Steve Gibson open letter to Derby Administrators

Zoophonic said:
Yes my guess is the bidders have agreed to pay the outstanding HMRC arrears as part of a takeover but cant put pen to paper on the agreement until the two law suits are also aldo dealt with. The Administrators probably cant disclose the nature of the potential buyers bids so possibly wont be able to answer in full the questions posed by SG's open letter in particular how the HMRC debt is being cleared. Indeed what a mess.
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If they have a preferred bidder, is there any reason they can't disclose who it is? I thought that was standard practice?
 
That shyster MM:

Former Derby County owner Mel Morris has given administrators two key assurances as they fight to save the club from liquidation.

In an update from the supporters' group Black & White Together (BAWT), it has been revealed that Morris has guaranteed the eventual preferred bidder a first option on the club's stadium.
That will come in the form of either a period of exclusivity or an option to buy agreement.

Morris has provided written confirmation of this to the administrators, it is said, and either scenario will kick in once the preferred bidder is named by Quantuma.

There have been further updates too, about how Derby is being funded and whether Morris is involved in that.
Morris has "not been directly asked" to contribute to funding the club until the end of the season.
BAWT continue: "However the club is not being charged rent on the stadium at the moment, and MSD have loaned money to help cover costs for the last 3 months, secured against the stadium, with MM assistance and consent."

** Please don’t shoot the messenger, just providing info.
Cheers
Blondz
 
Zoophonic said:
Yes my guess is the bidders have agreed to pay the outstanding HMRC arrears as part of a takeover but cant put pen to paper on the agreement until the two law suits are also aldo dealt with. The Administrators probably cant disclose the nature of the potential buyers bids so possibly wont be able to answer in full the questions posed by SG's open letter in particular how the HMRC debt is being cleared. Indeed what a mess.
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And yet Derby fans would rather vent their anger at Gibson and Wycombe rather than Doctor Eggman who wouldn't even pay his tax bill.
 
BlondzDCFC said:
That shyster MM:

Former Derby County owner Mel Morris has given administrators two key assurances as they fight to save the club from liquidation.

In an update from the supporters' group Black & White Together (BAWT), it has been revealed that Morris has guaranteed the eventual preferred bidder a first option on the club's stadium.
That will come in the form of either a period of exclusivity or an option to buy agreement.

Morris has provided written confirmation of this to the administrators, it is said, and either scenario will kick in once the preferred bidder is named by Quantuma.

There have been further updates too, about how Derby is being funded and whether Morris is involved in that.
Morris has "not been directly asked" to contribute to funding the club until the end of the season.
BAWT continue: "However the club is not being charged rent on the stadium at the moment, and MSD have loaned money to help cover costs for the last 3 months, secured against the stadium, with MM assistance and consent."

** Please don’t shoot the messenger, just providing info.
Cheers
Blondz
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So he’s pretty much stolen your stadium and now wants you to buy it back from him? Very magnanimous of him
 
Cheers Blonde DCFC

I am glad from your implied comments that you feel MM is the real source of DCFC's problems.

"That will come in the form of either a period of exclusivity or an option to buy agreement". at a price of £80m probably going on what has happened before.

I do feel for genuine Derby County fans, but all football clubs fans need to be protected from their clubs going under. The FL has a giant role to play in checking financial records in current form not historic and even agreeing budgets for player wages (total).

I get the impreesion MFC and WWFC are very willing to settle reasonably with the preferred bidder, but no bidder (or administrator) is willing to communicate.
 
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indeedido said:
The Mail article is penned by the odious bulbous Martin Samuel. This is a man who wrote two autobiographies for Harry Redknapp.
I think that tells us all we need to know about this man.
His article is extremely lazy journalism, befitting a man so fat he can barely move.
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To me, writing an article about this situation without mentioning Mel Morris' name at all suggests that he has some connection with him, too. Dodgy as they come.
 
BlondzDCFC said:
BAWT continue: "However the club is not being charged rent on the stadium at the moment, and MSD have loaned money to help cover costs for the last 3 months, secured against the stadium, with MM assistance and consent."
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sounds scarily like more debt incurred to Michael Dell, and more risk of the stadium not returning to Derby County's control?
 
If I was Steve Gibson I would tell the Administrators that I am prepared to accept a compensation payment of £1 on two conditions:

1 Mel Morris states on the public record that he knowingly and deliberately circumvented the FFP/PaS constraints specifically to gain a footballing advantage for DCFC and the unfair advantage so gained directly aided DCFC to attain the final play off place; and

2 Mel Morris must apologise for his action
 
BlondzDCFC said:
I guess it all started with Brian Clough & Don Revie (both ferociously competitive Boro lads) back in the early 70’s.
Cloughie’s DCFC side pipped Don Revie’s dirty Leeds team to the Division One title in 1972 on the final day of the season! So that didn’t go down well. Especially as it consigned Leeds to the 2nd place (runners up) for the third consecutive season. Oh dear.

The two Managers always had a bitter war of words, both in respective local media and on national TV too.
Cloughie was in particular quite scathing in his attacks, branding Leeds & Revie’s style of play as ‘dirty’ and ‘cheating’.
Whenever the two teams played each other, the games would always have an edge to them, turning violent & hostile. This applied to the players on the pitch and the two sets of fans as well.

Then when Revie went on to be the next England Manager, Cloughie replaced him at Leeds Utd for the infamous 44 days in charge in 1974!
Revie subsequently failed as England Manager whereas Cloughie went on to lead the red-dogs down the A52 to two European Cups.

More recently there was the Bielsa ‘Spygate’ incident in 2018 (I think) where, before an upcoming game he sent someone to peep thro the bushes on the main road outside our training ground,watching our team train & possibly tactics too. Lol. Ya couldn’t make it up.

HTH a bit?
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Hi Blondie, it's been a while(y) Wow, are they still feeling the Clough thing? They have long memories.There's no love lost between Middlesbrough and Leeds fans so I'm surprised at their attitude but then who don't they hate? Clough and Revie were both very effective in their own different ways but off the pitch you got far more bang for your buck from Brian. He was a one off and I could listen to him all night.
Revie cultivated the dirty Leeds thing. When Jack Charlton was Boro manager he said that at Leeds, before big games Revie would get the team to gargle with whisky before they took to the field and then immediately get right in the faces of their opponents, breathing liquor fumes to promote the image.
 
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