for their fans. I'm well on board with football banter and rivalries but to me there's a line to be drawn. This isn't about football, it's about football's morally corrupt business core and I don't really think we've got the right to sit and bemoan certain effects of capitalism in football (Man City, Chelsea, rocketing prices, dropping atmospheres and attendances, soulless grounds, whatever the pet-peeve is today) and then sit and giggle at clubs going tits up. Especially having had it happen to us. I'm sure there are Derby fans that pissed themselves when we went into administration and yeah they're likely dicks; but our financial crisis pre-dated the mass concern that's spread round football like a pandemic in the modern era. How many of them would be more sympathetic now? The twats will always be ever-present but I imagine a few more would spare a thought. Rivalries are for football. This isn't football, it's business, it's money, it's greed gone wrong. And it's sad.
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